Last seen: Nov 27, 2025
Absolutely. Dont use it! Seriously Nest, like other smart thermostats (other than Homeley, Havenwise, Adia), are wholly unsuitable for heat pump co...
Hi Thanks for the extra info, it helps with the picture Just to confirm what is the make up of the downstairs flooring/insulation (you speak of su...
@trebor12345 As you can see the community is discussing ideas on how you might best control this system. I have been reading the user manual. You h...
I didn't know about that history. With the modern trend towards retrofitting UFH this means that we can expect a whole slew of failed heating install...
@bontwoody Given your experience from your previous house and given op has a 8kW heat pump for possibly a 2.5- 3.5kW house which takes 18hrs to co...
Thats really helpful. The plot produced is odd and to me smacks of flow temp reduction triggered by a control not by defrost. The temperature soon r...
Good. No need to apologise, despite the fact that the principles of heating are extremely simple, the wide variety of houses and the constantly varyi...
All noted. I can see whats happening but the drop in FT appears to occur just before the start of the plot and the onset of defrost, so is not obvio...
The problem is that you need to modulate down to <1kW because thats where the temperature sits most of the time. You wont find a heat pump or a bo...
Whatever you are experiencing in terms of house temperature is not, IMHO, going away 'simply' by getting another heat pump, and is likely to get even ...
I am far from convinced this will fix the problem because there isnt much out there < about 4kW, so not that much difference. I think there is a ...
Yes, but the lowest power heat pump you will get is ~5kW, so its still going to be cycling. A boiler will be much worse. Thus getting to grips with ...
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