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Post by crowsfoot on Feb 9, 2023 9:17:58 GMT
Just watched this on power flushing and my question is "do the public actually fork out hard earned cash for someone to fuck about like this"? I know what my old gaffer in the 70s would have said about it! Yes they do and adding to that pay a small fortune to. I'd feel very uncomfortable if I had ever been called to a boiler breakdown and brought that testing kit in with me. Feeling like a double glazing salesman fresh from the training course. It's all getting a bit too daft now! |
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Post by crowsfoot on Feb 9, 2023 9:28:10 GMT
Insulation definitely is the key to saving money on our heating bills. Having any type of heating on at all is useless because the heat will rise and escape very quickly with no insulation. (although the latest idea of insulating all pipework in the property both hot and cold pipes seems like overkill to me). Regarding Weather Compensators; having worked on the plumbing side of heat pump maintenance I quickly learned not to switch that "Economy Button (weather compensator)" on because it would get you an instant re-visit back to the property the next day because the customer would complain that the radiators are now not hot enough! The people making these new rules and regulations don't have to deal with the public after they've been implemented. Ah, this is the ‘Hearth Effect’ of heating CF…..All in the Head Heating I call it. It’s like back in the day, you’d sit around the Coal Fire & get Spit Roasted. You’d sit & watch the Flames dance, while getting third degree burns on your legs!! The rest of the Room was perfectly warm, but you needed to sit at the Fire. It’s the same with ‘Low Temperature’ central heating, the room can be 21°C & the radiator at 50°C, but the radiator is not hot!! It’s all about changing peoples’ Hearth Effect brain. Standard Specification in a Large National Builder’s New Builds; Ideal Boilers & Weather Compensation. Guess what, the Outdoor Sensors are never wired into the Weather Compensation terminals on the Boilers. This for the exact same reason you stated. If we cannot get passed this state of mind I cannot see this technology ever being a success. |
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Post by dickpuller on Feb 9, 2023 21:49:56 GMT
Our Dining Room in Puller Towers;
Olive wanted Panelling on one of the long walls, so I removed a Radiator. The Panelling was down & decorated.
After me suggesting various Radiators, all of which would require lifting & refitting some of the Hard Wood floor. To alter pipes.
She then wanted the radiator moved to another wall. To which I explained that would mean lifting a lot of the HW flooring!
So, the upshot is we still have only one radiator in the room & an undecided outcome.
Christmas comes along & having Xmas dinner in the 16°C Dining Room. This room also has a big wall mounted Telly in it.
So Dick goes on Utube & has a Log Burning video running on the Telly.
Not one person having Dinner said it was cold in that Room!!!
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