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RE: Starting Our Heat Pump Journey: 1962 build 3 bed detached house

Have you considered keeping your FF boiler and supplementing it with an A2A heat pump (that can also provide cooling in summer). You could run it over...

2 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Flushing system, cleaning and inhibitor

Flush and fill all complete. Octopus kindly gave us an hour of free electricity today, so after heating the DHW to 57C (ASHP and immersion on full w...

2 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Do I add Air Con or MVHR to existing A2W ASHP?

Samsung (and another OEM) recently announced ASHPs that can do both A2A (for heating and cooling) and A2W for (heating and DHW) in one outdoor unit. I...

2 months ago
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Air-to-Air Heat Pumps & Air Conditioning
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RE: Do I add Air Con or MVHR to existing A2W ASHP?

Would something like the extremely popular Midea portable split unit work for you: I know a few people who have purchased such devices this year ...

2 months ago
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Air-to-Air Heat Pumps & Air Conditioning
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?

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

Microwaves are not very efficient at around 50-65%, but they are still better than an electric oven which can be as low as 40% if the seals are not gr...

2 months ago
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?

Did someone mention cake? I concur. Our two person household average is 12.5kWh. It was closer to 10kWh but has increased since getting our Powerwal...

2 months ago
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RE: Flushing system, cleaning and inhibitor

Yes, my 50L volumiser uses the two lower ports, so there's probably around 5-10L of dead space in the bottom for any debris to settle. Only niggle is ...

2 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Flushing system, cleaning and inhibitor

Thanks @papahuhu, I appreciate your help.  

2 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?

I saw mention of that optimised charging in an update release a few months back, but I've also never seen it in action on my PW3 - it always fully cha...

2 months ago
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RE: Flushing system, cleaning and inhibitor

@papahuhu It's definitely not slimy. It's dry and powdery. When I swabbed some on a dry cotton bud, I could see extremely fine orange dust in the...

2 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Flushing system, cleaning and inhibitor

The Y strainer has been cleaned a few times, and minimal amounts of small black debris was present each time. Definitely no concerns there. The magf...

2 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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