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Last seen: Apr 25, 2026
What does your Suncalc website say for June sunshine? Our neighbours have tall trees but in the 6 months of summer we still get good generation. Thi...
The government has just closed a consultation on the principles of updating the EPC. See here/p> And will further consult on the details (as stated ...
Thank you James for such a complete write up. We also have a 7kW Vaillant installed in our case by a “Heatgeek Elite”. Our house is also 200m^2 and fr...
Is this going to be useful guys? Just trying to move it back into contention. is it a useful but small step or irrelevant for example?
Don't forget there is no such thing as zero loss insulation and trunking! So inside the envelope is best everything else looses some heat to the exter...
Please provide photos or model if you can find it in a builders merchants. Even if yours isn’t airtight it might be an easy change. Someone might re...
@adamk we only switch ours on when the temp gets down to about 2C and it has 2 fan speed settings, purely manual obviously. Our house has doors on eve...
We have outside canopies which we roll down to reduce the (extreme) heating effect of large south facing windows and patio doors. In the kitchen this ...
@majordennisbloodnok we have an under plinth heater (a Myson) and it was set up for occasional heating with the gas boiler. The only change for use on...
Our DHW this year (Jan & Feb) has given a COP of 3.6. That is 5 days a week heating to 48C once a day at 1pm and once a week to 69C for a legionn...
@michellec I suspect @transparent means neat and tidy work, which you have reasonably expected. Plus with the detailed implementation to keep water ou...
@benseb that sounds a good point from which to start. Since our battery is just a third of your size I would be heating in just the low cosy period an...
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RE: Anyone concerned about GivEnergy?
Yes and no. Native controllers generally do a good jo...
By Majordennisbloodnok , 4 hours ago
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RE: A2A vs A2W: Which Heat Pump Would You Pick?
@temperature_gradient I've had air-to-air for just over...
By Anne Smith , 9 hours ago
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RE: Home automation and the cloud; is there a better way?
+1 It's not just cloud though. Many devices have repla...
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RE: End-of-Life Heat Pumps: How Do You Dispose of an ASHP in the UK?
We've started to document everything, and part 2 of the...
By Mars , 14 hours ago
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RE: Summer usage. Why is my Vaillant Aerotherm using so much energy on "heating"?
So the red bars are 'DHW' and the yellow bars 'heating'...
By JamesPa , 16 hours ago
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Its good kit the Midea and significantly cheaper, you w...
By ASHP-BOBBA , 19 hours ago
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RE: Indevolt Batteries UK Support & Info Thread
Have you tried cutting the grid feed to see what actual...
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By ASHP-BOBBA , 19 hours ago
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RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News
Critics and naysayers will be negative whatever the gov...
By JamesPa , 19 hours ago
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RE: Microbore heat pump installs
In principle you are almost certainly right, but in pra...
By JamesPa , 1 day ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions
@old_scientist We are a low mileage home, so bulk of ou...
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There are just too many unknowns for me to comment on p...
By Transparent , 1 day ago
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RE: What is the main ‘dictator’ of Agile’s unit price?
@toodles I keep an eye on wholesale prices and energy m...
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RE: Brand and installer questions for ASHP
Strange, perhaps it doesnt use modbus which the third p...
By JamesPa , 1 day ago
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RE: Upgrading my system, how far do I go?
For comparison, my PW3 with 11.04kW inverter, will char...
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RE: Changes to Tesla Powerwall Charging Regime?
Elon gate - legendary! I take my hat off to you @toodle...
By Old_Scientist , 2 days ago
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RE: Mitsubishi Ecodan not good enough ?
Thanks @goody, appreciate the feedback and sorry you ha...
By marcexec , 2 days ago
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RE: Minimum and Zero Disrupt Heat Pump Installations
True (first sentence) Thats the reason to consider th...
By JamesPa , 3 days ago
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RE: High air source heat pump running costs – Vaillant AroTherm Plus
Quite right. I was using a rough guesstimate of doublin...
By Majordennisbloodnok , 3 days ago
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RE: My Grant R290 9kW Heat Pump Installation
Again, really don't know how accurate this is! &nb...
By petch , 3 days ago
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RE: MCS Quality Audit – Has Anyone Had One? Did It Lead to Remediation?
@toodles The whole scheme is a shocking waste of money....
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RE: DIY or Don’t Touch? Solarman Smart Meter Install
Yes, and these guys would probably be my preferred inst...
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RE: Hot water tank lose heat rapidly on random days
@jamespa Hopefully their reasons are well intended! ...
By Bash , 4 days ago
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RE: Ecoflow UK Support & Info Thread
As mentioned above, we’ve got our full review of the Ec...
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