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@cookie197 The topping up strategy with the woodburner will work just fine. Since you will want most of your heat in the living room, a wood burner...
@cookie197 Morning, You will need a hot water tank, but be careful about the 'standard' variety. HPs need a bigger heating coil or a heat exchanger...
I think there are a couple of important factors to add to cathodeRay's assessment. Since your house is well insulated, your heat losses will be low an...
Update: Installer has given me the required permissions to set Time of Use on the battery. He had to create a sub company under his company and put me...
@declan90 Ive done some digging and it just looks like a permissions issue as suggested by this website however my installer hasnt sorted it yet ...
Hi Andrew, i dont have any experience with Danfoss heat pumps, but I am a landlord and being unhelpful isnt really an option he has. He is responsible...
Hi, I have recently had a Huawei solar and battery system installed to suppliment an existing old PV system. I have to say Im very happy with them and...
@declan90 Hi Declan. On the face of it, it sounds like your granny annex might be a good contender for an air to air heat pump. relatively inexpensive...
Well you should have heat loss calculations for the rooms really, but your insulation looks healthy. One advantage though of bigger rads is you can us...
@steven I have recently installed a 5kW Samsung and use open energy monitor to monitor it. I have started integrating things with home assistant and w...
@ianmk13 The pipework replacement was easier for me as I live in a bungalow. Your house does sound better insulated than mine so maybe you could get a...
@ianmk13 Sounds as if you have a lot of the same issues as I had. in the end i changed the 10mm pipes for 15mm and upped several radiators. I ran the ...
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