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@jeegnesh some small points to supplement what James wrote above. First the easy answer on your OP. It is very normal to have huge electrical consum...
Our 7kW Vaillant is wall mounted, no problem neat installation, noise minimal. It’s on the Vaillant recommended brackets. It’s not absolutely simple i...
@jamespa I’m less inclined to believe the shift of taxes onto electricity was to cripple the transition as unintended consequences. There’s plenty of ...
We have the original FIT tariff (very nice indeed thanks) and it’s long since paid for. Without finding the paperwork it was ‘inflation linked’. So ...
@editor contuning your theme of MCS. I started reading the audit committee investigation on the insulation scandal and Ian Rippon was explaining how g...
@colinc good luck with your project! UFH is the absolute best from both comfort and ASHP efficiency. We have it in the extension and wish we had elsew...
Yes! Our method of working is one of us does the analysis/ research (which is me on renewable stuff) and the other checks the logic and arithmetic. It...
Quite honestly I don’t know. We’re very pleased with our system, and are gas free, so we save money each year. But the payback time (at current pric...
we have a 7kW Valliant which has been running quietly and well for a year with a very satisfying SCOP of 4.7. Other people have had noise issues eg @j...
I’ve been reading to find out about the Bosch and you’re learning fast. Just for info our Vaillant is giving a cop of 5-6 in this mild weather. Our de...
From the time I was a physics undergraduate it’s been 25 years off. I’ve now retired and it’s still 25 years off. So it’s had a lot of investment th...
Sadly I think it is mad. If the BUS is not granted for too low a system SCOP (I forget the exact system interface definitions and numbers) then who pa...
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