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@majordennisbloodnok You have misunderstood me. The tap is your heating system. Your house is full of holes (the bucket is full of holes). Currently, ...
@editor You are mistaken, you consider that the £4750.00 is just labour. It also includes the certification, insurances, administration, management, v...
@majordennisbloodnok Look at it another way, How much water do you need to continuously pour in to a bucket with a hole in it to keep it full? Witho...
@editor What do you consider expensive? You are prepared to pay a lawyer, doctor, accountant, ect (white collar job) £150-£500.00 and hour or even m...
@editor More fool you, that 2 line text is not MCS compliant, technically you would have got a heat pump installation for free, if the MCS system work...
@majordennisbloodnok As you have no idea what the most important figure in the calculation is "I do not know to any accuracy how airtight it is", any ...
This all boils down to integrity on both sides. We have had many rouge customers that expect you to do works outside the contract and then refuse to p...
@mjr Do you ask how much the tyres cost when you buy a car? I doubt it. I sell a product, not components.
@mjr It depends what numbers you put in your calculator. If you do a heat loss calculation on a new build, you will find that 70-85% of the heat loss ...
@cycleneil If you do not trust your tradesman, do not employ them. I will supply as much technidal details as my customer wants but if he wants a br...
@derek-m I only have 1 in my house and have no condensation problems. 2 would be better and they will pay for themselves in less than a year. No brain...
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RE: Anyone concerned about GivEnergy?
Yes and no. Native controllers generally do a good jo...
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RE: A2A vs A2W: Which Heat Pump Would You Pick?
@temperature_gradient I've had air-to-air for just over...
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RE: Home automation and the cloud; is there a better way?
+1 It's not just cloud though. Many devices have repla...
By bobflux , 12 hours ago
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RE: End-of-Life Heat Pumps: How Do You Dispose of an ASHP in the UK?
We've started to document everything, and part 2 of the...
By Mars , 17 hours ago
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RE: Summer usage. Why is my Vaillant Aerotherm using so much energy on "heating"?
So the red bars are 'DHW' and the yellow bars 'heating'...
By JamesPa , 18 hours ago
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Its good kit the Midea and significantly cheaper, you w...
By ASHP-BOBBA , 22 hours ago
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RE: Indevolt Batteries UK Support & Info Thread
Have you tried cutting the grid feed to see what actual...
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RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News
Critics and naysayers will be negative whatever the gov...
By JamesPa , 22 hours ago
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RE: Microbore heat pump installs
In principle you are almost certainly right, but in pra...
By JamesPa , 1 day ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions
@old_scientist We are a low mileage home, so bulk of ou...
By ChandyKris , 1 day ago
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There are just too many unknowns for me to comment on p...
By Transparent , 1 day ago
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RE: What is the main ‘dictator’ of Agile’s unit price?
@toodles I keep an eye on wholesale prices and energy m...
By ChandyKris , 1 day ago
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RE: Brand and installer questions for ASHP
Strange, perhaps it doesnt use modbus which the third p...
By JamesPa , 2 days ago
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RE: Upgrading my system, how far do I go?
For comparison, my PW3 with 11.04kW inverter, will char...
By Old_Scientist , 2 days ago
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RE: Changes to Tesla Powerwall Charging Regime?
Elon gate - legendary! I take my hat off to you @toodle...
By Old_Scientist , 2 days ago
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RE: Mitsubishi Ecodan not good enough ?
Thanks @goody, appreciate the feedback and sorry you ha...
By marcexec , 2 days ago
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RE: Minimum and Zero Disrupt Heat Pump Installations
True (first sentence) Thats the reason to consider th...
By JamesPa , 3 days ago
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RE: High air source heat pump running costs – Vaillant AroTherm Plus
Quite right. I was using a rough guesstimate of doublin...
By Majordennisbloodnok , 3 days ago
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RE: My Grant R290 9kW Heat Pump Installation
Again, really don't know how accurate this is! &nb...
By petch , 3 days ago
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RE: MCS Quality Audit – Has Anyone Had One? Did It Lead to Remediation?
@toodles The whole scheme is a shocking waste of money....
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RE: DIY or Don’t Touch? Solarman Smart Meter Install
Yes, and these guys would probably be my preferred inst...
By Batpred , 4 days ago
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RE: Hot water tank lose heat rapidly on random days
@jamespa Hopefully their reasons are well intended! ...
By Bash , 4 days ago
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RE: Ecoflow UK Support & Info Thread
As mentioned above, we’ve got our full review of the Ec...
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