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I'm designing a wood-fired hot tub installation. I'm hoping to use solar panels to drive the filter pump and for excess panel power to add a little background to the water. (For the ecologically-minded, water will be harvested from the house roof or from our spring, which supplies the house. We...

Found Smart View, took a while. It's not actually smart enough to find my Samsung TV on the same network though. Are Samsung just rubbish at this sort of thing?

TV tells me to connect a cable when I select HDMI, but cable is already connected. It's hard to lose the screen telling me connect, too: the two options are Connect or See Connection Guide. There's no backing out of it. Annoying.

Thank you, John, this covers it admirably :) Will work out my system volumes and see what comes out.

In heating home and DHW with a boiler stove, it would help to keep an eye on boiler flow temperature, buffer tank temperature and HW temperature. I'm not keen on a bank of digital readouts in the lounge, but I wouldn't mind a bank of steampunk style brass dial temperature gauges :) However, two...

I have a Windows 11 laptop, and I have a VPN running on it to watch UK TV while living in Spain. I now have a smart TV (Samsung Q60CA QLED) which I'd like to run from the laptop, because the smart TV itself doesn't (I imagine) support VPN location shielding. The TV is across the room and I...

@muggles Uncontrolled heat source, sealed system, bang... This stove is approved for sealed use. It has a mains-fed cooling coil on an overheat valve (AST in Spanish, not sure in English) and a pressure relief valve on the boiler top. Spanish law prohibits header tanks. I did fit one though...

My back boiler stove states max pressure is 1.5 bar, for a sealed system. Is this going to be the max static (ie, cold) pressure, or the max pressure ever, ie, when hot? If it's the max ever pressure, it's going to be a struggle to keep it this low! If hot max pressure, I'm thinking to set the...

It's serialized! Hit Return too early :(

Sorry, hit return and posted... ..... Because the header tank was there, I used it for the secondary system, but the flow and return run at floor level in the loft, with the header tank in the roof space. There's only 2.5m between the flow and return pipe level and the header tank level, so I...

I'm installing a wood-fired system, and using a header tank for the stove's primary circuit to a buffer tank, gravity driven. That's working fine, flow temp 80°, return 60° with a buffer temp of 50°. The secondary system, with the radiators, is problematic. Because the he

LH thread!!! Why?

I have bought seven aluminium CH radiators and find in all of them I can get the 1" bushes and rad tails in one side of the rad but not the other. The 'other' side, the LH side on all rads seems to be cross-threaded: the bush or rad tail starts to go in on a slant and cannot be straightened. It...

Can I ask those experienced in uncontrolled heat sources if my plan for my wood boiler stove central heating system is sound, please? I am a little out of my depth. Although sealed systems seem preferred, I’m opting for a vented system because we have an unreliable electrical power supply and I...

Thread posted by accident, please ignore, see my other query... admin, can you delete, please?