Last seen: Sep 3, 2025
@adamk apologies if my comments appeared thoughtless and I should of course have qualified my final point with "and provided you have suitable funding...
I must confess to not understanding the need to justify the business case for investing in renewables. What other capital expenditure is subject to t...
Coincidentally I had my solar / battery installer back today to amend the wiring to allow a manual switchover to island or off-grid mode in the event ...
Yes - I had my eye on a Tesla charger just N of Norwich at 52p/kWh, but our plans changed and it was no longer on our route.
I agree that range anxiety goes away after a few months with an EV, and I am now OK with running the SoC down below 10% on longer trips. But it's no...
I use the MELcloud app only to set the time schedules for heating. I vaguely remember the installer saying use one or the other, not both. I have a...
A few comments: 1 MCS - my solar/battery installer wasn't accredited initially and I couldn't open an export tariff with Octopus until they were. ...
Very interesting! I have noticed that the Octopus meter reading department and the tariff department don't exchange data because I have been on Agile...
We have a regular water meter which was installed when the property was converted in 1991. After about 10 years, the meter failed and was replaced. ...
As I have reported elsewhere, we replaced all our glass with vacuum glazing from LandVac last year. We were fortunate to have smallish wooden frames ...
This is how my system is arranged, with a three port valve that switches the HP flow either directly to the DHW or to the buffer when in heating /cool...
@editor No objection from me to using AI if it spreads the word. I personally use Perplexity quite a bit and find it helpful. But as others have m...
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@mars That response surely deserves a nomination for Tu...
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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House
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Now posting on the right topic.... With general build...
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