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@grantmethestrength Your system is constantly cycling, but fortunately the frequency of cycling is not very high. Have you tried lowering the weath...
@treewizard That's probably fine, provided as you say you don't mistreat it by very frequent cycling.
@treewizard Very interesting, thanks - although I have seen the follow-up explaining that the Netzero app costs £7 per month. Do you know if third...
@jamespa I followed your advice and the room temperature drifted up slightly to around 20.5C, even hitting 20.7C at one point. I am not sure that t...
@paultheheating I wonder if you are being a bit pessimistic. A friend of mine moved from an oil boiler to a heat pump. Oil is so expensive compared ...
@allyfish thanks for your observations. At the moment, I suspect that my upstairs radiators are receiving too much water flow even without the +/-10%...
@giryan I understand your dilemma. I was in a similar position earlier in the year and was certainly nervous about installing a heat pump. However, ...
Well you certainly are a brave polar bear! A few comments: I presume you have insulated the remainder of the pipe work, since you took the fir...
We are on the Intelligent Octopus Go tariff. We installed a heat pump in the summer and our solar panel and battery installation is almost complete. ...
@editor Here are my suggested questions: In your designs, how do you trade off the up-front cost of the system versus ongoing running costs? What...
It may be cycling on and off a lot. Do you have any graphs of the compressor frequency, water outlet/inlet temperature, other relevant data... over s...
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