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@chandykris A noble ambition! I was hopeful my house would be energy positive, but buying an EV has scuppered that 😀
@toodles I dont know how I ever managed to find the time to fit work in! 😆
@derek-m Thanks Derek, thats an interesting way of looking at it.
@johnmo Well thats very clear, just wondering really if you had a big tank it could take 2 hours to heat. on a cold wet day it would seem likely that ...
@johnmo Thanks for clearing up the matter of defrosts during DHW cycles. I was just guessing really. Wouldnt it be more likely though that the HP woul...
@chandykris I know people who had had IR panels and they found them effective. My worry would be the running costs, unless you only heat the room you ...
@jancold Ive never heard of a ASHP not starting because the temperature was too high. Perhaps someone else on here might know if that was possible? ...
@chandykris 👍. They should sort you out. I’m very impressed with Szymon‘s videos.
@chandykris Im late to the party here, but from your description of the property, a 14kW heat pump seems rather large. Using the heat geek cheat she...
@jancold The only reason i can think of to suggest using the immersion in summer would be to turn the heat pump off completely to avoid its standby lo...
@jeff Im a great believer in nudges. If the price of electricity was lowered to more closely reflect its production costs, that would be all the incen...
@davidalgarve Lol no problem re the name. I done some back of the fag packet calculations and if you were heating your tank from 35 to 50 C each day...
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