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I think Bart’s experience exposes and illustrates the fundamental design error. The scheme treats the installation as the product and the funding tran...
@bart thank you for weighing in, and I am sorry that after 19 months your installation is still being shaped by the very shitshow we are discussing. I...
@jamespa, I think your three questions are useful and they would make an excellent consumer checklist; and my objection is not to educating homeowners...
@Ian-S, I think @JamesPa’s latest comments are probably the most useful way of looking at this. His point that most of the problems we repeatedly se...
@jamespa, I think we agree on about 80% of this. Where we differ is the point at which sensible consumer education becomes the transfer of professiona...
@jamespa there's no need to delete this. You’re discussing the political context surrounding renewables, not campaigning for a particular party, and I...
@jamespa, I understand the concern. The title is deliberately provocative because polite titles disappear and frankly I've seen no improvements in ins...
The circus surrounding the heat pump journey is at the centre of my new book, Britain’s Heat Pump Shitshow: How Installing a Heating System Became a N...
@davidb I can’t help you with contacts at Vaillant unfortunately. They’ve had a lot of staff turnover this year, and I’ve not connected with the new p...
@Ian-S, I actually think this is a pretty reasonable place to have ended up after doing a lot of research. There is an awkward truth with heat pumps...
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RE: How will removing the standing charge on gas bills benefit heat pumps?
I'm not sure it makes much of a difference to heat-pump...
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@editor Ouch, sorry to re start the tick. I had assume...
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RE: New Build 3 Phase or 1Phase
We are on three phase power because it's an enormous li...
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RE: How much of your renewable and home setup would still work if the internet went down?
Yes I actually have a copy of a tool that whenever a ce...
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RE: Indevolt Batteries UK Support & Info Thread
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RE: Double or Triple Glazed Windows?
Posted by: @singlespeed With 9 years repairing windo...
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@transparent we’re still running a secure version of PH...
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RE: How quickly would you want/expect heat recovery to take from setback?
Much longer than that here. The heating isn't even on. ...
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RE: Passiv Smart Thermostat - Help & Forum Support
Obviously the weather is changeable but there's a defin...
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RE: The Changing Jet Stream Could Challenge UK Air Source Heat Pumps
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RE: Safety study for plug in batteries out to tender - looks like Q3 2027 at best before legal
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RE: 15kw pump for 225m2 1990's house - over kill?
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