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RE: Was your heat pump installed by an MCS accredited installer?

MCS accredited. Mainly for RHI but also because they have to do all the assessments and heat loss calcs the MCS way.

4 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Complete novice in need of advice

@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 ...

4 years ago
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Introductions, Forum Rules & Updates
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RE: Complete novice in need of advice

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...

4 years ago
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Introductions, Forum Rules & Updates
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RE: Air source heat pump performance

what, no battery lawnmower? tsk tsk, I expected better of you Julian. 😉

4 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Air source heat pump performance

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...

4 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: The ASHP industry is not helping itself.

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...

4 years ago
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RE: Air source heat pump performance

@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 ...

4 years ago
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RE: The ASHP industry is not helping itself.

@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...

4 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Electric vehicles

It's happening in the UK too. A trial with Ovo energy and Nissan.

4 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: The ASHP industry is not helping itself.

@morgan, it's always been like this. Look at the price of cars; they are normally the same number in $/£ despite the exchange rate.

4 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Air source heat pump performance

@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 ...

4 years ago
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RE: The ASHP industry is not helping itself.

@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...

4 years ago
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