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We tested the away mode for the first time as we were away for five days for a holiday. Interestingly, the temperature dropped to about 18 degrees and...
Looks like this issue is now resolved. Aira installed a K3 radiator, with 20% more output, and now the temperature is holding steady around 19.5 degre...
I would look at it as £9.5K vs £11.5K or £15.5K instead of £2K vs £4K or £8K after excluding the BUS grant. Psychologically, that feels easier to comp...
February.stats are now in. This was our first full month with an ASHP, so I was really looking forward to the results. To set the context, this Februa...
@callum_62 That does sound excessive. We are in a slightly older new build, around 12 years old, 4 beds (and a study) and three reception rooms includ...
@njt Same here. We have 6.9 solar and a 6.5 kWh Growatt battery. Since, I switched to cosy after the heat pump install, we fill up the battery thrice ...
@vsmith1 We switched from an EV tariff to cosy tariff after the heat pump installation. We run hot water twice a day during the cheap period, one hour...
@vsmith1 I too took saw that today. Pretty chuffed with heating CoP of 4.2 and hot water CoP of 3. Especially, when the weather was particularly cold.
@broadsman That's a good shout. I can't see the flow data, but can see input power and delivered heat by hour. Also, can track input electricity on th...
Really interesting thread, thanks for the insights everyone. We recently had an Aira heat pump installed, and straightaway I realised that we need t...
@andrewj Earlier with the gas boiler and Tado TRVs controlling the temperature, I used to think 18 is the right temperature. As otherwise the room use...
@mikeh It's running on an off peak schedule now. To be honest, I don't see a drop in COP. There was only 10 minutes of hot water left yesterday night,...
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