Last seen: May 24, 2023
@transparent Our mains water quality is fine - just on the hard side. Water analysis found no scaling in our system, no biological contamination on ...
@derek-m Have done/am doing so, via Hydratech -/p> They found no inhibitors in the hot water side, and the pH was 6. They are analysing the ...
We have now discovered possible corrosion on the refrigerant side, as well as on the hot water side, of our Ground Source Heat Pump. Several temperatu...
Thanks for your very informative missive! I'm curious as to the monitoring device that you mention - but I presume it is not available to consumers? W...
A footnote: we have installed electricity meters to measure the electricity use of the Ground Source Heat Pump and our borehole pump so that we can ge...
Ok - I've got a quite an experience, now being investigated by the Energy Ombudsman. I switched to Octopus to benefit from their Outgoing Octopus tari...
Hi Tim - Re: your issue with determining efficiency - we have a 17kW Vaillant ground source heat pump that we installed five years ago and have been q...
NEWS - Vaillant replied in writing to my complaint after I sent it to their headquarters in Germany, to the attention of their Chief Executive Officer...
@transparent I'm sending all this info onto him and, hopefully, he will respond himself! I'm really impressed by the work you've done, and by the D...
@transparent Many thanks for this info - we will certainly be doing some work on our system and this will be part of that, thanks to these discussions...
thanks, will order one up and call the electrician asap!
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You’re absolutely right that during defrost the refrige...
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