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I am trying, so far unsuccessfully, to get an answer to the simple question namely is it legal (given the hosepipe ban) to use a hose to clean ones ow...
After a short while that was followed by the 'power wars', where vacuum cleaners were sold on how much power they consumed (more being 'better') not h...
The press release says how it is funded for this financial year, it doesn't say that it applies only for this financial year. That's subtly, but impo...
I can believe that for everything other than things like energy that have price control. That said if the vat rate had been increased by the same a...
Whatever changes are made they won't be perfect, not least because each of the 70 million people in the country has their own definition of perfect an...
Reading between the lines of what octopus are doing with iog they have discovered that people only plug their cars in when they actually want to charg...
Yes, but they aren't fitted with 13A sockets for the very good reason that they are typically wired with cable that has insufficient capacity. ...
There are now a few heat pumps around that are fully self contained in the indoor unit, requiring 2 typically 200mm diameter holes through the outside...
No. I had the same charging arrangements for a couple of years and used Octopus Go and EON Next. I used a 16A Shelly relay embedded in t...
Unless @transparent disagrees I would say 'circuit' means 'circuit at CU' ie a separate circuit implies its on a separate breaker. G98 might be limi...
Plug in batteries aren't fully legal, just like plug in solar. The position with plug in solar changes on 27th aug. The established industry has be...
FWIW my interpretation is that this is quite deliberately a sticking plaster, quite probably prior to formulating a more comprehensive approach to cos...
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RE: Recommendations in Ely (Cambs) area for Full setup checks on Nibe HP setup for House.
I can't help with your principal question but as a matt...
By JamesPa , 3 hours ago
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RE: Siting of the external sensor on a heatpump
My heat pump receives sunlight, so when the fan is not ...
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RE: Next steps on my ASHP journey: Radiators and Pipework
You should (almost) always reject having a buffer, by w...
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RE: Navigating the World of Refrigerants In Heat Pumps: A Guide for Homeowners
Indeed we are invvestigating AC at present and are havi...
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RE: Is it the house or the equipment?
@majordennisbloodnok I do sympathise. On the original...
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No, but the heat pump must be capable of delivering a S...
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Sorry to hear about the problems, its going to be somet...
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RE: Daikin ESPAltherma and Home Assistant installation
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RE: Problems with sizing a replacement for a Viessmann Vitocal 200-S
R (The R Project for Statistical Computing, I use it wi...
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RE: Vaillant Arotherm Plus 7KW need a service on it
booked it with Vaillant. will use them until i can find...
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RE: Two heating zones to one zone
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RE: Vaillant Aurotherm - Heater Wire Position
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