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49 is quite high, I would prefer 45, but if they are guaranteeing scop it doesn't really matter, and anyway it will in practice be what it will be, de...
All of the things you say the industry could do are fair, but it won't unless there is either government or commercial pressure. I can't see a commer...
For me the whole situation now reduces to: The industry won't change unless forced to by government, and possibly not even then. This takes time, c...
Absolutely spot on IMHO. Anytime someone posts here that they are installing a 10,12,16kW heat pump or worse still a cascade I am immediately suspi...
And that is the whole point really. The ofgem standard house (medium) consumes 11.5MWh of gas per year so is well less than 7kW. The fact it's the o...
I'm not sure why you would want to make it more difficult for busy people to respond which sending it by snail mail does. By all means do b...
Hmm, not so sure personally about the title. Who is it aimed at? Presumably not those who want a heat pump because the title doesn't include 'and ho...
Yes and yes, although I haven't seen many here which are down to this, so I wouldn't count it as a top failure mode based on what we see here. Most ...
@lucia FWIW installed a woodburner some years ago. The combustion air is drawn from the underfloorboard space through a vent near the burner. I ...
@ian-s I can understand where you are coming from but I do think that, particularly given what you have already told us, the risks are being overst...
I think I saw a diagram for an exhaust air dhw tank with movable baffles to do the same. This triggers thinking about it holistically as an energy ma...
I guess that running it 'backwards' (water to air) it would. It's an interesting thought! Octopus posted an experiment with one of the many 400£ Air...
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