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JamesPa
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RE: Heat Pumps Without Grants: Would You Have Installed One & Will You Now?

Im guessing a fair proportion of that group are renters, so its their landlord's job. How low income home owners manage to find the money to replace ...

1 week ago
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RE: DHW heat loss through pumps.

Which is exactly how houses used to be designed (and I suspect mass designed houses still are). Put all the plumbing as close together as possible.

1 week ago
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RE: Octopus Cosy Heat Pump Owners & Discussion Thread

I doubt that tweaking the warm OAT setting will make much difference but its worth a try! My guess is you may well need a cold end setting lower than...

1 week ago
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RE: Octopus Cosy Heat Pump Owners & Discussion Thread

People have to get used to the fact that, while running costs are certainly high during (rare) very cold periods, that balances out over the whole sea...

1 week ago
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RE: Heat Pumps Without Grants: Would You Have Installed One & Will You Now?

I tend to agree. Presumably this is why since 2011 the electric/gas price ratio has very steadily gone up from 2.5:1 in 2011 to 4:1 in 2020 (after wh...

1 week ago
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RE: DHW heat loss through pumps.

Exactly. It strikes me that grey water recovery might be a simpler and more robust way to 'save' the water. There is still some heat lost though. ...

1 week ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions

We live in a democracy on a crowded island so everyone gets a say. Then everyone has an opportunity to challenge through judicial review which can ta...

1 week ago
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RE: DHW heat loss through pumps.

Ah, got it. Requires some discipline though if the pump is only triggered manually on demand, how many teenagers will have that?

1 week ago
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RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

I bought a handful of system in my last job, commercial use but domestic in scale. Costs soon mount up if you need multiple, even two or three, idus ...

1 week ago
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RE: DHW heat loss through pumps.

Sorry Im still not getting it. How does a recirculating loop with one or more switches save either water or energy relative to the simple arrangeme...

1 week ago
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RE: DHW heat loss through pumps.

@ubert767 Interesting. So the relay detects you are in the bathroom and switches the recirculation on? If so how does this work for the other out...

1 week ago
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RE: Octopus Cosy Heat Pump Owners & Discussion Thread

The problem comes only if you can't turn the ft down sufficiently because of the firmware limitations. At that point you will have to run thermostat ...

1 week ago
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