Last seen: Aug 27, 2025
@warren-s, welcome to the forums. What kind of heat pump are looking to install? Air to air or air to water?
A really interesting chat with Jon Fletcher from Big Clean Switch about electricity tariffs and the current energy crisis. Our Zoom was connection on ...
@justinsb, it certainly isn’t going to be a cheap winter for heating using heat pumps. We had a few days in February where we exceeded 100kWh which co...
This is a really interesting and insightful interview about ground source and air source heat pumps that also talks about the importance of heat loss ...
Laura Bishop, chair of the Ground Source Heat Pump Association, breaks down serpentine and slinky coils, water source and boreholes.
Relief – power is back. Heating back on.
On the plus side we’re not paying 24p/kWh of power today 😀
We’ve been without power since midnight courtesy of storm Arwen. Latest update is we’re back on tomorrow with power. Fires are on.
@novemberromeo, I know you already pulled the trigger and had your heat pump installed, but we did discuss your case with Emma about the sizing of you...
@peterr, @batalto is spot on. We had our rads rebalanced in April and it's made a world of difference. The installers did it for us, and followed th...
@batalto, batteries and ROI are how the users utilises them to their advantage – you're clearly doing very well with them and that's amazing. I just d...
Latest Posts
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RE: Electricity price predictions
You should seriously look at better tariffs. I pay an ...
By JamesPa , 5 minutes ago
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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House
@jamespa unfortunately, your plumbing and shelving appr...
By GrahamF , 51 minutes ago
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I've heard good things about FoxESS too. I have a work ...
By Majordennisbloodnok , 1 hour ago
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RE: What crazy nonsense are inverter limits and why are they imposed?
Never heard of the latter and suspect it may be bs; @tr...
By JamesPa , 3 hours ago
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RE: Mitsu Wireless Controller and MelCloud
@robs Hi Rob, At the end of a note to Mitsu UK, thank...
By DavidAlgarve , 16 hours ago
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RE: Why so many sigenergi installer recommendations?
@adamk Tesla is a great option, it’s also one we instal...
By SAEnergy , 1 day ago
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RE: Rodents! A word of warning for heat pump owners
Hradline in Telegraph: Brace for plague of rats after s...
By Tim441 , 1 day ago
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RE: Flexi-Orb Heat Pump Scheme: A Game-Changer for the UK's Heat Pump Industry
As a potential heat pump customer, it would be good to ...
By Temperature_Gradient , 1 day ago
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RE: Octopus replacing the fixed 15p/kWh export rate with a market tracking one
@trbob I have just extracted the details for Agile Expo...
By Toodles , 2 days ago
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RE: Heat Pump Books For Beginners – Bodge Buster & From Zero To Heat Pump Hero
The Ultimate Guide to Heat Pumps is less than a month a...
By Mars , 2 days ago
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RE: Air source heat pump roll call – what heat pump brand and model do you have?
@editor Hi Mars, We have just installed a Grant Aerona...
By GrahamF , 3 days ago
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RE: Sanity check please. Battery storage and inverter sizing.
There are MCS guidelines about how close to the edge/ri...
By Old_Scientist , 3 days ago
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RE: Balancing financial efficiency and comfort using the Octopus Cosy tariff
I estimated our usage on the following basis. The mos...
By Old_Scientist , 3 days ago
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@editor Something changed in this last 12 months, they ...
By ASHP-BOBBA , 4 days ago
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RE: Ecodan & MelCloud scheduling
I put the above question to Mitsu UK at the sme time as...
By DavidAlgarve , 4 days ago
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Thanks for the heat geek info. I've fitted my own heat ...
By bontwoody , 5 days ago
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RE: Does anyone have experience of a smart water meter?
Just to give a sense of scale, I've used the CCW water ...
By Majordennisbloodnok , 5 days ago
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RE: Powerwall 3 or Myenergi or something else?
We have a Tesla Powerwall 3, recently installed, so I m...
By Old_Scientist , 6 days ago
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RE: Mitsubishi PAR-WT60R-E Wireless Controller installation
@morgan They have been paired once but it was thought b...
By DavidAlgarve , 7 days ago
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RE: Isolating the system for a planned power cut
A great many ground-mounted local substation transforme...
By Transparent , 7 days ago
