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Thats how my PV works, it says on the CU to isolate the array in the loft if doing any work on the array, or Id guess doing that at night would be saf...
@toodles Mercaptan is added to Gas as a way to identify leaks, as Gas leaks were hard to detect and a few bad explosions have occurred with undetec...
i had the gas pipe terminated out side the house in the rabbit hutch style housing. The meter and regulator were removed and a seal fitted on supply...
@jamespa I have a friends EV parked on my drive for the summer as he likes to drive his MX5 when its sunny. If I could hook that up to charge at 7p...
@majordennisbloodnok your summary is along same lines as I was thinking, pcp on a car is for those who can afford it and dont want to own a car b...
@majordennisbloodnok balcony solar panels are available in UK, search Amazon for them, here’s a site specialising in them
Definitely. i had heat calcs for my rooms done, a small bedroom was assumed to be an office, so surveyor assumed 21C reqd temp. In operation, this r...
Being with Octopus, I’m paid 15p for any exported kWh, so cheaper to use HP to warm the DHW than Immersion Heater. Octopus also advised setting DHW ...
I applied for the first wave of PV, when they fitted the panels for free and kept the FIT, but was turned down as my roof doesn't face South. I’ve g...
Took a while to find on the OFGEN site: ”The FIT scheme has been closed to new applicants since 1 April 2019; however, it will remain part of bills ...
@editor FIT rate is determined by OFGEN, for a typical 2-4kW home system installed in 2010 on medium tariff, yes it’s that complex to work out your kW...
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RE: Rate the quality of your heat pump design and installation
Ah the gift that keeps on giving! Finally getting aroun...
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Ordering up the materials to install another 5 panels o...
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RE: Who do I complain to about a poor ECO4 installation, can anyone advise?
Well I have levelled out all the thermostat settings to...
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RE: Octopus Cosy Heat Pump Owners & Discussion Thread
Ok. This was a thread I started!
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RE: MCS Quality Audit – Has Anyone Had One? Did It Lead to Remediation?
So under part G or the G3 rules you have a responsibili...
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I intend to replace the Plex pipework in the area of my...
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RE: Electricity price predictions
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RE: Air-to-air heat pumps - best models and installers
Are you creating a whole new category for A2A?
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RE: A2A vs A2W: Which Heat Pump Would You Pick?
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RE: Can anyone explain the following behaviour with a Grant Aerona 3 R30 / Smart Controller?
Final Update. Yesterday, I was going through the moti...
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RE: How much can an east/west solar solar system be oversized?
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RE: Selling 2 x Kensa Shoebox 7kw GSHP (New)
Hi Jain, we’ve got an ashp so I’m afraid we won’t be yo...
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No buffer or low loss header Grant controller in sens...
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RE: Are We Sleepwalking Into Another Race to the Bottom?
That's an amazing job to get all that in there! A truly...
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RE: Anyone concerned about GivEnergy?
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RE: Plug and play solar. Thoughts?
I am also yet to find a case where an installation that...
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RE: British Gas vs Octopus Energy vs Heat Geek vs EDF vs Aira vs OVO vs EON.Next vs Boxt
This is what I got from OVO. At least it was quick.. ...
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RE: IVT greenline HT Plus E - Circulation Pump Constantly On
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RE: 7.5kW Heat Loss, But Quoted a 10kW Midea. No Re-Pipe, No Buffer Tank. Does This Add Up?
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@jamespa Someone who is not easily phased I suppose.
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