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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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 Ian S
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Topic starter 16/08/2026 8:12 pm   [#3138]

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, guess work and assumptions. We want to reduce our carbon footprint and having solar, battery and running 2 EV’s has done that but at the moment my confidence in heat pump installations is now very low. So for now I will continue to watch from a distance, I still have a heat geek installer doing a survey on Monday so will be interesting to get his thoughts.

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 Old_Scientist
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16/08/2026 8:26 pm  

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 and let the FF boiler take over at times electricity is more expensive. Whilst it may not immediately remove all your FF use, it may significantly reduce it whilst leaving the FF boiler for DHW and a bit of extra heat on the coldest winter days. A hybrid system, if you will.


Samsung 12kW gen6 ASHP with 50L volumiser and large radiators. 7.2kWp solar (south facing), Tesla PW3 (13.5kW). Net Zero


   
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