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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, 1 week ago |
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| The circus surrounding the heat pump journey is at the centre of my new book, Britain’s Heat Pump Shitshow: How Installing a Heating System Became a National Nervous Breakdown. It is not an attack on ... | ||
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RE: Mitsubishi Ecodan FTC6 settings
By Clockworks, 1 week ago |
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| OK, I bought one of the dongles q couple of weeks ago, finally fitted it this morning. Powered up the FTC6, and was a bit surprised that the heatpump fired right up, despite the Mitsubishi remote stat... | ||
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RE: Wood burner with ASHP - direct air?
By JamesPa, 1 week ago |
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| @lucia FWIW installed a woodburner some years ago. The combustion air is drawn from the underfloorboard space through a vent near the burner. I cant feel a draught (because the burner itself is pr... | ||
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RE: Vaillant service impasse
By downfield, 1 week ago |
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| I would say definitely by registered snail mail. Emails are easy to ignore but a registered letter addressed to the CEO or equivalent senior person would need to be signed for and is much more likely ... | ||
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RE: Starting Our Heat Pump Journey: 1962 build 3 bed detached house
By JamesPa, 1 week ago |
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| @ian-s I can understand where you are coming from but I do think that, particularly given what you have already told us, the risks are being overstated. There are basically 3 recurring errors that w... | ||
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RE: Wood burner with ASHP - direct air?
By BlizzardGreen, 1 week ago |
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| Yes I get that but regs were not my main concern. I grew up in an old house with thick stone walls and one source of heat, in one room. A black stove, we called it "the range" it was similar to the at... | ||
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RE: Vaillant service impasse
By Batpred, 1 week ago |
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| Before I had my Vaillant heatpump installed, I made sure the installer would be able to service it yearly. I am of course lucky that we have been able to find a Heat Geek that installs and has been se... | ||
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RE: Wood burner with ASHP - direct air?
By Morgan, 1 week ago |
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| @blizzardgreen So far as I recall, a vent is only, per regs, required for an above 5kw burner. | ||
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RE: Vaillant service impasse
By Mars, 1 week ago |
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| @davidb I can’t help you with contacts at Vaillant unfortunately. They’ve had a lot of staff turnover this year, and I’ve not connected with the new people, but keep us updated on your comms please. | ||
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RE: Starting Our Heat Pump Journey: 1962 build 3 bed detached house
By Mars, 1 week ago |
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| @Ian-S, I actually think this is a pretty reasonable place to have ended up after doing a lot of research. There is an awkward truth with heat pumps; some parts of the design are based on assumptions.... | ||
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RE: Starting Our Heat Pump Journey: 1962 build 3 bed detached house
By Old_Scientist, 1 week ago |
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| Have you considered keeping your FF boiler and supplementing it with an A2A heat pump (that can also provide cooling in summer). You could run it overnight on your cheap EV tariff to preheat the house... | ||
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RE: Starting Our Heat Pump Journey: 1962 build 3 bed detached house
By Ian S, 1 week ago |
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| After looking and numerous videos and reading loads of thoughts and comments on here as well as reading The Ultimate Guide to Heat Pumps it appears to me there is still too many wet fingers in the air... | ||
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