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Joined: Oct 2, 2022
Last seen: Aug 1, 2025

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RE: The EPC Dilemma: How Current Ratings Fail Heat Pumps

@abernyte A ‘Housing Association’ type New Build. Toodles

1 year ago

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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations

RE: Daikin Altherma noisy heat pump - help and advice needed

@clairelp Bit of a bummer that, 24/7 is best I think, so shame this keeps you awake. Does sound like a plumbing issue rather than an ASHP issue anyway...

1 year ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Daikin Altherma noisy heat pump - help and advice needed

@clairelp If you can hear a ‘pumping sound’ then if you are sure it is not a pump in the airing cupboard (is there one in there?) perhaps there is air...

1 year ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

@persephone I can’t speak for others Persephone, but they (the MCS) certainly did check with me; I had a long phone call from them checking that the w...

1 year ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

@jamespa And much though I would like to ‘quieten’ the emergency services sirens, the motorway, 3 x A roads, a 24/7 food storage facility, Southern Re...

1 year ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Daikin Altherma noisy heat pump - help and advice needed

Is the noise emanating from the ASHP itself - or is it transmitted vibration into the wall from the rising pipes? There doesn’t appear to be a window ...

1 year ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

@persephone I suspect that the figures are arrived at by measurement ‘at source’ and at one or more points on the property at which the machinery is i...

1 year ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Electricity price predictions

@editor Consumers are failing to keep up payments for their energy bills; OK, to make up for this, we’ll impose a further burden by increasing their b...

1 year ago

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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers

RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

@persephone Sound pressure at source (I think) is the same thing as measuring the SPL (Sound Pressure Level). At source will mean measuring the level...

1 year ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: The EPC Dilemma: How Current Ratings Fail Heat Pumps

More proof (if proof were needed!) that EPC’s aren’t necessarily equal or valid. The referenced presentation is about some Passive Houses that only ra...

1 year ago

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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations

RE: Electricity price predictions

@tim441 Shhsss, don’t speak too loudly… 😉 Regards, Toodles.

1 year ago

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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers

RE: The weakest link – components of an installation team

@allyfish That is what I feared might be the case beyond my own limited experience; my Solar PV Surveyor was very good except she neglected to look cl...

1 year ago

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Well & Truly Off The Grid