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I personally would characterise it as a process/standard designed such that, by following it a) MCS is protected b) the installer is protected ...
... except that the legal notice (part of which was reproduced above) gives a definition of surface which couldn't by any stretch include solar panels...
@baroquebank Heat loss calculations are based on imprecise (or incorrect) assumptions and so you should expect some spread. The industry likes to r...
I am trying, so far unsuccessfully, to get an answer to the simple question namely is it legal (given the hosepipe ban) to use a hose to clean ones ow...
After a short while that was followed by the 'power wars', where vacuum cleaners were sold on how much power they consumed (more being 'better') not h...
The press release says how it is funded for this financial year, it doesn't say that it applies only for this financial year. That's subtly, but impo...
I can believe that for everything other than things like energy that have price control. That said if the vat rate had been increased by the same a...
Whatever changes are made they won't be perfect, not least because each of the 70 million people in the country has their own definition of perfect an...
Reading between the lines of what octopus are doing with iog they have discovered that people only plug their cars in when they actually want to charg...
Yes, but they aren't fitted with 13A sockets for the very good reason that they are typically wired with cable that has insufficient capacity. ...
There are now a few heat pumps around that are fully self contained in the indoor unit, requiring 2 typically 200mm diameter holes through the outside...
No. I had the same charging arrangements for a couple of years and used Octopus Go and EON Next. I used a 16A Shelly relay embedded in t...
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RE: Vaillant ecoTEC Plus - Flow Temp and Set Up
That is not the case. The heating curve adjustment set...
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Please bear in mind, everyone, that in order to use thi...
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RE: The good, the bad and the not that great – my heat pump installation
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RE: I need help with Ecodan ASHP
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RE: 15kw pump for 225m2 1990's house - over kill?
@seaviews your installer would be right to say that the...
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RE: Tradespeople on Their Phones: What’s Acceptable When They’re Working in Your Home?
Actually, that's a very important point. I've only ev...
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RE: The Changing Jet Stream Could Challenge UK Air Source Heat Pumps
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RE: Aerotherm and weather compensation
These are likely inked. The basic explanation is tha...
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RE: Electrical works for air to air heat pump
agree with above. I have not had extra costs added wh...
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Good to hear that you found a solution. Absolutely a...
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RE: Are there any comparisons of DHW heat stores around?
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RE: How will removing the standing charge on gas bills benefit heat pumps?
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