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RE: Why Your MCS-Certified Installer Might Not Be As Competent As You Think

This is where lax terminology fails us big time. Three days training, if you have basic plumbing skills, is almost certainly more than enough time to...

2 years ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: Why Your MCS-Certified Installer Might Not Be As Competent As You Think

Its, sadly, clear to me that the over-regulation simply doesn't work. It provides a get out clause for poor installers, who have done what the rules ...

2 years ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: My horrific Samsung heat pump installation and experience

Thanks, thats really helpful. Please forgive me if I don’t remember everything you have previously posted, whilst I ask some questions in the hope th...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: My horrific Samsung heat pump installation and experience

I suspect that even a typical (ie well oversized) gas boiler might struggle to cope efficiently with this, it would most likely be short cycling appal...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Why are heat pumps so hated?

Much of that is also true for fossil fuel installs. What we don't need is to make heat pumps more difficult than a fossil fuel boiler. So if we have...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Real world running cost estimate for 20KW ASHP

In fairness there are unknowns with a retrofit, air changes and often fabric construction where upgrades/extensions have been made, and these unknowns...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Real world running cost estimate for 20KW ASHP

The '20kW' Warmflow (AS03-R32) is 20kW at 7C, falling to 14kW at -7. Not sure what your design temp is but it does sound rather oversized, and like o...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Why are heat pumps so hated?

Well probably I would (it's inevitable that some things are several layers down in menus because there are so many things you can change these days, a...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Why are heat pumps so hated?

Also its a change, and people hate/are scared of change. In cases of change I always like to think about the counterfactual. Suppose that heat pu...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

I couldn't agree more with that, and this applies the system design (particularly for retrofit) and installation as well as the units themselves. Cur...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Anyone installed a 12kw Samsung gen7 that is 0.07 over the permitted development rules?

Good luck, I hope your LPA is more enlightened than mine!

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

@persephone I sympathise with your position but ... have you considered the possibility that nobody is at fault. Just because somebody has been har...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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