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