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Last seen: Oct 10, 2026
@rhh2348 it's the way the heat pump arrived. It was literally taken off a truck, wheeled to the slabs and placed there. It's designed to stand (it's t...
Yes, please share it.
Our heat pump is also a lot quieter when it's in defrost because the fan goes off. We do have an audible clicking sound that comes from within the uni...
@rhh2348, yeah on earth below, but the area was very heavily compacted so even trying to burrow them in was quite hard. Not a huge gap bewteen the ...
@rhh2348 here's what we did with our heat pump. We secured our heat pump (weighing around 180kg) by placing four levelled concrete slabs side-by-side ...
@elton that's very kind of you. Feel free to drop MCS an email telling them they should buy a copy for each of their accredited installer 🤣 ...
@mike-h but that won't be automated will it? That would have be done manually, which requires a lot of reminders.
@jamespa indeed, and then our heat pumps need to adapt to months of subzero temperatures. And the other big impact last year was a milder than usual...
I understand that Octopus want to be trendy and be ahead of the curve but there aren't many houses in the UK that will pull off this purple look.
Question is will there still be a habitable planet in 40-ish years time 😥
That’ll almost certainly be a controller thing. Our system is the same. If the legionnaires cycle is due, it kicks over to the immersion immediately o...
I suspect @transparent might 😀
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