Last seen: Aug 11, 2025
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...
Same with Vaillant btw
That sounds like change of use from domestic to mixed domestic/industrial (or possibly sui generis) so would probably need planning consent.
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