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Last seen: Nov 13, 2026
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: Should I change my cylinder when changing from a gas boiler to a heat pump.
Our decision process was a bit different as we are air/...
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I second @editor 's advice to not change too many setti...
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RE: Heat Geek Zero Disrupt: Are We Sleepwalking Into Another Race to the Bottom?
The Heat Geek survey and design process continues to ge...
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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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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...
By EtchedPixels , 19 hours ago
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RE: Why don't people choose heat pumps?
Fair enough. I guess I was thinking of pipes that run ...
By JamesPa , 19 hours ago
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RE: How Can I Prove Coal Was My Main Heating Source Without Receipts?
Got excepted for the grant now so thanks for the replie...
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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
Well you have a vibration generator running at some fre...
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
@downfield Thats a decent rate, I’m shocked they hadn...
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RE: Adventures in heat loss calculations
@toodles thanks! So as suspected, around a doubling of ...
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