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RE: PV and battery long payback - sense check query
By Batpred, 5 days ago
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| A really nice way to put it! Even if it is not much consolation when I look at the more than half a dozen certificates and the like for our install. Not even counting manuals! Agree, the pace is no... | ||
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RE: Flushing system, cleaning and inhibitor
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| While skim reading a manual for our Vaillant HW tank, I saw they are quite funny about not using glicol on the system, I'd expect similar or even more prescriptive rules for the Arotherm. Not sure if ... | ||
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RE: Is it the house or the equipment?
By Batpred, 5 days ago |
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| We have experience with an aircon unit that doubles in as a heatpump. As it is 20 years old (R410!), we do not have any monitoring data on consumption, etc. Essentially a mono split for a medium size ... | ||
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RE: Is it the house or the equipment?
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| Thanks @jamespa. I share an aversion to blown hot air. I finally found a good YouTube video on how to site the indoor units so I'm less worried now Mini Split Location. | ||
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RE: Is it the house or the equipment?
By JamesPa, 5 days ago |
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| Ther are many on here who are very knowledgable about A2A and some of the questions you ask are better answered by them. I will offer the following. True I think. As you say A2A systems are princip... | ||
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RE: Heat Pump Books For Beginners: The Ultimate Guide to Heat Pumps, Bodge Buster, From Zero To Heat Pump Hero & Britain's Heat Pump Shitshow
By JamesPa, 5 days ago |
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| Of course, what do you expect, human beings are human beings ie mostly selfish, and will thus exploit any opportunity they see ruthlessly. The skill/challenge for government is to design any interven... | ||
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RE: Heat Pump Books For Beginners: The Ultimate Guide to Heat Pumps, Bodge Buster, From Zero To Heat Pump Hero & Britain's Heat Pump Shitshow
By Bart, 5 days ago |
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| (between calls) @jamespa agreed. Look at FCA reform. My take: we have to embrace the fact that this industry has relied upon grant schemes in order to develop and realise/address those repercussions. ... | ||
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RE: Heat Pump Books For Beginners: The Ultimate Guide to Heat Pumps, Bodge Buster, From Zero To Heat Pump Hero & Britain's Heat Pump Shitshow
By Mars, 5 days ago |
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| @bart thank you for weighing in, and I am sorry that after 19 months your installation is still being shaped by the very shitshow we are discussing. I think policymakers could indeed learn something ... | ||
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Is it the house or the equipment?
By springswood, 5 days ago |
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| I have a traditional 2 bed terraced house built in 1911. I have seen in a few places comments that the layout is not well suited to air to air heating. I'm beginning to think that's back to front. May... | ||
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RE: Heat Pump Books For Beginners: The Ultimate Guide to Heat Pumps, Bodge Buster, From Zero To Heat Pump Hero & Britain's Heat Pump Shitshow
By JamesPa, 5 days ago |
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| Its clear that 'strengthening oversight 'is a stopgap measure. Probably more a case of (a) being seen to be doing something and (b) an opportunity to collect intelligence that will inform the long t... | ||
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RE: Heat Pump Books For Beginners: The Ultimate Guide to Heat Pumps, Bodge Buster, From Zero To Heat Pump Hero & Britain's Heat Pump Shitshow
By Bart, 5 days ago |
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| @jamespa as you rightly say they have indeed, below are some of the changes: DESNZ has publicly stated that, pending longer-term reform, it has already strengthened direct oversight of the existing ar... | ||
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RE: Heat Pump Books For Beginners: The Ultimate Guide to Heat Pumps, Bodge Buster, From Zero To Heat Pump Hero & Britain's Heat Pump Shitshow
By JamesPa, 5 days ago |
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| Well yes, except that as we see heat pump insurance, a product of the finance industry not the heat pump industry, doesn't really work (unless the householder is very persistent) notwithstanding the f... | ||
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