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RE: Question for ASHP installers: What proportion of your initial surveys/ site visits follow through to an installation?

The last time I heard mention of the customer journey was from an ASHP installer who took me on a journey to hell and back, until I fired them in Dec ...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: 14kW Midea ASHP in an old leaky building

Another way of looking at the small differential is that it supports the idea they are the same units, the small differential is just there to make th...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Designing ASHP system using the Freedom toolkit spreadsheet

@hughf - it is definitely on the cards, but I haven't quite got to the Oscar Wilde moment yet ('either the PHE goes, or I go') as I am still a bit in ...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: 14kW Midea ASHP in an old leaky building

@hughf - it also shows they charge £246.35 for flipping a few dip switches!

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Designing ASHP system using the Freedom toolkit spreadsheet

You may have seen the discussion on these, both in the thread I started about my installation, and elsewhere. One interesting point is that Freedom ch...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Designing ASHP system using the Freedom toolkit spreadsheet

@editor - not sure where to post this here seems as good as any other place, as this thread is about using spreadsheet calculators. FWIW, this is my m...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: 14kW Midea ASHP in an old leaky building

It certainly is, and interestingly, it clearly shows the model number nominal output (the number in the heat pump model name) is downright misleading....

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Designing ASHP system using the Freedom toolkit spreadsheet

Yes (its what I use). You need to do some hackery to the spreadsheet (google is your friend) and then open it in LO Calc, select all the cells in the ...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Designing ASHP system using the Freedom toolkit spreadsheet

@hughf - Welcome, others more august will also welcome you soon as well. Be aware the Freedom toolkit spreadsheet is not perfect. It is good, and wa...

3 years ago
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RE: Worcestershire ASHP

@julianc - it will be interesting to hear what they actually do. I think the only specialist thing done during routine Midea servicing is checking the...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Worcestershire ASHP

I struggle not to think of the servicing rituals as nothing more than money for old rope, a nice cash machine for installers. Making warranties condit...

3 years ago
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RE: Reina Colona column radiator experience

I wonder if the Reina Colona column rads have a larger directly heated surface area? Looking at the three column version, each section has three water...

3 years ago
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