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RE: Damage (by installers?) on back of brand new heat pump

Far more care should be taken during packaging and transporting of air source heat pumps. These are heavy machines; ours weighed just under 200kg, and...

3 years ago
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RE: Damage (by installers?) on back of brand new heat pump

Some of our fins were damaged too when the unit arrived, but it's not a massive problem in the greater scheme of things. The fin combs, from what I've...

3 years ago
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RE: What's your current daily damage?

Did you ditch the buffer too?

3 years ago
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RE: What's your current daily damage?

@drew-pa, electricity consumption. In January 2021, which was one of our coldest winters, we consumed 2,231 kWh of electricity. More detailed info her...

3 years ago
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RE: Painting on insulation: Emperor Paint Masonry Creme

@Jeff, good timing to follow up. I've actually scheduled myself to do a follow up and update this week. I've been waiting for the temperatures to drop...

3 years ago
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RE: What's your current daily damage?

At 5-10C outside, we easily push 55-60kWh per day. When temperatures tumble to zero and below, we had days in Feb two winters ago where we did over 10...

3 years ago
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RE: Measuring your COP

@derek-m, you have helped more people by yourself on the forums (as a non-heating 'expert') than all the heating engineers I know put together over th...

3 years ago
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RE: How many installers do you think have heat pumps at home?

@derek-m, I suspect we all know the answer to that question, but it's a valid question to ask.

3 years ago
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How many installers do you think have heat pumps at home?
3 years ago
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RE: Measuring your COP

That is the million dollar question. We screened six installers. Three were very clearly cowboys, so they were easy to dismiss. The problem is well-pr...

3 years ago
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RE: Measuring your COP

They slapped in two of these in addition to the other two circulation pumps we have and at this time of year they have to run at max.

3 years ago
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RE: Measuring your COP

@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 ...

3 years ago
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