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@idemportent I was going to ask how many there were, because that looks like a large enclosure. Do you know what brands they are?
@idemportent 🤣 yeah, if there really is a heat pump in there, that's a horror!
"We Are All People Of Power" Free film screening, quick talks and Q&A. Feb 26, 2026, 6-8pm Exmouth library.Meet the heroes behind Polly Meyrick's ...
TJ = Thomas Root, Heat Flexibility & Cosy Heat Pump Program Director, who made an appearance in this podcast episode:
From what I've learned following MCS for five years, along with their CEO's approach to keeping a monopoly and stranglehold on the industry, they want...
And a buffer tank doesn’t even guarantee minimum flow. We had a buffer and still suffered constant flow errors. Our system needed roughly 30 l/min and...
@jamespa, fair point about Octopus.
That’s honestly wild. I had no idea it worked like that. I’d always assumed MCS selected a property at random from an installer’s recent jobs. If the ...
@bart, it's utterly nuts what you've been through! This is a good place to keep the conversation going. Do you need someone to come out and do a ...
@gruff2001, your experience exposes the MCS audit for what it truly is… a shallow, perfunctory box-ticking exercise masquerading as serious oversight....
@razz, unfortunately ‘hydraulic separation’ has become a comfort blanket phrase for poor installers. It’s not inherently evil, but it’s also not a fre...
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