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Having had a brief read through some of the comments, it seems very clear to me that swapping to a HP as a distressed purchase if your gas boiler brea...
Toodles makes a valid point. How many people care about the efficiency or installation quality of their gas boiler, let alone the noise (whic...
I only switched ours off yesterday. As the nights were a little chilly, it was nice to wake up to a warm house. During the day it switche...
@batpred My wife was not interested at all and certainly not when she had to move out with the children for a week during the install. Thankfully...
@batpred BG said they'd like just one radiator off a 15mm run, 2 at a push, any more and they'd prefer to re-pipe. It was impossible to tell with...
@batpred Our BG gas install from survey, to handover and a visit a month later to do some extra re-pipe work was fantastic, I'd absolutely...
@batpred If you want it done properly, fitted by a decent installation team and run efficiently and effectively ,it will almost certainly be more d...
@batpred My HP was fitted on the same wall as my gas boiler and existing megaflo cylinder, the primaries are less than 2m. It certainly wasn't no...
@markspencersmith "Thinking on this, I have to agree with a guy I saw who concluded this is tosh. Open all the lockshields fully. Smart TR...
@editor I too had a long list of questions, some of which I pulled from your book. The sign of a good installer is they are more than happy to di...
@madsid I don't quite understand what extra you need to do to protect the cables? Surely there is already enough in place. I.e you have appropr...
This was a reasonably cold day with the heat pump running quite hard. We got close to exhausting our 45kwh storage, with only a tiny amount of peak ne...
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