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That shows a highly respectable COP of about 3 each month. Good choice on your part. How zero disrupt was it? Did you need upgrade of the pie work d...
The ashp measures exit and return flow temperatures which are usually designed for up to 5C. Thermistors have a measurement uncertainty of about 0.5C,...
@davidb you have said that your house is very well insulated and therefore your heating will be lower compared to your DHW usage. Michael de Posesta...
We moved to induction hob to be gas free. But I have to say it is MUCH nicer than gas, even quicker to warm up and obviously much easy to clean. We ...
Mick Wall has written up a good article about the modes, better than I can. Please ask more questions if you need to. There’s info on the app too.
Thats generous! Does the small print of the grant allow DIY? In UK it has to be a MCS registered professional( doesn’t guarantee competence) and repla...
This week was very mild here so our 7kW heat pump reports a COP for the week of 4.8 for combined heating and DHW. Our house requires ~8kW when -5C whi...
@dr_dongle we use Cosy (another octopus tarrif and together with the battery in January our average electricity price was 18p. So we used more on some...
The generally accepted ratio from the 50Pa test to natural usage is 20. But I wanted to understand why and can’t now re-find the references I used to ...
Mick Wall has a very thorough measurement set of air changes per hour for his house, on his web site/p>
@adam awesome trouble-shooting I’m seriously impressed. Congratulations so far!
If this genuinely does the remedial work then yes good idea, also good if jobs are finished not left at 90% complete. But the cowboys doing some of th...
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