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Joined: Apr 3, 2023
Last seen: Aug 19, 2025
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RE: Share Your Experiences with Heat Pump Manufacturer Support

Fwiw I called my installer out for the first time a few weeks ago for a mix of odd faults. Like you I had cleaned out the mag filter. After a few m...

1 week ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Share Your Experiences with Heat Pump Manufacturer Support

Bit of a concern here. Hive and heat pumps don't really play well together. External controls, other than the few specifically designed for heat pum...

1 week ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Long term efficiency degradation

It's a good question to which I have never seen any answers. The princial mechanisms I can think of are wear and tear on the compressor and bunging u...

1 week ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Sunamp Thermino Heat Battery

Interesting, I must reread the BUS rules for this combo.... ....Ok the relevant rules are below. I can't see how a heat pump with electric only ...

2 weeks ago
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Domestic Hot Water & Cylinders
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RE: Sunamp Thermino Heat Battery

Depends on your electricity tariff and in particular your export tariff, also on time of year. So for example my import tariff is 7p midnight-7am, 2...

2 weeks ago
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Domestic Hot Water & Cylinders
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RE: Planning Permission May 2025

Fair enough. I have read the legislation and MCS020a several times so am pretty sure of my interpretation.

2 weeks ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Planning Permission May 2025

Where does it state this please? Im genuinely interested to know as I cant find it, and would like to correct my information if its wrong. Depen...

2 weeks ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Octopus Cosy & Octopus EV + bidirectional smart tariff, together. What, eh?

Agree. To me it misses the obvious fit namely 'second' cars, more likely to be secondhand. Still it's a start!

2 weeks ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Planning Permission May 2025

In England that is no longer the case although you have to read source documents carefully to figure this out. I cant comment on Scotland, Wales and ...

2 weeks ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: ASHP heat output monitoring

As you say its poor either way. I have tried to find out how they calculate it from the manual (which is pretty poor) but cannot. I will keep trying...

2 weeks ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: ASHP heat output monitoring

Same with Vaillant btw

2 weeks ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: 300 Liter Tank - Do I have to heat it all?

That sounds like change of use from domestic to mixed domestic/industrial (or possibly sui generis) so would probably need planning consent.

2 weeks ago
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Domestic Hot Water & Cylinders
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