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ASHP running costs can go up massively when the average daily temperature drops near freezing, defrost cycles start kicking in, and the house heating ...
@marvinator80 if your Grant installer has used external 3rd party time clock for daily HW cycle and external 3rd party thermostat for CH control, they...
@marvinator80 great all is installed and running. I have set the cylinder stat to 50degC, which requires the ASHP to provide water at 55degC. It usual...
@parmstar Great, les us know how you get on. Piping on your circuit is simple enough, and with a hybrid bivalent system I can see the LLH being of ben...
Is it the radiator side of the LLH that's not reaching temperature? Or does the heat pump monitoring show it's not achieving 50degC supply temperature...
@morgan that one has me scratching my head. First heard of this scheme on the Martin Lewis programme. Until late October I was off mains gas with heat...
Hi @Denevil, OK, the low rate overnight tariff is a good reason to generate HW overnight, if not the most thermally advantageous time. Defrosts are an...
Hi @Denevil, just reading this, I'm probably a month or so further on my Grant ASHP system journey, 10kW Aerona3 and 150m2 EPC C house. It's a learnin...
@marvinator80 for internal pipework, yes. for external, no. Needs to be thicker wall, minimum 19mm (3/4") and weather/water and UV resistant skin. Som...
We get very cold weeks like this 4-6 weeks of the year. When I first started researching ASHP, I realised it would be more expensive than kerosene, my...
Quite a bit of coverage over on LinkedIn about this one. And so the race to the bottom begins. Price driven installs seldom hit the required quality a...
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