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Last seen: Sep 19, 2026
Setting up WC correctly is pretty much the most important thing to do with any heat pump. In summary: Turn up all thermostats and TRVs to full...
My cynical side says this is nothing to do with selling electricity and everything to do with getting a shoe in influence.
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Fair enough. I have read the legislation and MCS020a several times so am pretty sure of my interpretation.
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...
Agree. To me it misses the obvious fit namely 'second' cars, more likely to be secondhand. Still it's a start!
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 ...
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...
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RE: Recommendations in Ely (Cambs) area for Full setup checks on Nibe HP setup for House.
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