Last seen: Sep 4, 2025
I’m back, well Vaillant called me a week ago at which point I explained I was still waiting for the electrical works to be rectified. They said they...
@jamespa having just had a heat pump installed I do wonder if the increases in grants are just being absorbed by installers, I saw this when solar the...
@jamespa hmm sounds like a case of suppliers profiteering then. Wouldn’t be the first time, anyone old enough to remember how much the car makers were...
@jamespa yeah I’m only showing the min wage we’ve set as a country not for individual trades. I’m surprised they are saying an electrician only gets £...
@downfield I think the reason we pay more is import duties VAT and a high min wage. For comparison Germanys min wage is £11.05, France £10.23, ours is...
@downfield unfortunately due to a low income I only look at roi. When I had solar installed back in 2014 the FIT was one of the main drivers. I consid...
Apparently when you apply to connect an inverter to the grid they can impose both an export limit, which I entirely understand, and a total inverter a...
@saenergy for me I feel the powerwall gives me for flexibility as it can change its inverter output without me having to buy another inverter. Also Te...
@old_scientist one installer who wanted to use sigenergi and 2 8kwh batteries was also going to fit 1.875kwp of solar on the garage roof where the bat...
@old_scientist mainly just add a battery so I can make the heat pump equation work when argued against a gas boiler. How does the gov expect people to...
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RE: Ecodan software update. Real or scam?
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My Samsung Gen6 (probably same controller as yours) onl...
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@drei When I was in local government we were of cours...
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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House
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RE: Flexi-Orb Heat Pump Scheme: A Game-Changer for the UK's Heat Pump Industry
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RE: Solar Power Output – Let’s Compare Generation Figures
1040kw Even beat June and July. Great month.
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RE: New Vaillant aroTherm Plus in black - When will it come to the UK?
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RE: What crazy nonsense are inverter limits and why are they imposed?
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RE: Octopus tariffs - a quick comparison
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RE: Electricity price predictions
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RE: is a home battery without an EV worth it?
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@mars That response surely deserves a nomination for Tu...
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Specifying batteries, pv solar etc using ChatGPT
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RE: Ecodan & MelCloud scheduling
When I interviewed Mitsubishi Electric at Installer ear...
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RE: Rodents! A word of warning for heat pump owners
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