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Mike Patrick
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Joined: Mar 23, 2021
Last seen: Jan 13, 2026
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RE: RDSAP10 effect on existing heat pump EPC rating?

@tim441 I share your frustration with the EPC ratings. Attached is an extract from my new EPC which was done this week. You'll see that the Main Heati...

5 days ago
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RE: RDSAP10 effect on existing heat pump EPC rating?

Finally, good news on my EPC assessment. Having got (as was predicted) nowhere with Elmhurst Energy (accreditation scheme for my previous EPC) I hav...

6 days ago
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RE: Defrost behaviours

The current cold spell from the start of the year has prompted me, yet again, to review the daily kWh usage of our (Grant Aerona) ASHP. Overall hous...

1 week ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: RDSAP10 effect on existing heat pump EPC rating?

@judith This is very interesting. I've located and printed out Michael De Podesta's latest "A" rated EPC to compare it with my own "D" rated one. Bo...

3 months ago
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RE: RDSAP10 effect on existing heat pump EPC rating?

Just returning to this issue after a few days working in Riyadh. Lots of heat pumps there but for aircon rather than heating! Petrol is about 40 pence...

3 months ago
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RE: Daikin Octopus installation update - I saw my first defrost. 😍😂

@editor Just had my first defrost of this season. Outside temperature dropped to 6C overnight, so well off freezing. But it was a damp foggy mo...

3 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: RDSAP10 effect on existing heat pump EPC rating?

Two steps forward and one back. A further "conversation" with ChatGPT contradicted some information in the first one and I am now back to reviewing th...

3 months ago
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RE: RDSAP10 effect on existing heat pump EPC rating?

Tim,   Yes ChatGPT thought I could get another 10 points just for that change. That would get me over the line to a C.   Mike

3 months ago
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RE: RDSAP10 effect on existing heat pump EPC rating?

Thanks for this. ChatGPT has proved very helpful. It helped me identify that the problem with the EPC is probably down to just one word. It rates th...

3 months ago
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RE: RDSAP10 effect on existing heat pump EPC rating? _ Heat Pump worse than a Storage Heater!!

Here's the EPC printout to illustrate the point I made in a post last week. Sorry to keep banging on about this - but it is bonkers. On the left the...

3 months ago
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RE: RDSAP10 effect on existing heat pump EPC rating?

This is interesting. Attached is the page from my EPC which shows the Poor rating of the Main Heating and Hot Water. You've prompted me to look at t...

4 months ago
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RE: RDSAP10 effect on existing heat pump EPC rating?

Our circumstances were slightly different in that the current EPC was issued after a ground up restoration of a semi-derelict building. We'd had a ful...

4 months ago
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