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@mjr, you're right. In the early days, when the house was cooler than normal at 3am, I'd get up and touch the rad. If it was cold, it was a matter of ...
@mjr, I think it's indicative of how poorly understood heat pumps are by the mass market and industry as a whole. I guess they're terrified of having ...
Just completed the survey – very wishy washy. Can't imagine it very helpful, but I suppose it'll provide some insights for the MCS. I'll be very inter...
MCS are largely all talk and very little action, which is so disappointing. Equally so, the consumer codes are inept in dealing with bodged installati...
@gemiar, welcome to the forums and thanks for sharing. Please feel free to start a new topic for your set up and let us know what your running costs a...
Based on my recent forays into consumer protections and ombudsman cases, I'm not so sure. That should be case on paper, but in reality things get real...
Based on your £20/day figure that equates to roughly 50kWh, which at this time of year is not an unreasonable amount for a heat pump to be using depen...
I love that sentence as it summarizes the heat pump owner to a tee. I bet most heat pump owners have woken up at some ungodly hour to feel the rads or...
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...
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...
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