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Effect of solar on a ber

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  • 26-06-2020 10:19pm
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    bobboberson
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    Hello folks

    I am wondering if any one has a rough idea of the effects of solar thermal on a ber.

    Ber is currently c2 on a 3 bed semi.

    Anthony


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    Yellow_Fern
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    It is pretty complicated because a reader had no access to the original report. When was the BER done? what year was the house built? See a big factor in these reports if you have default values used. Airtightness is a good example. I suspect you have a default airtightness value, its possible that you house had excellent airtightness and you could boost the BER more by hiring a blow tester than getting solar. It is possible that your house has very poor airtightness too and a blower test downgrades the BER.


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    bobboberson
    Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭bobboberson


    Yellow_Fern wrote: »
    It is pretty complicated because a reader had no access to the original report. When was the BER done? what year was the house built? See a big factor in these reports if you have default values used. Airtightness is a good example. I suspect you have a default airtightness value, its possible that you house had excellent airtightness and you could boost the BER more by hiring a blow tester than getting solar. It is possible that your house has very poor airtightness too and a blower test downgrades the BER.


    Hey the house was built in 1993 the report was done about 3 years ago.

    We are having the solar thermal installed in part because we had to replace alot of the hot water system in the house


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    sydthebeat
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    bobboberson wrote: »
    Hello folks

    I am wondering if any one has a rough idea of the effects of solar thermal on a ber.

    Ber is currently c2 on a 3 bed semi.

    Anthony

    it will make it better

    the margin of this is down to the specifics


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