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RE: Heat Pump Servicing & Maintenance – Good Value or Rip-Off?

The Octopus £9/month deal sounds reasonable but I suppose they only cover their own installations...

8 months ago
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RE: Heat Pump Servicing & Maintenance – Good Value or Rip-Off?

That's a valid point, of course nobody wants the inconvenience. But the maintenance contract doesn't stop breakdowns, as I found out - it still took...

8 months ago
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RE: Heat Pump Servicing & Maintenance – Good Value or Rip-Off?

I paid around £300 to my Mitsi installer last September but very little seemed to be done apart from opening the covers and washing down the outside. ...

8 months ago
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RE: Heat Pump Servicing & Maintenance – Good Value or Rip-Off?

I am about to get my Mitsubishi 14kW Zubadan serviced by an independent heating engineer. In the event of a warranty claim, what evidence do the manu...

8 months ago
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RE: is a home battery without an EV worth it?

@adamk apologies if my comments appeared thoughtless and I should of course have qualified my final point with "and provided you have suitable funding...

8 months ago
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RE: is a home battery without an EV worth it?

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...

8 months ago
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RE: The Battery Battle

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 ...

8 months ago
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RE: The Battery Battle

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.

8 months ago
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RE: The Battery Battle

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...

8 months ago
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RE: Ecodan & MelCloud scheduling

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...

8 months ago
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RE: Powerwall 3 or Myenergi or something else?

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. ...

8 months ago
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RE: Does anyone have experience of a smart water meter?

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...

8 months ago
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