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@ellyse feel free to keep asking! Especially when you get responses from surveyors that you want help to understand or are not convinced by.
I’ve no issues with an annual service of an ashp in particular to keep the warranty up. But I’ve noticed on our new hot water cylinder that it states ...
I believe that everyone who is considering getting a heat pump, whether free like @ellyse or paying about half (us with the BUS grant) should investig...
The one point of what you’ve shared so that concerns me most is the phrase “each seemed to have limited permissions to discuss it”. Any installer or s...
Question first to @lucia Why? what each of us need is a method of controlling the temperature of our house. Each ashp has an interface to do that. T...
Your installer’s suggestion of 12+6 is the best suggestion. You can always add more blocks (with its own optimiser) later. Aas a bungalow you avoid ...
In terms of effort and return it’s a very silly game. I will use an hour of my time to save ~80p on Octopus free electricity including the gaming of...
@ianmk13 I’m glad someone replied who is monitoring using Predbat, since I’m lurking at a further distance. (I’m not currently Home Assistant (HA) com...
There is plenty of analysis (universities and consultants) which showed the UK may have a target of 2035 to be net zero on electricity production (and...
@ash2020 sorry to mislead you. You can’t design your ufh in it but once your house is entered you can check your ufh design matches your room heat los...
There is definitely HA &a GivEnergy system for using ashp and agile and a very active community forum. In addition there is a Predbat HA tool av...
Heatpunk is pretty good for a house heat loss, which you need to start.It’s easier than many tools and with reasonable output displays. It allows ufh ...
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