Last seen: Sep 10, 2025
@bodger, welcome and we look forward to learning from your experiences.
Thanks for sharing Jon. Very interesting.
@mike-patrick, that’s a sensible way to approach it. It’s inefficient heating the buffer and running the pump to get just one room to temperature.
@s-watson, the initial issue that you'll experience with a central thermostat is that when the hallway gets to 19C, it'll switch the heat pump off. So...
Welcome to the forums @s-watson and thanks for joining. You are correct about leaving your heat pump on 24/7 (all the time) and not on a timer. The ...
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@george, decent solar is amazingly helpful. We did over 500kWh in March, and that takes some pressure off the bills. Also the warmer has helped.
@george, that's a valid point. If we didn't have the RHI metres, there'd be no way we could isolate ASHP consumption from the rest of our electricity ...
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RE: Can you help with our research: solar panels, EV chargers, home batteries, heat pumps?
Just done your survey!
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