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Our PV set-up has moved over time. Warning this is a shaggy dog story. Originally we had 17 Sharp panels on South facing roof giving 3.98kW of power...
@rob-of-york Hi Rob, we paid ~£350 for an air leakage test and it was worth every penny. It gave our installer hard evidence to not use the MCS defa...
I’m really liking reading through this thread and the robust logic being applied. My contribution is less analytical but may act as a sanity check. Yo...
Thank you Rusty, all of those subtleties were lost on me. Since I’m only ever a second-hand car buyer it does mean I will have limited options, but kn...
Are you aware that the Kia EV2 is one of the few models which will do vehicle to home/grid with an appropriate wall-box. That makes the NexBlue Point ...
Like @jamespa we ran our gas boiler at 55-60C for a year with 24hr operation and an overnight lower temperature. That was about the radiator limit an...
when our system was installed in September 2 years ago the house was already 25C inside. So with the heating mode set to target 35C the windows were w...
What an excellent extensive report. It sets my expectations back to 1-2degrees of cooling. Thank you very much
Our ashp service is booked for a couple of weeks from now and we’ve ask our installer to do the modification to allow it to cool. He reckons it might ...
@jamespa I assume “volunteer” should be volumiser?
@etchedpixels I did know about custom cut-outs in double glazing panels we had one years ago for a cat flap(!) Our house is detached and my tentativ...
@jandp awesome system I hope it works out well.
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RE: Should I change my cylinder when changing from a gas boiler to a heat pump.
I did the Heat Geek Mastery course a while ago and cyli...
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RE: Heat Geek Zero Disrupt: Are We Sleepwalking Into Another Race to the Bottom?
The Heat Geek survey and design process continues to ge...
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RE: Plug and play solar. Thoughts?
Impressions so far from the one I've installed are that...
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@batpred The Daikin temperature probe protrudes from th...
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RE: Air source heat pump roll call – what heat pump brand and model do you have?
@editor And as an occasional contributor, may I say wel...
By Toodles , 16 hours ago
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RE: Should Households Who Can Afford It Pay More for Energy to Help Those Who Can't?
They don't have to try. Our entire system is d...
By EtchedPixels , 16 hours ago
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RE: Why don't people choose heat pumps?
Fair enough. I guess I was thinking of pipes that run ...
By JamesPa , 16 hours ago
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RE: How Can I Prove Coal Was My Main Heating Source Without Receipts?
Got excepted for the grant now so thanks for the replie...
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Daikin Altherma 3 R F+W, room thermostat control, weath...
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RE: Buffer tank on a 2 x 14kw Ecodan system
Pretty much as I had guessed in my crude scaling from m...
By JamesPa , 1 day ago
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RE: Help me keep the faith with my air source heat pump installation
Well you have a vibration generator running at some fre...
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
@downfield Thats a decent rate, I’m shocked they hadn...
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RE: Adventures in heat loss calculations
@toodles thanks! So as suspected, around a doubling of ...
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