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Mike Patrick

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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...

6 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

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...

7 months ago

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Government Schemes, Regulations, Training, Planning & Organisations

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

7 months ago

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Government Schemes, Regulations, Training, Planning & Organisations

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...

7 months ago

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Government Schemes, Regulations, Training, Planning & Organisations

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...

7 months ago

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Government Schemes, Regulations, Training, Planning & Organisations

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...

7 months ago

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Government Schemes, Regulations, Training, Planning & Organisations

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...

7 months ago

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Government Schemes, Regulations, Training, Planning & Organisations

RE: RDSAP10 effect on existing heat pump EPC rating?

With the change to RdSAP in June I have just followed up with an EPC assessor to ask if it would make a difference to get our house re-rated. We have ...

7 months ago

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Government Schemes, Regulations, Training, Planning & Organisations

RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

In the FT today, a report that heat pump take up in Europe has failed, so far, to meet expectations. Mike

8 months ago

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Renewables News

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...

1 year ago

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Government Schemes, Regulations, Training, Planning & Organisations

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

Great track. Love it. Mike

1 year ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

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...

1 year ago

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