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The irony of this entire situation isn’t lost on me @transparent: if we’d had a properly installed, reliable heat pump from the start, there likely wo...
We’re approaching year six with our heat pump and have hit another snag this weekend (not the first, unfortunately): the system is persistently raisin...
@transparent can't get my hand in to even take a photo. Laughable position. And to compound issues we've woken up to a cold house two days in a row ...
@netdonkey definitely give that a clean, following what toodles said, and tell us if it helped.
As an update, we vacuumed the valve out, but unfortunately, it’s still not working. Worth a try. The valve motor moves to the open position when req...
@netdonkey do exactly what @ashp-bobba says above. Cleaning it is really easy once you've popped the nut off. It's got a little gauze filter/mesh in...
@toodles so do you need to provide proof of purchase of an EV to Octopus before availing of this tariff? Also, what happens if someone qualifies wi...
That’s a fair point and a valid concern. However, isn’t this exactly the kind of issue that the grid operators and energy suppliers – the official cus...
On our system, originally, it was inside the heat pump unit (we don’t have a Samsung). It was a bloody stupid location because we had to remove heat p...
No, you don't an EV for the EV tariff, just like you probably don't need a heat pump for the heat pump tariff. Just names for their "products".
@andris interesting, and thanks sharing percentages, which is a lot clearer than "pay a fraction of the price per unit of electricity compared to our ...
@toodles, yeah, that's E.ON for you. They do love a clandestine tariff and make you work for it. Hopefully the smart meter will be fitted next week...
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