Last seen: Aug 14, 2025
Data collection has been semi successful today. One weird thing is that there isn’t a consistent water loss… at times it worse than others. But there’...
Is there just one type and make of smart meter or do different providers/installers use different brands/sizes?
@derek-m, good plan. I’ll do that today and use the bath as the large test vessel tonight.
@soniks, yes, there’s a possibility the meter is broken. Not sure how they’d test it, but worth raising I can’t find a leak source.
An interesting way to look at it. I’m going to seal off some taps tomorrow and see where that takes us.
OFTEC officially joins the world of heat pump training:/p> Looks like the training is MCS based.
@mike-patrick, on a semi-related note, we called around yesterday looking for a tradesman to undertake a smallish project. One of the guy’s responses ...
@soniks, the leak size is a guesstimate on what I’ve “measured” our consumption be versus what the metre is saying. It’s crazy we can’t see evidence o...
@mike-patrick, I would deem that very expensive indeed. We're in mid-Wales and most plumbers around us charge £25-£50 per hour. It may vary from area...
@oxo2oxo, have you considered drilling a borehole if you're wanting to invest in a ground source heat pump? You don't need much space at all for the b...
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