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RE: Aira Heat Pump: Stylish Scandinavian Heating

The higher design temp in the bedroom isn't necessarily bad eg spare bedroom used as an office or hobby room where maybe 18 would be not as comfortabl...

5 months ago
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RE: Are Octopuses Slowing Consumer Adoption of Heat Pumps?

Heat Geek came straight back to me and sorted it out as the proposal was still active on their books so I don't think you'll have a h issues @davesoa

8 months ago
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RE: Advice on Vaillant Sensocomfort

The way I read the sensocomfort manual is the flow temperature on the curve only apply at a target indoor temp of 20. If you adjust this up or down th...

8 months ago
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RE: Are Octopuses Slowing Consumer Adoption of Heat Pumps?

I went via the Heat Geek website and had the same T&Cs saying the fee was refundable. I'm yet to get the refund after declining my proposal which ...

8 months ago
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RE: British Gas versus Octopus: Two possible heat pump routes - how to evaluate them?

Really glad to hear you're pleased with the installation - it sounds like you've done a good job wrangling Octopus to give you what you want!

8 months ago
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RE: Single vs. three phase for heat pump, EV and appliances

Larger heat pumps, heated pools, steam rooms and hot tubs in top of a normal domestic load were examples that came up today. I had a three phase suppl...

10 months ago
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RE: Single vs. three phase for heat pump, EV and appliances

I had a survey from UKPN as I was considering moving my supply (inside to outside) and we touched in three phase. The costs were not small for a 3m ...

10 months ago
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RE: Heat pump install overloads home fuse - 80A limitations

Found this which may explain what is going on: I read that UKPN is still doing 100A fuses.

10 months ago
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RE: Just go with the lowest Quote?

Have you checked for any extras on the Octopus side? For example I had to either get artex removed or lift floorboards for an alternative pipe route -...

11 months ago
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RE: Buffer tank in primary circuit?

When I queried Octopus on the buffer I was told it was installed as a volumiser on the return line. They specifically mentioned to help with defrosts....

11 months ago
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RE: Two possible heat pump routes - how to evaluate them?

@lucia ah sorry I wasn't clear, I meant with BGs price being higher than Octopus how much lower was that from say the price that upgrades.heatgeek.com...

11 months ago
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RE: Two possible heat pump routes - how to evaluate them?

@lucia in your position, given a second survey that confirms what you suspected about the heat loss and agrees with your own calculation I wouldn't ac...

11 months ago
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