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@bontwoody and @toodles - I am not comparing apples with rabbits or bananas with boomerangs for that matter, just making a simple point that, as I hav...
At the risk of sounding like a stuck record, this is is so important, that it bears repeating. In raw terms, heat pumps are about three times more e...
I think that sounds like a good empirical approach, but I am not sure my old oil boiler could be controlled to that extent, ie a low flow temp, as it ...
Your persistence does you credit. I had many problems, but for different reasons, with the whole process taking over a year from deciding to go for a ...
But don't forget what happened to me: seemingly not great changes necessitated by the way heat pumps work (chiefly, pivot (the word one loves to hate)...
I think you may know my answer (none of them, hence the suggestion we are both indulging in whatiffery. The government is just plain old deluded). R...
Sorry, should have quoted sources: Installations: the annual numbers come from the European Heat pump Association (a trade body) and (I should have ...
Eeek! Also not quite the done thing to a listed building, but of course they are very much in the minority.
Consider this situation, that just happens to happen in a period of remarkably stable weather conditions: one day, I run the heating all the time, LWT...
Yes, but is also running for less time, and the two may cancel out, partly or wholly. This is in its way partly another way of explaining my paradox: ...
I think this is the nub of the whole thing. This is why I all but said at one point (deliberately provocatively, to provoke discussion) that heat pump...
I couldn't agree more, which is why I have sought clarification from @filipe on the statements of his that baffle me. Indeed in science, it is often t...
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