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We live in Devon and have been down a similar route. Our property is about 280 square metres, is reasonably well insulated but is old. Our annual oil ...
The whole system seems to work on the basis of making it attractive enough to jump to a heat pump because the additional cost is viable for m...
Damn, I pressed the button on my new heat pump too soon. If I had waited, my button press could have stopped a hostile invasion !
I'd seen a reference to that on my google feed - citing the need to fund defence instead. It's a reasonable statement and I can see why it ha...
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...
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