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1) That's great that you've got UFH, it works great with heat pumps as it allows for low water temperatures whilst still being comfortable. You will h...
I've become quite active since I stopped lurking by trying to look at the simple things on questions from people struggling with costs etc running the...
@lucgw I'm sorry to hear about your problems. I suggest you make another thread about your system specifically to not get it confused (or maybe @edito...
@mcwatson1974 were those doors fitted when the heat loss survey was done or did you add them in afterwards? Your house must be incredibly efficient ot...
That's true, but it doesn't necessarily mean you need a hotter flow temperature (or stove top). Given enough time at the normal weather compensated fl...
This is my thought exactly. I suspect many of us were running at or below design temps (4 degrees below in my case), so is it any wonder the ASHPs wer...
It probably won't matter for this weekend or for a couple of days, but if you go away when it's as cold as it has been this week, remember that your h...
@cathoderay have you considered getting a Homely? And obviously I agree that the manufacturers should do better. It winds me up that they all have t...
@cathoderay I think one day you're just going to have to dive right into doing it from modbus yourself if there's not a starting point out there to he...
I have a latest generation Daikin LT Altherma unit. I have got a basic setup going by using a custom integration on Home Assistant to get some basic i...
I don't fault your maths for your use case, but a lot of people complaining don't know how to use their heat pumps properly. You can't go all that wro...
In short yes it does use more energy to do that. However, with your EV tariff it might be more complicated to tell you how not doing that would affect...
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