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@transparent thanks for clarifying. I really don’t see any alternative solution apart from a 14kw ashp, the problem with that is that it’s not suitabl...
@transparent thank you for your help. When you say reference to this topic, are you referring to this thread on this forum or is it supposed to be a c...
@editor I have spoken to them and they advised that I send a formal complaint to the installer in the first instance and allow them time to rectify. M...
@derek-m a bad design and install in that case! I’m lucky that we have had this cold spell within 3 weeks of install - do you know anything about cons...
@hughf Hi, it’s a third party 300l joule cylinder has one immersion directly wired to an iboost. Rads aren’t undersized - I went over and above what w...
These are the instructions - it may be installed in accordance as it only needs 100mm behind according this unless I’m reading it wrong
@morgan no other place to site it unfortunately - the installer never made me aware of any of this and claimed it would be fine as it’s within clearan...
sorry to hear this - we are having similar issues unfortunately! Ours has only been in 2 weeks so trying to exercise my consumer right to reject as it...
@hughf the immersion heater is connected to an iboost so isn’t linked with the melcloud also forgot to mention the ASHP is facing a fence and is pr...
@hughf flow temp is 50 but I have upped that to the max - most of the rads have been upgraded to much larger ones
@oswiu thanks for getting back to me. There is no way of monitoring energy usage for just the heat pump as they installed the wrong model of control u...
@oswiu attached a copy of the design document which was sent AFTER the install was done upon request - it’s a Mitsubishi ecodan 11kw
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