Last seen: Jan 8, 2025
Have they said why not? I was going to switch to them and get one. I won't be doing this now since because I have an E7 meter I would have to go ont...
Yes of course it is. But you will see lots of advice that warns against turning a heat pump off, ever, because it will take so much energy to start it...
@myanthony, about 70kWh per day is easily possible with an old house. As @oswiu asks, do you have any heat loss calculations? The ASHP you have is a...
This is very similar to what I do. I have a coal stove (sorry!) and no upstairs but the same idea. I reckon it saves 20% or so.
@mjr that Octopus tariff would work well for me I think. I don't have a smart meter but I'm going to try and switch and have Octopus install one.
Hi @myanthony and welcome and sorry to hear of your woes. A few details about your house and system would help. House size and type, ASHP model, radi...
@mjr is this the Octopus tariff you mean?
I agree; I did this slightly tongue in cheek but there are some hard and fast 'golden rules' quoted by so called experts that are definitely not the b...
In this really cold weather, your ASHP will probably be defrosting every hour or so. When it does, the flow temp will drop quite a bit. You might fi...
My holiday mode is set to the minimum, 20 deg. I go away a lot and I use that. If you have freeze stat enabled you could not bother with holiday mode...
I'm not sure your Ecodan could consume 40kWh in 4 hours on its own. That's a run rate of 10kW. The most power I've ever seen my 14kW Ecodan using is...
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