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 Toodles
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07/10/2025 2:02 pm  

@majordennisbloodnok Emm, it is not very often you see the word ‘trumps’ in an article about clean renewable energy!😉 Toodles.


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07/10/2025 2:05 pm  

I think we need to distinguish simple from standard.  For sure installations differ, sometimes markedly, because houses differ.  Also for sure there are miscellaneous onsite issues to solve.  That doesn't necessarily make them complicated though, it just makes them different.  A installer that can't deal with the differences isn't an engineer, he is a fitter, trained to do a few things well by following instructions and using acquired skills, but not necessarily to think deeply.  Put another way he is a poor installer (in the way we use the word ie encompassing design, specification and fit) suited to executing designs that have been made by others, but quite possibly he is a good fitter.

By using the word complicated, or avoiding the word simple, we shroud it in mystery, which gives the poor installer licence to use BS to fool us into thinking he knows something ordinary mortals never can, whereas the real problem is that he can't actually explain what he is doing or why.  Please don't afford him that luxury.

 


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4kW peak of solar PV since 2011; EV and a 1930s house which has been partially renovated to improve its efficiency. 7kW Vaillant heat pump.


   
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07/10/2025 2:12 pm  

@editor The season to start inviting prospectives to ‘Visit a Heat Pump’ is almost upon us again, (our doesn’t need to run during the summer as DHW is separate) and though in the past I have kept off the subject of recommending an installer, perhaps I should revise this? Having had a good experience with our install, suggests that we should celebrate the good eggs so that others may be assisted to avoid some pitfalls. Toodles.


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