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While heat pump installs remain expensive (before BUS grant) compared to gas boilers, how can we ever get to the take up needed to transition the majo...
Posted by: @jamespa You can avoid this by knowing what your house loss either from a single survey or your gas consumption, and roughly how many rad...
@springswood Your real world quotes leave me completely puzzled as to how the prices are justified in cost terms. Assuming refundable deposits, t...
Posted by: @jamespa Thats very interesting, I am on a Local Authority group which is looking at how to smooth the end to end process for various ty...
I agree with @majordennisbloodnok that independent surveyors should take responsibility / liability for the accuracy of their heat loss surveys. Then ...
One area where the whole process seems to be broken to me is the lack of separation between (i) heat loss survey and (ii) installation. These require ...
Thanks @jamespa The gas fire is definitely not an essential part of the heating system, since the gas central heating manages to cover the full heat...
We currently have a gas boiler used for central heating and hot water, two A2A units capable of heating and cooling, and a separate gas fire in the li...
@ian-s I would encourage you to have a conversation with HG at this stage rather than stop at this point. You might still call a halt later, but yo...
@springswood Gas connection / disconnection is the responsibility of your energy provider i.e. Octopus, so you could ask them. I know they do discon...
Posted by: @grahamf if you are planning to install a flow meter, I would suggest considering a heat meter instead Thanks for the link to the mo...
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