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Joined: May 2, 2022
Last seen: Jan 29, 2025
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RE: Heating and Hot Water Issues with Thermal Store/Heat Pump

Heat pumps and thermal stores are bad news, really really bad news.... Who designed this system?

12 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Acond PRO-R Heat Pump

Indeed.... And I wasn't too happy that I couldn't see the product before buying it, hence why I went with Cool Energy. I saw them at Installer show an...

12 months ago
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RE: Acond PRO-R Heat Pump

Quote attached…

12 months ago
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RE: Acond PRO-R Heat Pump

I asked Acond for a quote back at the start of my ashp journey… I nearly fell off my chair when the email came in…

12 months ago
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RE: Why are heat pumps so hated?

@elton the issue is purely energy costs…. When people say ‘my heat pump doesn’t work’ what they really mean is ‘it costs more than the gas boiler did’...

1 year ago
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RE: Why are heat pumps so hated?

None of this would matter if electricity wasn’t 3 times the price of gas. Rebalance the energy prices and you can get away with sub optimal installs w...

1 year ago
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RE: Why are heat pumps so hated?

Alec hit the nail on the head right there I think. Most heat pump controls are a bit pants, or a cryptic to use (that’s why GH is always championing t...

1 year ago
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RE: Vaillant Aerotherm plus does not reduce flow rate despite low delta T

The secondary pump won’t be pwm controlled, I assume? Why do you have a buffer and secondary pump anyway?

1 year ago
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RE: Daikin Altherma ASHP help needed – Radiators are not heating up

That’s a daikin hybrid system which uses an intergas boiler as the gas fired bit. looks like it’s firing at 31 degrees flow temp, which is probably ...

1 year ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Meetup at Installer show ‘24

25-27th June at the NEC.

1 year ago
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RE: Real world running cost estimate for 20KW ASHP

@thebarn massively oversized for the heat demand then… Have you seen the heat loss calcs the quoting company have produced?

1 year ago
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RE: Real world running cost estimate for 20KW ASHP

25,000kWh over 6 months, at 23hrs/day of heat input (allowing 1hr for dhw) gives you a continuous heat input of just over 6kW. I bet you could get a...

1 year ago
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