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Joined: Mar 23, 2021
Last seen: Aug 16, 2025
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RE: The EPC Dilemma: How Current Ratings Fail Heat Pumps

I've commented earlier in this thread, finding the same problems with our EPC. Yes, its a known problem with the methodology and the government is tak...

6 months ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: Daikin Octopus installation update - I saw my first defrost. 😍😂

Great track. Love it. Mike

7 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Not a good January? My heat pump used 840 KWh of electricity

Yes, it was much colder this January than in 2024. My own daily measurements show it here in West Oxofordshire. Dotted lines on the chart are last...

7 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Daikin Octopus installation update - I saw my first defrost. 😍😂

No-one has suggeted that although I've checked myself that the exhaust air is clearing the ASHP. It's not so much a hollow as a gentle slope of the ga...

7 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Daikin Octopus installation update - I saw my first defrost. 😍😂

@toodles I've not been able to catch a defrost so recorded a time lapse video (view with link, file is mp4 about 44MB).This was taken at 1 second inte...

7 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Not a good January? My heat pump used 840 KWh of electricity

Not a good January for me: All electric house so these are total kWh figures, not just ASHP 150 sqm 3 bed, detached fully insulated property wit...

7 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: ECO4 Scheme and EPC ratings

I've just re-discovered this report from The Telegraph, in February 2022. The wheels of government certainly run slowly. Mike

7 months ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: Ripped Off: How UK Homeowners Are Paying Gas Prices for Wind Energy

@lucia While accepting the point about not wanting to disadvantage low income consumers it seems crazy to address the problem through playing around w...

8 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Heat Pump starting current

@cathoderay Ditto my Grant ASHP, During last week's cold spell it spent much of each day frosting then clearing, even down to -6C which was the lowest...

8 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: What to Expect During Your First Winter with a Heat Pump

Sadly it is all too common that the first winter is a nasty shock for new heat pump owners. There is nothing about this in any government information ...

8 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?

Received an email today from British Gas informing me that I had saved the princely sum of £2.36 in November from using their cheap Sunday electricity...

9 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?

I switched to British Gas (from EDF) in the summer to a 14 month fix at 24.72p in the day and 14.34p at night. Given current price forecasts that expi...

9 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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