Last seen: Aug 6, 2025
@grahamh, if I'm honest I Most people here have paid in excess of £12,000 for their heap pumps to be installed professionally, but the installations ...
@Morgan, most services I've heard of are around £250, but cost of living may have driven this up. To be honest, even £250 is a significant amount of...
@morgan, yikes, that’s expensive.
Not MQTT as far I’m aware but it is Thread enabled and will run on Matter when it’s readily available allowing it to communicate with non-iOS devices,...
The installers were helpful and finally moved the filter inside for easier access, but the flow issues persisted which prompted them to add more distr...
All ASHPs require a minimum flow rate to protect the heat pump unit. I suspect yours has a threshold too, but you haven’t been affected by that yet as...
@oswiul that’s very good. I may have to steal that as a headline for my next post that I’m working in.
Sadly, the MCS are a toothless organization that I had a lot of faith in when we started RHH and have had regular contact with them. I am fortunate to...
On the subject of COP, I have to disagree because it should matter greatly. Each and every MCS-accredited heat pump in the UK has a published COP for ...
@grahamh, and therein lies the biggest issue for me with the ASHP industry. Running costs don't correlate with the heat they produce (and the manufact...
Our lifetime COP is 2.7 and the published COP of our 18kW Global Energy Systems heat pump is supposed to be 3.46 at 45C flow temperature.
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RE: Octopus Cosy & Octopus EV + bidirectional smart tariff, together. What, eh?
Agree. To me it misses the obvious fit namely 'se...
By JamesPa , 2 hours ago
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RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News
this document extensively describes (in a non-blame, ne...
By Judith , 3 hours ago
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RE: Planning Permission May 2025
In England that is no longer the case although you have...
By JamesPa , 14 hours ago
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RE: ASHP heat output monitoring
As you know, you need the flow rate to do that, and I t...
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RE: Ecodan - Legionella Operation Time and Target Temperature
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RE: Replacing Refrigerant on Mitsubishi Heat Pump
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RE: Why do we need pressurised systems?
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RE: 300 Liter Tank - Do I have to heat it all?
Cross references for @martingale Background discussi...
By Transparent , 2 days ago
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@ecobaker May I ask a question of you please. I too hav...
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RE: Share Your Experiences with Heat Pump Manufacturer Support
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By Toodles , 2 days ago
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It's unclear to me how the Smart Control project work b...
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RE: Have Consumers Been Lied to About the Efficiency of Heat Pumps Made in China?
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RE: Solar Power Output – Let’s Compare Generation Figures
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RE: Is this just haze or something more?
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By Judith , 5 days ago
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RE: My misgivings about installing ASHP and solar panels via the ECO4 scheme...
All noted and accepted and as I say I am sorry that you...
By JamesPa , 5 days ago
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I think it is very much me that is sitting outside the ...
By Grantmethestrength , 5 days ago
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
Aggregators have been recognised for many years, and it...
By Transparent , 6 days ago
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RE: Help me keep the faith with my air source heat pump installation
Great news I edited my previous post (probably af...
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