Last seen: Aug 11, 2025
Very interesting Ant. Thanks for sharing, and welcome again to the forums. Which air source heat pump did you go for?
Welcome to the forums @donald and thank you for sharing your sharing your positive experience and for reminding is that heat pumps can work when desig...
Getting the Vaillant engineer out will be important to at least diagnose the issue. The installers sound like they’ve bodged it royally. I would defin...
What Derek has stated above is key. I would call the MCS today and lodge a formal complaint. Do you have any complaints and/or responses from the inst...
@derek-m, good suggestion. I will circulate your message via my social media channels if that's OK.
Have two responses. They may not be overly helpful, but I have to agree that you need to get the installers out, despite them not being very good. If ...
@prjohn, I had no idea that they were connected via a WAN. I thought that they were 4g. Interesting.
That sounds like a horror @saz. Like you, we suffer from regular low flow errors. Nightmare. I'll put some feelers out tonight on your behalf and see ...
@prjohn, are you really rural that the smart metres can't get a signal. If you have 4g signal, will they be able to connect?
For those want to review Ofgem's default tariff cap level for 1 April 2022 to 30 September 2022 I've attached it to this post. Our variable tariff wil...
@mike-patrick, thank you. I've jotted the questions down and will include them in our interview.
We have scheduled an interview with a Senior Policy Adviser at Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) next week where we’re goi...
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