Last seen: Sep 17, 2025
@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...
Did you ditch the buffer too?
@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...
@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...
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...
@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...
@derek-m, I suspect we all know the answer to that question, but it's a valid question to ask.
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RE: Powerwall 3 or Myenergi or something else?
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By Temperature_Gradient , 7 minutes ago
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RE: Help me keep the faith with my air source heat pump installation
Yes thats the whole point of the flexis as regards tran...
By JamesPa , 21 minutes ago
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So far as I can tell designing for DT5, which is 'the n...
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Mitsu PAR-WT60R Wireless Controller - options
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WC curve best discovered by experiment anyway as any lo...
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RE: Big Changes Coming to Our Heat Pump System
@editor your engineer's attitude is truly horrifying. ...
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RE: How to choose Towel Rails for an ASHP
@rob-nezard yes absolutely. Here is the link and a pho...
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@mixergy Thanks for the update, I would appreciate some...
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RE: Is Your Broadband Router the Weak Link in Your High-Tech Home?
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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House
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RE: Testing new controls/monitoring for Midea Clone ASHP
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation
I noticed that too and thought the same thing, but then...
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RE: Ya can’t win! It is S*d’s Law!
@old_scientist If IOF is still running next late spring...
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RE: Electricity price predictions
Those of you on Agile will do well tomorrow; there are ...
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RE: Who’s Caved and Switched the Heating On Already?
We've been running our Ecodan system, installed in June...
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Ok. Two schools of thought. The first is to run the ...
By JamesPa , 3 days ago
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@drei Willing as I am to help, I don't think I'm yet ...
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Selling 5 year old ASHP & Gas Combi Boiler - £590
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RE: Is a Valliant Inline 6kW heater a BUS buster?
Much of that is true in principle, but its not likely t...
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