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Monday, 5 May 2025
Monday, 9 September 2024
Vaillant AroTherm Plus 7K cooling
I like many other have had installed the cooling resistor.
And like many others have had issues getting it to work.
This is a collection of others suggestions to getting it working
Cooling needs to be enabled on the ASHP controller too. In my case that is via the Unitower panel’s “installer level/configuration/cooling technology/“ setting which should be “active cooling”.
I think I have found the issue!
There is a setting called ESCO (Energy Supply Company) under “Settings > Installer > Installation”
This was set to “Cooling Off”. It was my understanding that ESCO was used by electricity supply companies to disable curtains appliances if there was an energy shortage. It would appear that this is not the case or doesn’t work as settings the ESCO setting to Cooling Off disables cooling on the AroTherm Plus.
“ Define what you want to deactivate when the signal is sent by the energy supply company. The selection remains deactivated until the energy supply company cancels the signal.
The heat generator ignores the deactivation signal as soon as the frost protection function is active.”
On another note does anyone have any good experience setting up cooling for Underfloor heating with a 100mm concrete slab?
Minimum Flow Temp. Etc etc???
We have natural wood floors so I am a little concerned about condensation which could cause the floors to cup ( warp)
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Monday, 2 September 2024
Heat pump service
had my vailent areotherm serivced and look what was found in the catch filter.
no wonder the flow rate was low but not quite enough to stop the heatpump from working.
Monday, 25 September 2023
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
Meal out
So today we popped into The Lodecka pub for a quick meal in the garden as after partial lockdown easing this is as much as one can do
Sunday, 29 March 2020
Virtual Tours
Museums
- Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Louvre Museum Paris
- Salvatore Dali Museum, Figueres, Spain
- Smithsonian, Washington DC
- Museum Of London Docklands
- National Gallery, London
- British Museum, London
- Natural History Museum, London
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States
- Musei Vaticani, Vatican City
- Tate Britain, London
- Met Museum, New York
- MASP, Sao Paolo, Brazil
- Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
- Musée d’Orsay, Paris
- National Gallery Of Arts, Washington DC
- Picasso Museum, Barcelona
- Virginia Living Museum
- Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
- Yale Centre For British Art
- Royal Academy Of Arts, London
- The National Museum of Computing on Bletchley Park
- Women's History Museum, Virginia, USA
- National Museum Of US Air Forces
- The Museum of Flight
- Anne Franke Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- US Holocaust Museum
Tourist Destinations
- The Great Wall Of China
- Street Art with Google
- Taj Mahal, Agra, India
- Stonehenge
- Colosseum, Rome
- Northern Lights
- Tour of Rome, Italy
- Buckingham Palace, London
- Pyramids
- Machu Picchu
General Sites
- AirPano
- ExoPlanets Nasa
- Walt Disney Parks
- Legoland
- Wellcome Collection
- Berliner Philharominker
- Langley Research Centre, NASA
- The Kennedy Centre
Zoos
- National Zoo, Washington DC
- Hirakawa Zoo, Japan
- Atlanta Zoo
- Melbourne Zoo
- Cincinnati Zoo
- San Diego, California, Zoo
- Osaka Zoo
- Edinburgh Zoo
- Yellowstone National Park
- Florida Aquarium
- Dublin Zoo
- Kansas City Zoo
- African Animals
- International Wolf Centre
- Explore.org Live Cams
- Flamingo Land
- National Aquarium, USA
Tuesday, 11 June 2019
Tuesday, 30 April 2019
Tubular Bells For Two
So here to see Tubular Bells For Two

Seen these before in reading. Never actually got to see the show as not had anything to eat all day and that was starting to make me feel ill. So we ended up the the hole in one in parkstreet instead.
So next time !!!
Seen these before in reading. Never actually got to see the show as not had anything to eat all day and that was starting to make me feel ill. So we ended up the the hole in one in parkstreet instead.
So next time !!!
Friday, 19 April 2019
HELLS BELLS!
We are here at the hen and chicken to see Hells Bells!
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They were quite good from what I seen we left a little early due to other factors
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They were quite good from what I seen we left a little early due to other factors
Friday, 12 April 2019
Vauxhall insignia mooing sound
So my insignia makes a mooing sound rather like others have described.
So ordered a replacement part from my local Vauxhall dealership on the 12-04-19
as there are so many numbers and replacement recommendations. This is what they gave me and is the latest replacement part.
So ordered a replacement part from my local Vauxhall dealership on the 12-04-19
as there are so many numbers and replacement recommendations. This is what they gave me and is the latest replacement part.