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@transparent it’s quite correct that there are documents that fill you full of confidence that your installer will do a good job or else. But if you h...
@ellyse I think Mitsubishi are decent pumps and I’m sure the ecoden may be linked with your existing boiler to provide a backup. My heating engineer s...
@ellyse I’m on octopus and initially flux because I had batteries. 17 pence per kw from 2-5am now since I have an EV charger I’m on Go and it’s 7p pe...
@transparent it’s a 20 tube panel and at least 4 tubes damaged. They don’t like being moved and today whilst talking to jack at stoves and solar that ...
@transparent no they were a concept in America but went bust due to bad management. The theory was that the sun could produce electricity at any angle...
What do you guys think of these panels, were they, are they any use. A bit of an innovation at the time, or a plug.
@transparent they wont fit those designer rads, I had a load of them and had to bin them, they said the heat efficiency was poor, but mine had no conv...
@ellyse the requirement for my installation was to have 10mm gaps under all the doors to allow circulation and trickle vents fitted to the windows. Co...
@toodles it’s akin to growing tomatoes , big expectations, you get a few, then next minute they go and die on you. What next they get blown off the r...
@transparent 0.1 of those mystical things that solar panels produce but evading both myself and toodles currently. However I’m in the wrong place agai...
Have you got your average winter production for last year, perhaps it might cheer me up.
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RE: British Gas vs Octopus Energy vs Heat Geek vs EDF vs Aira vs OVO vs EON.Next vs Boxt
Oh My, average installation is 15k inc Grant so £7500 t...
By ASHP-BOBBA , 14 minutes ago
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RE: Help Right-Sizing My Grandmother's Heat Pump: Installer Says 12kW, I Think It's Oversized
Quite possibly all wrong. Get other quotes or regret ...
By JamesPa , 21 minutes ago
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
That's amazing. Would love to just run our heat pump du...
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Having seen that latest photo, I'm inclined to agree wi...
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RE: New Vaillant aroTherm Plus in black - When will it come to the UK?
What does this include? 3K is well ott. Check midsumm...
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RE: A2A vs A2W: Which Heat Pump Would You Pick?
It seems R32 will start being phased out in 2027. For h...
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Sigenergy Battery Storage System
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RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News
Our quotes have been simple to interpret in terms of th...
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RE: Rate the quality of your heat pump design and installation
@keithb If you would like to start a thread describing ...
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RE: Electricity price predictions
@toodles Exactly my own thoughts when I read about this...
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RE: How much can an east/west solar solar system be oversized?
@editor , we managed to avoid the cowboys. This is a bo...
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RE: Who do I complain to about a poor ECO4 installation, can anyone advise?
Glad the heating is changed. Monitor and tweak if nece...
By JamesPa , 13 hours ago
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Without a detailed analysis of the hydrodynamics I woul...
By JamesPa , 13 hours ago
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RE: Octopus Cosy Heat Pump Owners & Discussion Thread
@agentgeorge no idea if they’ve made changes, but I got...
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RE: Say hello and introduce yourself
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RE: MCS Quality Audit – Has Anyone Had One? Did It Lead to Remediation?
So under part G or the G3 rules you have a responsibili...
By ASHP-BOBBA , 1 day ago
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RE: Air-to-air heat pumps - best models and installers
Are you creating a whole new category for A2A?
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RE: Can anyone explain the following behaviour with a Grant Aerona 3 R30 / Smart Controller?
Final Update. Yesterday, I was going through the moti...
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RE: Forum updates, announcements & issues
Thank you Mars for all your dedication to improvements;...
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RE: Selling 2 x Kensa Shoebox 7kw GSHP (New)
Hi Jain, we’ve got an ashp so I’m afraid we won’t be yo...
By Judith , 3 days ago
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No buffer or low loss header Grant controller in sens...
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RE: Are We Sleepwalking Into Another Race to the Bottom?
That's an amazing job to get all that in there! A truly...
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RE: Anyone concerned about GivEnergy?
Thanks for your advice - I'll keep trying with the inst...
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