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RE: Octopus Cosy Heat Pump Owners & Discussion Thread

@wreckguru That was my thoughts as well (although a £12k difference in price). Have you tried running your Cosy by upping the requested temperature ...

9 months ago
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RE: Octopus Cosy Heat Pump Owners & Discussion Thread

@editor Well, myself as well. I think it would be great if you could get someone from Octopus to talk to you about their technology and design decisi...

9 months ago
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RE: Why does an ASHP provide a more comfortable environment than a gas boiler?

Actually, I think the issue is the different rate of heat loss of rooms when the system is on/off. If the heating doesn't stay on long enough to brin...

10 months ago
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RE: Why does an ASHP provide a more comfortable environment than a gas boiler?

It was more of a "Why does this house still have cold rooms when we've just spent £6.5k?" sort of explanation! She wouldn't be interested in the twea...

10 months ago
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RE: Why does an ASHP provide a more comfortable environment than a gas boiler?

A bit more info. The Cosy App has the Target Temp to reach, and an internal temp measured by the Primary Pod sensor positioned somewhere in the house...

10 months ago
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RE: Why does an ASHP provide a more comfortable environment than a gas boiler?

It's difficult of course as a customer to challenge beyond showing them the historic data and whilst being informed, not being an expert in this stuff...

10 months ago
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RE: Why does an ASHP provide a more comfortable environment than a gas boiler?

You can adjust flow temperatures as shown in my image on an earlier post but have no access to anything more granular. Octopus would have to do that....

10 months ago
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RE: Why does an ASHP provide a more comfortable environment than a gas boiler?

Sorry, my mistake. For heating, it was a total of 8937kWh and for hot water it was 2221kWh. This was gas usage figures for Feb 24 to Jan 25 taken fr...

10 months ago
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RE: Why does an ASHP provide a more comfortable environment than a gas boiler?

I don't really know what I should be expecting to see as it's the first time it's been used for heating. Last night was around 5c here; I'm trying to...

10 months ago
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RE: Why does an ASHP provide a more comfortable environment than a gas boiler?

I'm posting my experience really, and my confusion: it is cycling on/off rather than running continuously so to me it looks like it is operating no di...

10 months ago
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RE: Why does an ASHP provide a more comfortable environment than a gas boiler?

Distinctly possible as it wasn't really feasible to test more than the radiators weren't leaking and some heat could be felt. I did agree with Octopu...

10 months ago
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