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Renewable Heating Hub Homeowners' Q&A Podcast

Mars · 2024-08-21T13:46:17Z

Show of hands please. This autumn and winter, we’re considering hosting online masterclasses where we’ll invite 2-3 experts to discuss everything you need to know about heating systems, heat pumps and more. These sessions will be interactive, giving you the chance to ask questions directly to the experts, getting answers and different perspectives in real time. Would you find sessions like this of interest and helpful. Let us know by dropping a comment below.

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Topic starter 19/10/2025 8:28 am

@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.

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Topic starter 03/06/2026 4:41 pm

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