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@allyfish I rang our DNO on Friday they did the 60A to 80A swap on the Monday free. Did your heat pump require an electrical amp test? I don't...
@johnmo Hi Johnmo, I've looked on the data sheet and it does say 24A, recommended fuse 25A, so looks like it's the correct figures given to the ...
@jamespa Thanks JamesPa, Our DNO won't install anything more than 80A, in fact while they were changing our fuse, the neighbours came out and sai...
@allyfish Thanks. I'm just waiting for a date now for install, I signed last week. I'm hoping for what they told me, 4 to 6 weeks. Definitely...
@toodles Hi Toodles, That's good to know. I'm rated a "B" also on EPC. 5500 heat loss, 6700 rad output, 8 KW Daikin. I have been reading a...
@allyfish I quite agree. But the final price was £3600 less than Heat Geek quote and that's way more than any potential radiator upgrades that ma...
I've had a response from Octopus. "At Octopus Energy, we install a Volumiser, which has one inlet and one outlet for connection to the heat pump an...
@judith Hi Judith, There's no heat loss figure I can see on the report I received. The surveyor did say when he was finishing he up, it was a...
@editor Hi Mars, I could have made it clearer but the prices I initially gave were after the BUS amount, so Octopus £11600, Heat Geeks £13900. Oh a...
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