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RE: Buying a house with an ASHP – what to look out for and what questions to ask?

If I were buying a place with tech I wasn't familiar with, I'd probably look for an expert to do an inspection. Surveyors are common for structural i...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Install a Grant Aerona 13kW instead of Mitsubishi Ecodan 11.2kW?

@FJJ Over the last few weeks I've commissioned a switch from an external Honeywell Lyric controller to using the ASHP's own controller. I need to wri...

3 years ago
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RE: Towel rails

If your towel rail has an electric heating element, one solution is to fit a boost timer on it. For example this one should be a drop-in replacement ...

4 years ago
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RE: Anyone want to share costs on batteries?

Just an addition on the subject of sourcing your own cells: a lot of the cells on offer on the likes of Aliexpress are some variation on factory rejec...

4 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Anyone want to share costs on batteries?

One solution to that is multiple batteries and multiple inverters: dual ME3000SP each feeding its own stack of batteries. Then they can operate in par...

4 years ago
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RE: Anyone want to share costs on batteries?

Let's price up some bits: Sofar ME3000SP battery storage inverter (3kW output): £780 Pylontech US2000 2.4kWh battery: £728 Total for inverter + ...

4 years ago
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RE: Balancing radiators with heatpumps

I found this helpful: Makes the point that what we really want is to balance the room temperatures, rather than the radiator temperatures, so thi...

4 years ago
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RE: Balancing radiators with heatpumps

@derek-m Thanks. For the purposes of balancing, does it matter if the value is 12, or 8 or 5, as long as they're all the same? In other words, when ...

4 years ago
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Balancing radiators with heatpumps
4 years ago
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RE: Whilst Regs allow on-off simple thermostats (Nest, Hive, Heatmiser, Honeywell, etc) Installers should never be responsible for failing heat pumps!

@alec-morrow I agree, but there are two different things people use controllers for. One is temperature control, ie the core control loop of when to...

4 years ago
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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls
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RE: Whilst Regs allow on-off simple thermostats (Nest, Hive, Heatmiser, Honeywell, etc) Installers should never be responsible for failing heat pumps!

@ianjrw As mentioned above, can you ask your installer about using the heatpump's own controller? What brand of heatpump are they suggesting? Let m...

4 years ago
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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls
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RE: Install a Grant Aerona 13kW instead of Mitsubishi Ecodan 11.2kW?

I don't know yet. Let me explain... I was in exactly the same situation 3 months ago - lead times on the Ecodan cylinders were out to 12 weeks and ...

4 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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