Last seen: Dec 25, 2025
I certainly share your caution about privacy, but I have to admit I disagree with you on the smart meters; not on principle, but on practice. It's a...
Sorry to be something of a curmudgeon but I've just looked at the Octopus Compare app and it worries me. In order to use it, you are asked for your Oc...
Just received our reminder email for a service visit from our ASHP installer. This will be our first service given we only got it installed about 13 m...
Although we live in Surrey, the company we ended up settling on (Doré Woodman, as mentioned in multiple of my other posts) certainly also covers Kent ...
An expensive folly? No, it wasn’t. I have the luxury now of a full year’s data. I know how much oil I used with the old boiler I replaced and when d...
Unless you have a new version of the app that I haven’t seen, it won’t give real-time energy usage stats; only previous day and before. You can see cu...
Unfortunately can't see yesterday's consumption figures from Octopus; they're normally pretty good. Nonetheless... W/C 20th Nov Total consumed f...
As it happens, the various German car manufacturers have been badging their cars with numbers that relate to engine size and therefore, in theory, per...
In addition, @derek-m, that real world COP is being delivered by my (apparently very average - according to one expert) Mitsubishi unit. To me, that g...
I was, @derek-m, and I’ve been recommending them ever since. I was particularly impressed when our next door neighbours invited them round to give a q...
Nope. It’s running exactly as the installers left it, apart from putting it in holiday mode for a couple of weeks for the obvious reasons.
Not the easiest poll to answer since Mitsubishi publish multiple figures at different scenarios. Perhaps more telling, though, is what the heat pump...
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