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It's a known technique and heat pump manufacturers even sell 'backup heaters'. There is a reasonable engineering argument for it to deal with extremes...
@pash44pump It sounds like they may be a bit scared which is definitely to your advantage. You have done a good job. The only comment I would ma...
@drei When I was in local government we were of course under a duty to get best value, a duty we took very seriously BTW. Generally getting 3 or mo...
@drei I will say again that Im sorry to heat about your woes. Despite the fact that my heat pump install has been a sparkling success, Im angry too, ...
OK that's great. 3000l = 30MWh. This corresponds, almost certainly, to a loss between 10kW and 15kW. I would probably ask the installer to produce...
@pash44pump Ok that's a bit concerning. Is the difference down to the fact the as built spec for the building departs from the design spec? If so...
@drei Based on your recent posts, I am wondering what your original motivation was for a heat pump. I do understand you have had a poor experience (w...
I completely agree. The extent to which heat pump controllers allow you to do this and at the same time do things like set back/set forward seems t...
I'm guessing these are the mcs defaults which are likely an overestimate, particularly for your lounge which has a large volume but relatively small s...
That was actually very popular with pensioners for a while. Are you a pensioner? Birds and other animals do of course migrate, but many humans consi...
Do you happen to know your annual oil consumption. This can provide a sense check. What ach did you assume in your calcs?
Can I just say that I dont necessarily agree with that. The problem this may cause is that it will switch off the heat pump when the air temperature ...
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