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The circus surrounding the heat pump journey is at the centre of my new book, Britain’s Heat Pump Shitshow: How Installing a Heating System Became a N...
@davidb I can’t help you with contacts at Vaillant unfortunately. They’ve had a lot of staff turnover this year, and I’ve not connected with the new p...
@Ian-S, I actually think this is a pretty reasonable place to have ended up after doing a lot of research. There is an awkward truth with heat pumps...
@DavidB, I think @Majordennisbloodnok has already nailed the guarantee point, so I won’t repeat it.As @JamesPa suggests, I’d now put this straight bac...
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