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@kev-m yes, that's exactly what I am looking for, I've searched around online but can't find this info.
@derek-m a Vaillant engineer came out today. We've reduced the speed of the UFH pumps and left the radiator pump on a faster setting. We think the byp...
@derek-m do you have a typical % heating/dwh usage for each month? Would be helpful to do some projected costs for the year based on Dec/Jan usage. Th...
@alec-morrow @mattengineer @mike-patrick @derek-m How appropriate are these types of valves on a ASHP heating system installation? I don't fully...
@mattengineer Interesting, I read the manual and there is a setting to basically tell the vrc 700 to ignore the internal temp from the unit. I guess t...
@derek-m thanks. This is starting to go beyond my technical capability so think I'll need to await the developers heating engineer to investigate, but...
@alec-morrow I wondered this too, a Vaillant rep suggested to me it normally comes down to cost (or value engineering as it is often referred).
@alex-morrow our UFH zones have a manually set mixer (currently set to 50c - so largely redundant), if these were set to 22c or somewhere in that regi...
Hi @derek-m, I made the school boy error of not noting down the Kwh usage before changing the settings. I took an energy consumption reading earlier t...
@mike-patrick thanks for the message - how might I check if this is the case?
@spdtdl just learnt how to tag! Sorry, meant to do so in reply with questions above.
Just quick message of thanks to everyone for their help so far. Cheers, it's appreciated.
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