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Thats the provocative statement yes, but OK its the extreme to stimulate out of the box thinking. Currently most HP retrofits seem to involve changin...
@derek-m According to MCS accounts they are funded mostly by 'trading activity'. More specifically: According to its website MCS became a chari...
Thanks for this. I can only see manufacturer data here not 'real world situations'. Am I missing something? My analysis used manufacturer data (f...
Quite so. I suspect it might have been deliberate on the part of MCS (a private monopoly) when they wrote the definition of 'the MCS Planning Standar...
yes and I think many others would too (I have considered it and my LPA have, off the record, suggested I could probably get away with it). But ...
@chickenbig As you say the PD rules say that 'Development is not permitted by Class G unless the air source heat pump complies with the MCS Planning S...
"for me the key bit that is not obvious to me is who are the umbrella organisation providing training and support to make sure these installs are don...
As above I think this is a good list I would add Permitted development rules modified so that the noise condition set out in MCS-020 applies...
PS, I started this because I am interested in understanding potential, not for me (I've pretty much worked that out), but more generally. My current...
Can I cross-post your proposal (with credit or without as you prefer) to buildhub. There are some reactionaries on there who seem to criticise everyt...
@iancalderbank I agree its a risk, but as you say it happens already. So I currently face paying a large amount of money to an (often fly by night) '...
@bontwoody Yes true. Having said that I would personally prefer to have (or at least trend towards) solutions that don't rely on government subsidies....
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