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The Octopus £9/month deal sounds reasonable but I suppose they only cover their own installations...
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...
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. ...
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...
@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...
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Should I change my cylinder when changing from a gas boiler to a heat pump.
I have 178 L Gledhill unvented cylinder which was fitte...
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Should I change my cylinder when changing from a gas boiler to a heat pump.
I have 178 L Gledhill unvented cylinder which was fitte...
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RE: Plug and play solar. Thoughts?
Impressions so far from the one I've installed are that...
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@batpred The Daikin temperature probe protrudes from th...
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RE: Air source heat pump roll call – what heat pump brand and model do you have?
@editor And as an occasional contributor, may I say wel...
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RE: Should Households Who Can Afford It Pay More for Energy to Help Those Who Can't?
They don't have to try. Our entire system is d...
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RE: Why don't people choose heat pumps?
Fair enough. I guess I was thinking of pipes that run ...
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RE: How Can I Prove Coal Was My Main Heating Source Without Receipts?
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RE: Buffer tank on a 2 x 14kw Ecodan system
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RE: Help me keep the faith with my air source heat pump installation
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
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