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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House
By dgclimatecontrol, 2 weeks ago |
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@jamespa and my weakness is new cars and vans! But we don't smoke, drink or go on holiday. | ||
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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House
By JamesPa, 2 weeks ago |
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I never buy new cars! 3 year old low mileage Niro, £k21. Somebody else can take the initial depreciation! Heat pump 6k after grant. 4kWp solar 14k (in 2011 - they were very expensive back then, but... | ||
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RE: Electricity price predictions
By JamesPa, 2 weeks ago |
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Which is another reason why renewables are such an existential threat to big oil, they can't control them because you can generate renewable energy almost anywhere, it's distributed not centralised. ... | ||
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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House
By JamesPa, 2 weeks ago |
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@dgclimatecontrol @drei There are some numbers for embodied carbon here from a source that is likely to be realitively unbiased. Whilst it us true that a heat pump has greater embodied carbon than... | ||
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RE: Electricity price predictions
By JulianC, 2 weeks ago |
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Another free hour of electricity if you are an Octopus customer (some caveats) 31st August at 2-3pm. As I’m on Octopus Agile Go, I get a free hour for the cars at any time. My Octopus referral code ... | ||
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RE: is a home battery without an EV worth it?
By Old_Scientist, 2 weeks ago
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Similar situation here (we have a PW3 and ASHP+solar), with a strategy of using Octopus Cosy during the winter with the battery allowing us to achieve all our import at the Cosy cheap rate. Without a ... | ||
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RE: How Do I Know When the Hot Water Has Run Out?
By Transparent, 2 weeks ago |
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@grahamf - it's going to make our discussion a lot easier if we had more temperature data. At present you can buy six(!) digital thermometers with remote probes from Amazon for £8.49,plus a set of LR4... | ||
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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House
By dgclimatecontrol, 2 weeks ago |
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@drei Your unfortunately so correct about the carbon footprint. Ive been in the industry that I'm passionate about for nearly 50 years, a boiler is cheap fairly simple and easier to recylcle or repl... | ||
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RE: Getting the best out of a heat pump - is Homely a possible answer?
By cathodeRay, 2 weeks ago |
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I missed your 22nd June post on this. I am sure it can be done in HA as well, but I use a standalone script that runs once an hour, checks the IAT and moves the weather curve up or down a bit if the I... | ||
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RE: Getting the best out of a heat pump - is Homely a possible answer?
By benson, 2 weeks ago |
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Back on topic, with our clivet I now have everything set up for pure weather comp when the heating season kicks in. Our homely is uninstalled and back in the box for the time being, and will hopefully... | ||
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RE: How Do I Know When the Hot Water Has Run Out?
By Judith, 2 weeks ago |
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I love the concept of two tanks in series since it is the best possible stratification! You will probably find the recirculating pump is your worst enemy and you will effectively be heating the house/... | ||
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RE: Seeking Help for In-Principle Quote to fix a botched heat pump installation by Heat Geek Installer
By benson, 2 weeks ago |
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Now posting on the right topic.... With general building/home improvement works, we the consumers would ordinarily take steps to protect ourselves from poor workmanship. Fundamentally this comes down ... |
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