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Last seen: Sep 15, 2026
Sounds like something expanding somewhere, perhaps then hitting up against something.
Personal choice but without a doubt my heating pump copes better with the season ends than my boiler did. The boiler just overheated the house or cau...
We turned it off a few weeks ago then turned it back on again. Im expecting to turn it off again. Our house exhibits similar behaviour to that descr...
They aren't. The problem is that thermal stores generally need high temperatures to store sufficient usable energy for typical hot water needs, much ...
I think the laws of thermodynamics pretty much guarantee anything that starts of ordered gets less ordered, and this in turn pretty much guarantees it...
Sorry OAT = Outdoor air temperature, IAT = indoor air temperature, FT = flow temperature, DT = difference between two temperatures, often flow and ret...
Annual consumption is almost certainly better than an EPC. If you have daily consumption (which you can plot Vs OAT) and provided your house is reaso...
No rule that says we do so far as I know. Like much of the burden, this is self inflicted by some installers so far as I can tell, but not by others...
... or collectively take responsibility for our own decisions, including the ones we make in the ballot box, rather than always blaming it in others. ...
The latest Vaillant announcement I saw said that they were moving away from ebus for communication between controller and ODU ('in order to increase c...
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We kept ours and Heat Geek would have been in touch if ...
By Batpred , 50 minutes ago
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
Hope you are hearing from a good source? Call me old ...
By Batpred , 53 minutes ago
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RE: Missing flow temperature in Heat Geek proposal
The Heat geek contract had various get-out clauses with...
By Batpred , 3 hours ago
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RE: Why are ASHP installs so expensive?
It seems a quite comprehensive breakdown. I will try to...
By Batpred , 3 hours ago
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RE: Starting Our Heat Pump Journey: 1962 build 3 bed detached house
@ian-s I would encourage you to have a conversation ...
By Rob of York , 9 hours ago
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RE: Is it the house or the equipment?
Thanks @jamespa The last hard to fix draughts in the...
By springswood , 10 hours ago
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RE: Vaillant Arotherm – Using Heating
@l8again Mine is typically using 11w including the i...
By Batpred , 12 hours ago
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RE: Next steps on my ASHP journey: Radiators and Pipework
If you have a flowmeter and two temperature probes, the...
By bobflux , 21 hours ago
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RE: Siting of the external sensor on a heatpump
@jamespa Absolutely. Even if the same mistake was mad...
By Batpred , 1 day ago
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RE: Recommendations in Ely (Cambs) area for Full setup checks on Nibe HP setup for House.
In fairness all heating has cost a lot to run in recent...
By JamesPa , 2 days ago
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RE: Navigating the World of Refrigerants In Heat Pumps: A Guide for Homeowners
Indeed we are invvestigating AC at present and are havi...
By Toodles , 3 days ago
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RE: Daikin ESPAltherma and Home Assistant installation
It's laziness lol The PV system is very chatty, meter...
By bobflux , 4 days ago
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RE: Problems with sizing a replacement for a Viessmann Vitocal 200-S
R (The R Project for Statistical Computing, I use it wi...
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