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@judith I would think Octopus are more likely to hand over the jobs in areas with no fitters. It's a massive problem around the country - my Octopus g...
@jancold oof.... My assessor guy did say there's 'shake ups' in the dept...lol! However he was quite proud to say they're totally in-house with syst...
@bontwoody Yes, that's another thing to weigh up in the swings and roundabouts dept. British Gas charge for it. I did tell the British gas guy I th...
@johnmo Oh, strictly open loop. No zoning and all rads no under floor heating.
@ivanopinion Lol... yes, they are insisting on a buffer. I wasn't going to push back on that because I knew it was pointless although I did say th...
I don't know anything about your heat pump or the water tank but it's following a pattern so it sounds like a programming input issue. Is the hot wa...
I've got Heat Pumps rising this week - energy efficiency things planned 9 months ago have landed all in the same week - EPC, GBIS assessment and both ...
@johnmo They can use H-Lan which works at 5ghz for better communication but they only fit those when there's a 'failure' because it costs lots more th...
I have found a new toy which is useful if taken as a general indication I have no idea how accurate it is but it comes (via open energy) from a Daik...
@gary Cosy is not unique to heat pumps. It's just an electricity tariff that 'may' be useful for heat pumps.
@jamespa I'm assuming he means a tariff specifically and uniquely offered for heat pumps - the heat pump itself would be metered. That's what I'm resp...
No, they shouldn't. Tariffs need to be redesigned to reduce the weighting on electricity and the politically motivated skewing that 'favours' gas ta...
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