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While skim reading a manual for our Vaillant HW tank, I saw they are quite funny about not using glicol on the system, I'd expect similar or even more...
We have experience with an aircon unit that doubles in as a heatpump. As it is 20 years old (R410!), we do not have any monitoring data on consumption...
Before I had my Vaillant heatpump installed, I made sure the installer would be able to service it yearly. I am of course lucky that we have been able...
Given the typical price and effort involved in servicing, I would imagine that this is generally a great retainer for installers. In a less accessible...
Not many people consume overnight, so as a principle it is a safe bet… Probably the reason Octopus does not bother if Go users have an EV.
I meant to say I cannot register my kit at Energyplus… Solis also has AI, I tried it six months ago but it was overkill for my needs. It does read ...
For some odd reason I cannot even register for that. The Q&A makes very clear that it is a dedicated energy management system and no other syste...
In our case, we constrain the charging level etc using the charger app and that still works. Our (unrelated) annoyance is that the car charger is no...
yes, same with the IOG tariff which is even a bit harder to implement. It does create odd situations where IOG can charge the car at a very cheap rate...
@sttpd1917 @l8again When we had it commissioned the decision was to leave it at an optimistic 0.5. The plan is, when the weather cools, we will a...
We selected and bought most of the rads. Most were fit by our usual plumber, and one by our heat geek. The HG quotation process appears to be very i...
Having just had an install by HG which i am very happy with, I gave you say I was not impressed with their heat loss calculations. Given the survey da...
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