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All great advice 👍 Going back to radiators and pipework sizing, once you have a heat loss calculation, broken down room by room, you can st...
Hi @fretless6 Mike, I have experience with Taggas (Retford), as they installed my system (a 12kW Samsung unit) on an ECO4 grant. The design proces...
@toodles I watched with interest too. My first thoughts was that it would be a good addition to run alongside/in addition to Cosy in winter (I still...
Agreed. When I first looked into domestic wind, my initial impressions were there are easier ways of generating 2.5kW of intermittent renewable power ...
My limited understanding is that small scale domestic wind is simply not practical. The size of the turbine (blades) and mounting height above roof/tr...
We were extremely lucky with our system, and I've never really needed to do any balancing. With all LSVs fully open, all radiators get warm, even thos...
@jamespa This does make me wonder though, how much more energy does the typical household use to heat a house constantly at 21C (heat pump) versus the...
Flow is what transfers heat, so when you say take heat from upstairs to downstairs, what you mean is to increase the flow downstairs by limiting the f...
Absolutely, this is typical usage for Octopus Cosy users, where the daytime cheap rate slot is 1-4pm. I know from my own experience and usage data, th...
I agree. The more I read, the more I feel there are multiple disparate organisations, with no clearly coordinated plan of action compounded by the fac...
Agreed, however it is not so easy when replacing an oil boiler. When replacing my oil boiler I did not think to time on/off usage over a fixed period ...
Sounds a lot, but in context google tells me: National Grid is undertaking a massive, multi-billion pound upgrade to the UK electricity network to...
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If you freeze water it expands. That's been a big probl...
By EtchedPixels , 26 minutes ago
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RE: Heat pump branding. Clever, contemporary… or a bit too much?
Ultimately they are trying to make it possible for low ...
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This post is about how I successfully configured a buff...
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The installer visited yesterday and suggested the noise...
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RE: Heat Geek installations: share your experiences
I struggled with this problem as well. An independent t...
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RE: HeatGeek vs Octopus surveys: puzzling disparity - any ideas why?
Your house sounds a lot like mine. 2 surveyors each sp...
By JamesPa , 5 hours ago
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RE: Heat Geek Zero Disrupt: Are We Sleepwalking Into Another Race to the Bottom?
Thats true only if you do the wrong experiment. Done c...
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RE: How should the Boiler Upgrade Scheme be reformed?
@temperature_gradient Isn't that just describing a regu...
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RE: battery storage without solar
As of October 1st they need specific qualifications to ...
By EtchedPixels , 18 hours ago
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RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News
With regards to the BUS grant raid, I gave it more thou...
By ASHP-BOBBA , 19 hours ago
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RE: Why are ASHP installs so expensive?
The whole system seems to work on the basis of...
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RE: Missing flow temperature in Heat Geek proposal
Good plan. If you can get half hourly meter readings a...
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RE: Heat Pumps Without Grants: Would You Have Installed One & Will You Now?
@editor Most certainly. The heat pump was an ideal s...
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RE: Does anyone have experience of a smart water meter?
Yep I caught our slow leak from a £100 bill rise 8)
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