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MCS are largely all talk and very little action, which is so disappointing. Equally so, the consumer codes are inept in dealing with bodged installati...
@gemiar, welcome to the forums and thanks for sharing. Please feel free to start a new topic for your set up and let us know what your running costs a...
Based on my recent forays into consumer protections and ombudsman cases, I'm not so sure. That should be case on paper, but in reality things get real...
Based on your £20/day figure that equates to roughly 50kWh, which at this time of year is not an unreasonable amount for a heat pump to be using depen...
I love that sentence as it summarizes the heat pump owner to a tee. I bet most heat pump owners have woken up at some ungodly hour to feel the rads or...
Far more care should be taken during packaging and transporting of air source heat pumps. These are heavy machines; ours weighed just under 200kg, and...
Some of our fins were damaged too when the unit arrived, but it's not a massive problem in the greater scheme of things. The fin combs, from what I've...
Did you ditch the buffer too?
@drew-pa, electricity consumption. In January 2021, which was one of our coldest winters, we consumed 2,231 kWh of electricity. More detailed info her...
@Jeff, good timing to follow up. I've actually scheduled myself to do a follow up and update this week. I've been waiting for the temperatures to drop...
At 5-10C outside, we easily push 55-60kWh per day. When temperatures tumble to zero and below, we had days in Feb two winters ago where we did over 10...
@derek-m, you have helped more people by yourself on the forums (as a non-heating 'expert') than all the heating engineers I know put together over th...
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