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Last seen: Oct 2, 2026
I have UFH downstairs and 3 rads and towel rail upstairs, the gas boiler used to be upstairs so it had the air bleed system with it. ive had the sys...
@adamk my system has on on flow and return at highest point above expansion tank, and 3 others on other pipes in the system room
I have a Heat Pump, so on the Cosy Tariff I get 7h at 12p, 3h at 36p and the rest at 24p. i have 5kW off batteries and Solar, from April to November...
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 ...
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The installer visited yesterday and suggested the noise...
By JamesChatz , 9 minutes ago
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RE: Heat Geek installations: share your experiences
I struggled with this problem as well. An independent t...
By L8Again , 44 minutes ago
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RE: Heat pump branding. Clever, contemporary… or a bit too much?
I am not here to defend Heat geek or anyone else, but I...
By JamesPa , 54 minutes ago
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RE: HeatGeek vs Octopus surveys: puzzling disparity - any ideas why?
Your house sounds a lot like mine. 2 surveyors each sp...
By JamesPa , 2 hours ago
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RE: Heat Geek Zero Disrupt: Are We Sleepwalking Into Another Race to the Bottom?
Thats true only if you do the wrong experiment. Done c...
By JamesPa , 3 hours ago
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RE: How should the Boiler Upgrade Scheme be reformed?
@temperature_gradient Isn't that just describing a regu...
By Prunus , 3 hours ago
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@etchedpixels I thought about that too, and between ...
By RonV. , 6 hours ago
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RE: battery storage without solar
As of October 1st they need specific qualifications to ...
By EtchedPixels , 16 hours ago
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RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News
With regards to the BUS grant raid, I gave it more thou...
By ASHP-BOBBA , 17 hours ago
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RE: Why are ASHP installs so expensive?
The whole system seems to work on the basis of...
By ian33a , 17 hours ago
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RE: Missing flow temperature in Heat Geek proposal
Good plan. If you can get half hourly meter readings a...
By JamesPa , 23 hours ago
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RE: Heat Pumps Without Grants: Would You Have Installed One & Will You Now?
@editor Most certainly. The heat pump was an ideal s...
By Abernyte , 23 hours ago
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RE: Does anyone have experience of a smart water meter?
Yep I caught our slow leak from a £100 bill rise 8)
By EtchedPixels , 23 hours ago
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RE: Do You Need a Buffer Tank or Low Loss Header for Underfloor Heating in a Large Property?
@jamespa in some cases, failing the Turing test might b...
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