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JamesPa
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RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

According to the report a real physical measurement was made inside the applicants house and gave a reading of NR23, 2dB below that required (at your ...

2 years ago
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RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

OK The actual text of the condition was: Within six weeks of the decision being issued, an ‘at-source’ noise survey at the Air Source Heat Pum...

2 years ago
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RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

If you post the link to the planning application I'm happy to take a look.

2 years ago
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RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

It will be in the planning application or the supporting documents, which will be (or at least should be) on the LPA's planning portal.

2 years ago
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RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

From what I recall The IoA spreadsheet doesn't bother with the last 4 steps in the MCS calculation. These steps are entirely pointless as the pass/fa...

2 years ago
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RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

I will try: predicted = (in both cases) as predicted by the documents submitted for the planning application (not sure what they said, but whate...

2 years ago
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RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

According to BS 8233 an attenuation of 15dB can be assumed for a wall with a window closed or ajar. So I would say very likely (according to BS 8233)...

2 years ago
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RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

Quite possibly true, but that's not the extrapolation the report seeks to make (as I understand it). It seeks to extrapolate from an NR achieved at o...

2 years ago
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RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

Of course not. I agree 100% that neither NAPIT nor MCS are the enforcement mechanism. They cannot be, because they are working for installers (a...

2 years ago
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RE: The weakest link – components of an installation team

My solar PV experience was in 2011 and actually very good in terms of the design/installation itself. It was done end to end by one guy running his o...

2 years ago
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RE: Misleading government advertising

@derek-m Fair cop (or COP?). That just shows how easy it is to interpret something in a way that one expects not read what it actually says. This is...

2 years ago
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RE: Misleading government advertising

Does it conflate the two, the bit about heat pumps (reproduced below) talks about energy efficiency not cost savings so far as I read it. I guess you...

2 years ago
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