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MCS accredited. Mainly for RHI but also because they have to do all the assessments and heat loss calcs the MCS way.
@EmmCee, I'm not an expert but I don't think there is anything special about the pipes an ASHP needs other than there may be issues if you mix pipe ...
Hi @EmmCee and welcome to the forum. I don't know much about pellet boilers but have just had an ASHP installed in a house with no previous central h...
what, no battery lawnmower? tsk tsk, I expected better of you Julian. 😉
It was me. Our non heating and HW usage is consistently about 12 kWh/day through the year so if you're using 30kWh/day in January you're doing much be...
That's quite a novel use of storage heaters. But maybe yours it's the sort of hybrid approach needed where gas is still used but consumption is reduc...
@mike-patrick, good to know you're making some progress. Our May consumption was about 30kWh/day, of which 16 was the ASHP. April (which was much ...
@foggy, an understandable choice. I will tell anyone who asks gas is about half the price of an ASHP to install and run. If my house had gas CH I wo...
It's happening in the UK too. A trial with Ovo energy and Nissan.
@morgan, it's always been like this. Look at the price of cars; they are normally the same number in $/£ despite the exchange rate.
@derek-m, a question for you which isn't directly ASHP related. I understand the basics of a non combi boiler HW cylinder but there is one thing I've ...
@foggy, I am not a heating engineer but from what you say, there is no reason why an ASHP won't work for you. But the economics work in the favour of...
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@editor does that mean you have to have two separate ex...
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