Recent content by sophiecentaur

We recently moved into a house with UPVC windows. Most of the windows are hinged at the top. It would be much more convenient if some of those could be changed to have hinges along the sides. I am wondering how much of a pain that job could be. Are there a whole range of hinge standards from...

Could be the Starship Enterprise on the screen. Set phasors to stun.

Keyring? From a secret location?

So which side of the fence are you? You can only afford to instal TRV based systems but you 'understand' more complex ones. People all over the place are buying Nest, Hive etc. so why can't you consider going that way or even just discuss the idea sensibly? Don't forget that I cannot know what...

You don't need a consultation fee if you are going to instal TRVs. The client pays the gas supplier for the next twenty years. You could, perhaps try the DIYConsultancyMarketing Forum and find how to sell your extra knowledge at a profit. No need, whilst clients are comfortably ignorant of just...

I'm afraid that message means little to me. (Written so fast? that your typos are confusing) If a DIY forum is not able to disseminate information about advanced ideas than what do all the Photography / Radio Ham / Medical forums do? Here you go again with the idea of slow metering of...

There is a very similar diagram in the second of my two references, which deals with the temporal response of a number of different systems. Your picture could have been posted a hundred posts earlier and then I wouldn't have 'assumed' anything about your knowledge. If you meter out the...

I get the impression that you would rather have a personal argument than get to any sensible conclusion for my original query. I am not assuming that there is a very negative attitude to anything but standard CH systems. That can be found in the majority of posts here, along with a good...

That's good and I wasn't judging you - I was judging your attitude (at least,your apparent attitude); I would not be "surprised" because I made no assumptions but reacted to what you have written. If I have read it wrongly then I apologise. You are one of several contributors to this thread and...

Mmmm. And how would you know? A few hours on some vocational courses would not allow you to judge one way or the other, I'm afraid. Did you try reading those links I posted about 50 miles back?

I want a 'better' way to do the job with the system I already have. I've already found that wireless control is flexible and that's why I like the idea of wireless control and 'proper' valves, which give good proportional control. I imagine that those two links I gave went down really well and...

So you felt insulted by the fact that, not knowing anything about you, your qualifications or your experience, I asked for some evidence to cover your statement. Would you take something I told you without evidence? (clearly not) If you read all the posts in this thread (no - I wouldn't wish...

This thread is full of useful snippets and there is clearly a lot of specialist knowledge about CH systems. I am grateful for what I have learned. But we could have got to this point a lot quicker if people had read my earlier posts with a bit of empathy and sussed out what I really needed to...

No. It's basic control theory that's been around since long before Wiki was invented. If you know nothing about control theory then don't knock it. ("Drivel" = " I don't understand it"?) Can I give you some references? Ignorance is, of course, excusable but being proud of it is not.

I am impressed that. at last, someone has actually come up with the fact that some heating engineers use temperature monitoring. It has taken more than 70 post for that piece of information to come out. Rag Tag and Bobtail seemed to think that temperature measurement is only for wimps and they...