Last seen: Jul 22, 2025
@allyfish, I agree Attached EPC extract compares my own house with a neighbour's. It's laughable that the gov't wants to encourage the use of heat p...
I've just returned after a couple of days away, when the air temperature has hovered around Zero most of the time and find that kWh consumption has, p...
@allyfish Good point. Judging by how hot to the touch it is sometimes I suspect the tank is not insulated. The replacement will be a smaller (30L) i...
Latest update on the leaking buffer tank....... The one used on my system has been discontinued. Grant now use a volumiser/LLH which sits outside, n...
@derek-m I don't think the photo attached properly to my last post. Here it is Mike
@derek-m I've been away over New Year and as I always do on returning home, took a look in the heating cupboard to see if all is well, or not, with ou...
A post-script to my recent issues now that the weather is unseasonably warm after being so cold. Daily kWh usage is down to 1/4 of what it was 2 days ...
@transparent West Oxfordshire Mike
@hughf Thanks for this. I would love to get all that data but I see the Open Energy kit is about £600 and would be beyond my level of expertise to ins...
@parmstar I'm sorry to hear you are having these problems. They will be familiar to many of us on the forums. My personal view is that the MCS regis...
@hughf Figures I can only dream of - both that they are so low and you can get that information out of your ASHP. The Grant produces no accessible dat...
My 5 day moving average electricity use is 85kWh, and median outdoor temperature -1, but dropping to -8 at night. Although the timer is correctly se...
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