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Life after Heat Pump-Cold
People who designed and installed system have gone belly up! I'm after something of a rarity, and that is someone who can look at system, give me their opinion, and give me a solution to our problem. House is approx 230m2, 4 bed all en suite. Heat pump Calorex AW12002AHY Air/Water (12KW) heat pump. Solar Panels to assist…
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A few pointers please on stove install
Okay, we're going for our installation this Sunday. We've had a pre-fit visit from the building inspector and he's happy with hearth etc so we're going to actually install this Sunday. if there are any fitters here who can give any tips on the following we'd be very grateful! My Charnwood has to be 3" from the rear wall.…
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When can i light stove after cement/plaster work?
We got our stove opening sides (sides directly beside the fire cemented on Monday of this week, the plaster on the chimney breast was done yesterday (Wednesday). We want to paint this all at some stage, but obviously we want to wait tilll it fully drys but would it be ok to still light the stove. I was thinking sunday for…
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lpg delivered by mistake!!!
Hi, I rarely post on websites but I really need some advice... Around six or seven months ago I moved into rented property with my girlfriend. As we had over 65% in tank I have not needed to refill so have set no contracts up. Yesterday a truck turned up and the driver started filling the tank. I was at work but my gf was…
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modena 80e
please someone help i have the above gas central heating fitted and just cant figure out how to set it to timer. i have in past had 4 heating engineers from the housing association i rent from, come out to ask theri only for them to say they dont know either. i have had the page on the timer bit downloaded from net and…
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Warm air heating, excessive useage
Good Afternoon MSExperts, Apologies if this is in the wrong section but I've seen a few other warm air heating posts in this section. Just moved into a 2 bedroomed flat flat, it has a huge fridge/freezer sized warm air heating unit with ducts in each room. Been doing a bit of research in the things as have never used one…
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Yes! Stove being installed before crimbo!
Thank goodness we've found someone to install our stove the week before christmas! At least we'll be nice and warm instead of freezing like we are at the moment! I'm not botherd wether we're decorated or not as long as we've got some heat! :j
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External boilers & frost protection - do you have a pipe stat fitted?
Hoping for some wisdom from folks with external boilers which are sited directly outside (eg. in insulated boxes) rather than in unheated spaces (eg. garages, boiler houses, etc). We recently had a Grant Vortex PRO fitted outside the house: it is installed flush against an external wall with the pipes running directly into…
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New house heating and hot water questions
Hi, I have moved from a house with a combi boiler to a house with a water tank upstairs. The new house has 4 bathrooms, but at the moment only 2 are used. Here are my questions... 1) For enough hot water for 3 showers in the morning (7-8am), what time should the hot water be turned on and for how long for? 2) Is it better…
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HELP is this oil usage normal???
Have just moved into my house on Nov 18th it was unoccupied previously, put 1100 litres into new central heating system beginning August and have only run heating properly since moving in, previously was ticking over on minimum settings. Noticed unbelievably last night "Watchman" control was flashing empty!! Is this rate…
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Communal heat pump kWh cost
Hi, Hopefully a simple question regarding kWh costs in heat pump installations!.. I live in a new build apartment building which has an air source heat pump system installed that provides a source of hot water for the underfloor heating. Each apartment has a heat meter that measures the amount of heat transferred through…
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HELP Please
We are just in a rented 2 bed bungalow We need to buy heating oil I have just been searching web and pirces seem to be min 500l but I cant afford 300 plus quid upfront What can I do? the house is freezing and I have 2 babies. Please help me xx
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Heat Pumps - Pros and Cons
We have 6 holiday houses to heat. In 2010, 2 on LPG, 2 pure elec., 2 heating oil. End 2011, 1 LPG goes to 1 full air/water heat pump (Sdeec) to take advantage of UFH. 1 LPG gets an electric immersion tank, and a cheap air/air heat pump as supplements. Both pure elec. get cheap air/air heat pumps as supplements. 1 heating…
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Can I sell back unused heating oil?
I'm moving into a property that has an oil fired boiler, I am having gas connected and a combi boiler to replace it. The question I have is can I sell the unused oil back to the oil suppliers or is there a company that specialise in collecting it? I've googled it but to no avail.
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Tiles for hearth
Hi Can anyone tell me what kind of tiles I should use for my hearth? I am having a 8kw multifuel fire installed and want to tile thehearth and where the fire is going to stand. Cheers Jen
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Post your stove pics here...
I seen a pic of w50nky stove on another thread and thought it would be good to post a pic of all people's different stoves to see their style. I should be able to post a pic by Wednesday of next week :dance:
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Open coal fire newbie here
we are about to move into a new house with open fires in living room and dinning room. I have never had my own fire (Yipee) just visted other green with envy, however I have NO CLUE on what I need. Okay I know I need fuel but should I use newspaper or firelighters? coal or wood or something I don't know about do I need…
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Help!!! I hate my Stovax Stockton 5 MF
I wonder if anybody out there can help me? Recently had installed my stove by HETAS engineer. However we seemed to be burning logs very quickly, about 35 mins each, high jets of air coming in and no controls despite shutting everything down. HETAS guy has been back, and wood rate is now about 1 hour +, so that's great. He…
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Looking for an honest wood burning stove installer
Can anyone help out with an honest wood burning stove installer in North east Scotland (AB53 area). I have had some absolutely crazy quotes to install a twin waller liner to a bungalow without a chimney - nearly £4500. They all want to make mega markups on the kit which you can get delivered for £100's cheaper if you buy…
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Thank you mods!
Thanks to the mods for our name change - and thanks to High Risk for making the suggestion!
