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Yes, their gas typically costs twice ours and electricity is often cheaper than ours. So the maths work differently. Plus perhaps their homes have mor...
Whenever the BUS grant comes up for review, it makes sense to change it. I suppose one radical option would be to adjust the cost of gas to account fo...
Just curious, is this a new build, a BUS install or something else?
I had a battery and inverter installed a while ago, my payback is just a few years, as I did not go for the MCS accredited staff, etc. It requires som...
Really happy with octopus. I do not remember being with anyone else tbh. I second toodles on the ethos and customer service is excellent. They h...
Yes, and I would suggest likely to get worse with more apps and road condition challenges. I must say our heatpump install was unusually precisely ...
This topic seems more suitable for this thread... I agree with the above, this is clear and particularly in the first few weeks of the year are very...
It is clearly difficult to say, there must be cases where good work and efficient sales processes are leading to good return, which is not a bad thing...
Agreed. There´s another aspect that could eventually provide an incentive. The ratio of electricity to gas prices. If this is reduced, then we coul...
A great discussion, clearly a wide range of additional costs for a heatpump install vs gas boilers: from Building, Design, Electrical/Controls, Equipm...
I am not sure I agree that most HP buyers do not know much. And nothing tells me they are less likely to know what they want to buy than someone buyin...
@ian33a great point on the estimating software (and potentially the heat loss software). I have the sense that this enables a lot of sales - as the...
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