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RE: Are Octopuses Slowing Consumer Adoption of Heat Pumps?

@ianmk13 Yes radiators will need replacing, most if not all. Many of them were installed 30 years ago and the plumber basically guessed the sizes when...

7 months ago
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RE: Are Octopuses Slowing Consumer Adoption of Heat Pumps?

A Heat Geek installer came to assess my house today. What a difference from the other surveys, as in the professionalism displayed. He was here for 3 ...

7 months ago
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RE: My horrific Samsung heat pump installation and experience

Dropped into to a newly opened Energy Support Hub run by volunteers this morning to see what they had to offer. There was already someone in there bem...

11 months ago
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RE: Are Octopuses Slowing Consumer Adoption of Heat Pumps?

@gunboatdiplomat A little more complicated. I have one small room that is entirely solid wall, one large room with one wall run that is about 15% soli...

11 months ago
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RE: Are Octopuses Slowing Consumer Adoption of Heat Pumps?

@jamespa I agree it's sensible - now I know what their strategy is and it's not just a huge error. As I posted earlier they will be offering a much la...

11 months ago
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RE: Are Octopuses Slowing Consumer Adoption of Heat Pumps?

A final ‘No’ from Octopus. Apparently they accept that I might have a heat loss of 10w but their software is not able to distinguish the subtleties be...

11 months ago
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RE: Are Octopuses Slowing Consumer Adoption of Heat Pumps?

@gunboatdiplomat That’s good news and a good price as well - I’m only faintly jealous. My indicative quote came out at £6200 (including an unvented ho...

11 months ago
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RE: Are Octopuses Slowing Consumer Adoption of Heat Pumps?

@ivanopinion Octopus have told me they will have a Cosy 16 next year capable of delivering 50c and will cover the alleged 14kw heat loss - if I’d like...

11 months ago
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RE: Are Octopuses Slowing Consumer Adoption of Heat Pumps?

@jamespa I’ve challenged Octopus’s figures using the very helpful comments from this forum. They’ve come back and admitted that the heat loss might no...

11 months ago
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RE: Are Octopuses Slowing Consumer Adoption of Heat Pumps?

@jamespa - great idea. I’ll download the data. @gunboatdiplomat - yes similar house. Mine is detached, 160sqmtr, 300mm plus insulation, double glaz...

11 months ago
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RE: Are Octopuses Slowing Consumer Adoption of Heat Pumps?

@ivanopinion and @jamespa. I do have the half hour readings (but then so do Octopus). However I’m going to have one last go. Today I called a local fi...

11 months ago
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RE: Are Octopuses Slowing Consumer Adoption of Heat Pumps?

@jamespa My actual gas usage is 16500kwh & electricity 3500kwh. My survey assumed a heat demand of 19200kwh. So a heat loss of 14300w? It can’t be...

11 months ago
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