Last seen: Sep 15, 2025
Thanks @foggy and welcome to the forums. An EV is definitely on the cards, and we may hold off till V2G is available, as that would make a lot of fina...
@dant I fully agree - there's very little point exporting at the moment - the tariffs are just so low. You're better of utilising as much of the elect...
Not sure about Julian's system, but our iBoost only sends excess electricity (what would have been exported) to the immersion heater in the hot water ...
Our heating was still coming in the early hours of the morning last week, so we've just switched it off at the panel now. Hot water is being exclusive...
@derek-m, I think we are heading that way, especially if electricity tariffs don't start to come down. I pulled our data for this year so far, and ...
@julianc, I didn't know that EVs were on a 20% VAT rate - I didn't read the story this morning, but maybe the government was considering dropping the ...
@paulb, welcome to the forums Paul. Addressing your room temperatures, do they all have rads and are the rads definitely off despite the thermostat...
I think it's high time that something was done about electricity tariffs for all forms of renewables. Let's be honest, if you have an ASHP, it's respo...
@kev-m, we run our system to 21C just about everywhere and the difference in our house, from a running efficiency, between 19C and 21C is huge. But 19...
@Jeff, welcome to the forums. We've upsized our rads, and I think that this coming winter will be first time that our heat pump may not run 24/7 becau...
I guess the issue around heating homes centres around the amount of fossil fuels required to make it viable.
Latest Posts
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RE: Heat Pump Damage on install - useable or dealbreaker?
They have already been dishonest by not telling you abo...
By GrahamF , 9 hours ago
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Testing new controls/monitoring for Midea Clone ASHP
Hi all, I thought it might be of interest to others i...
By benson , 9 hours ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions
@diverted-energy sounds like good tariff for you. Octop...
By JulianC , 10 hours ago
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RE: Who’s Caved and Switched the Heating On Already?
In the last week, the external temperature in south Man...
By GrahamF , 12 hours ago
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Ok. Two schools of thought. The first is to run the ...
By JamesPa , 13 hours ago
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@drei Willing as I am to help, I don't think I'm yet ...
By JamesPa , 13 hours ago
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RE: Is Your Broadband Router the Weak Link in Your High-Tech Home?
I hear you on the locality issue @transparent, and I ag...
By Scalextrix , 15 hours ago
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Selling 5 year old ASHP & Gas Combi Boiler - £590
Selling a 5-year-old Daikin Altherma Hybrid Air Source ...
By Paul G , 16 hours ago
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation
@pash44pump Referring to the problem of rooms with diff...
By Tasos , 17 hours ago
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RE: Help me keep the faith with my air source heat pump installation
Er true, it should have read l/hr!
By JamesPa , 18 hours ago
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@damon thanks. I will do as you suggest. Hopefully I wi...
By bontwoody , 2 days ago
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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...
By JamesPa , 2 days ago
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RE: Heat Pump Servicing & Maintenance – Good Value or Rip-Off?
@dgclimatecontrol I attach the responses from 2 potenti...
By pash44pump , 3 days ago
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RE: Buffers, hot water and cooling
@dgclimatecontrol thanks, that's helpful.
By JamesPa , 3 days ago
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RE: Failing heat pump system - seeking thoughts on a rebuild
I realise im overdue an update on my situation. first...
By Cleardene-ashp , 4 days ago
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RE: Replacing Worcester oil boiler with an ASHP
@toodles thanks. I was told by the engineer that this h...
By JulianC , 4 days ago
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RE: What crazy nonsense are inverter limits and why are they imposed?
A week later, I'm finally picking up this comment... ...
By Transparent , 4 days ago
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RE: COP is not the only measure of efficiency
We keep all our TRVs fully open using the whole house a...
By Old_Scientist , 4 days ago
