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Renewable Heating Hub Homeowners' Q&A Podcast
@lucia, I appreciate the feedback, and we’ve received a lot of positive feedback about the format. It certainly is more “natural” in person versus online recordings.
We’ll try to do more with Richard over the course of the autumn and winter.
🔥 Britain’s Heat Pump Shitshow
How Installing a Heating System Became a National Nervous Breakdown
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📗 Heat Pumps Explained
A Jargon-Free Guide for Homeowners
Rewritten and updated for 2027
📘 From Zero to Heat Pump Hero
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The Homeowners' Q&A podcast is back... I've changed the format and have decided to one-on-one. Here's the latest episode, focusing on overpromising and misleading heat pump claims.
Topics covered:
→ The kW badge: why the number on the side of your heat pump is almost always a best-case figure measured at conditions that rarely exist in a British winter
→ "Your radiators will be fine": how zero and minimal disruption installs are creating a new generation of homeowners with rooms that never come to temperature
→ Buffer tanks: why they're still being slung in as standard, what they're actually costing you in efficiency and when they're genuinely needed versus when they're a sticking plaster for poor design
→ "Cheaper to run than gas": the electricity-to-gas price ratio and whether this claim can ever be made honestly
→ Warranties: why homeowners routinely don't know if they're covered for two years or ten... and whose fault that actually is
🔥 Britain’s Heat Pump Shitshow
How Installing a Heating System Became a National Nervous Breakdown
Free UK shipping.
📗 Heat Pumps Explained
A Jargon-Free Guide for Homeowners
Rewritten and updated for 2027
📘 From Zero to Heat Pump Hero
🛠️ Bodge Buster
New to heat pumps?
Take the Heat Pump Fundamentals course and use INTRO50 at checkout for 50% off.
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