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RE: ASHP Retrofit in a 2015 house with 10mm radiator tails

I had a number of installers take similar positions. They are jobsworths, hiding behind regulations. Solution? Fire them.

3 years ago
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RE: ASHP Retrofit in a 2015 house with 10mm radiator tails

It's a minefield. In fact the whole thing is a minefield. As I have said before I prefer using a correction factor, ie you down rate the rads outpu...

3 years ago
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RE: What's your current daily damage?

As it happens, I have been a fairly close eye on things for the last week. First up, context. Three bed leaky old building in Southern England. Hour...

3 years ago
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RE: ASHP Retrofit in a 2015 house with 10mm radiator tails

I wonder if this is something we don't give enough consideration to. I too have noticed my heating takes a very long time to reach temp, sometimes mea...

3 years ago
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RE: ASHP Retrofit in a 2015 house with 10mm radiator tails

@alistairgbarron - I had similar painful hoops to jump through, and had the additional constraints caused by a small listed building, the listing limi...

3 years ago
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RE: ASHP Retrofit in a 2015 house with 10mm radiator tails

I had a few installer quotes based on the MCS software. They didn't get the job. Good that you are double checking things, typos are easy to do.

3 years ago
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RE: ASHP Retrofit in a 2015 house with 10mm radiator tails

@alistairgbarron - sorry, I see now that you are already well ahead of the game on the calculations. I also got a bit confused by the thread/post re-a...

3 years ago
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RE: How many installers do you think have heat pumps at home?

Then the next even more interesting question might be: "Would you still have installed a heat pump if you hadn't been bribed sorry 'incentivised'?" Th...

3 years ago
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RE: ASHP Retrofit in a 2015 house with 10mm radiator tails

Indeed. A good rule of thumb is a ASHP with a highish leaving water temperature (say 50 degrees, which means a delta t (difference or delta, between w...

3 years ago
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RE: Measuring your COP

To which I might add, if you aim low enough, sooner or later you will shoot yourself in the foot. That is what sooner or later the industry will find ...

3 years ago
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RE: Measuring your COP

@julianc - thanks. I agree, but perhaps more often than not, there isn't a real engineer directly involved. My system was in effect designed by ...

3 years ago
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RE: Measuring your COP

That's not the same thing, as your comment makes clear: the 35, 40, 55 etc are arbitrary vaguely ordinal numbers (could just as easily be 3 4 and 5 or...

3 years ago
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