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I agree @toodles that for me with limited resources they are the best deal - plus I really liked the lead installer (who may not be my installer -dunn...
OK! An update from 🐙 I'd be very interested in your opinions please. They are now proposing a Daikin 6kw but were going to leave everything ...
@jancold Hi, I think you need a separate thread for this. My phone has been going off all morning... 🙉 🙂
@johnmo A Daikin EDLA04EV3 which is the starter of what Octopus fit is £3000+ in City Plumbing. Of course, Octopus have lots of clout so will have neg...
Ok... things have changed since this morning. I've 'met someone' ... 😁 Who has a similar opinion of MCS guidelines as me. I realised that...
@pie_eater I'm arguing with 🐙 on this too. It's very outdated thinking from CIBSE about 'how' we live in our homes. Many of us now work from...
@editor I can't afford to lose £350 on a survey plus their installation charges are a lot higher and there's not enough installers in the south west. ...
@dougmlancs I haven't had any further communication from 🐙 so I'm trying to get my ducks in a row before approaching them because I only want ...
@derek-m Thank you. This is my dilemma. The BG original proposal designed for no cavity wall insulation @ 45º and came up with a heat loss of 5.6 a...
@derek-m I was looking at both specially the red line for costs . I've posted those images before but no one said anything. Is heating capacity not w...
@derek-m But if 🐙 design for 50º and you want to run the system at say 35º then more watts are needed no? Or am I still drowning in the Delta ...
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RE: Should I change my cylinder when changing from a gas boiler to a heat pump.
I did the Heat Geek Mastery course a while ago and cyli...
By Mars , 20 minutes ago
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RE: Heat Geek Zero Disrupt: Are We Sleepwalking Into Another Race to the Bottom?
The Heat Geek survey and design process continues to ge...
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RE: Plug and play solar. Thoughts?
Impressions so far from the one I've installed are that...
By EtchedPixels , 10 hours ago
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@batpred The Daikin temperature probe protrudes from th...
By Toodles , 14 hours ago
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RE: Air source heat pump roll call – what heat pump brand and model do you have?
@editor And as an occasional contributor, may I say wel...
By Toodles , 16 hours ago
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RE: Should Households Who Can Afford It Pay More for Energy to Help Those Who Can't?
They don't have to try. Our entire system is d...
By EtchedPixels , 16 hours ago
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RE: Why don't people choose heat pumps?
Fair enough. I guess I was thinking of pipes that run ...
By JamesPa , 16 hours ago
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RE: How Can I Prove Coal Was My Main Heating Source Without Receipts?
Got excepted for the grant now so thanks for the replie...
By Chilli304 , 20 hours ago
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Daikin Altherma 3 R F+W, room thermostat control, weath...
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RE: Buffer tank on a 2 x 14kw Ecodan system
Pretty much as I had guessed in my crude scaling from m...
By JamesPa , 1 day ago
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RE: Help me keep the faith with my air source heat pump installation
Well you have a vibration generator running at some fre...
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
@downfield Thats a decent rate, I’m shocked they hadn...
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RE: Adventures in heat loss calculations
@toodles thanks! So as suspected, around a doubling of ...
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