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

@lucia I found the octopus survey to be close to my own results - though I did make a point of calling out things like wall construction & window ...

8 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: How Government Grants May Be Inflating Heat Pump Installation Prices and What Could Happen If They’re Scrapped

@derek-m yes absolutely I've been looking both to recent work I've had done (to try and assess labour costs) and also Screwfix/stelrad and others to v...

9 months ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: How Government Grants May Be Inflating Heat Pump Installation Prices and What Could Happen If They’re Scrapped

Whether prices are higher than they should be is certainly something that has crossed my mind. For example as part of a quote I've received I need 8 ...

9 months ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: A beginner's journey into DIY home energy storage - no solar!

So another service cut out and meter for you @transparent: Bit of an awkward space to try and get it all in one shot. My EV charger is on my mai...

9 months ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Is this a bad installation and is there something wrong with my Samsung heat pump?

In my mind the antifreeze valves vs glycol is a "it depends" question. If like me you are in the south east where it rarely gets below freezing and ...

9 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: A beginner's journey into DIY home energy storage - no solar!

I have a tn-c-s earthing arrangement - is that PME? A brief Google leads me to think it is. I do have an earth wire emerging from the service fuse. ...

9 months ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: A beginner's journey into DIY home energy storage - no solar!

@transparent I have a Zappi and I don't have a separate earth stake. My understanding is the Zappi has something called PEN fault detection which mean...

9 months ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Are Octopuses Slowing Consumer Adoption of Heat Pumps?

@davesoa Ah yeah that is a bit more complex. Though in my mind it's easy to cater for - calculate the average u-value for the wall and use that. Very ...

10 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Are Octopuses Slowing Consumer Adoption of Heat Pumps?

@davesoa is that a single run of wall in one room is mixed construction? They can definitely deal with different walls being of different construction...

10 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Are Octopuses Slowing Consumer Adoption of Heat Pumps?

@davesoa I had my survey - seemed to go OK! The heat loss came out at 7.5kW which is within my "reasonable" estimates (lower than the Heat Geek one I...

10 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Are Octopuses Slowing Consumer Adoption of Heat Pumps?

@ivanopinion I stumbled across this thread Performance of 9kW Daikin - Hardware / Heatpump - OpenEnergyMonitor Community where at least two people man...

10 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Are Octopuses Slowing Consumer Adoption of Heat Pumps?

@davesoa your gas usage is similar to mine and I have a 130m2 detached property build in 1979. Insulated cavities, 300mm loft insulation and double gl...

10 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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