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When we ran our own home improvement company I put a huge emphasis on customer service - from the time of initial lead contact right through until the...
We were with Octopus in our old house and it was faultless. This was in the days before smart metering and we had a fixed price tariff. We moved to...
I did, indeed, go with the 12 KW Vaillant unit.
Finally, after what seems like an eternity, we paid a deposit for a heat pump installation. The unit should be installed the week starting November ...
I have the impression that the design software doesn't, by default, spit out a breakdown of pricing. I did receive one quote which had some detail, bu...
@batpred I take your point and, perhaps, your experiences are different to mine: I have a couple of friends, both with an engineering background, wh...
@toodles That's about right: early in my my main career I did a lot of consulting work in the technology industry. I was pretty inexperienced in those...
The concept of one agency doing the heat loss survey and another agency doing the installation is an interesting one. In theory, I agree th...
A few more thoughts: I think MCS and the BUS grant require an insurance backed guarantee for two years - that needs to be funded. Whereas a gas sy...
The discussion continues to be interesting and I have only just got back to looking at it (Sunday is cycling and F1 day). The discussion about measu...
@batpred This is a great idea in theory. Our house is in three parts, a third constructed in the early 1700's, a third in mid Victorian times, and the...
@cathoderay I started to record oil usage per month on a regular basis about two years ago. Before that it was somewhat haphazard in frequency but eve...
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