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@lucia And even further… I have rarely been out in the garden at the right time to notice a defrost cycle but yesterday I just happened to pass the pu...
@johnnyb Hello johnnyb, yes, if I do resort to Agile again, I’ll investigate the Myenergi app - ISTR it was rather flakey nearly two years back but I ...
@boycey Sorry, but apart from my provider’s energy bills that are for all consumption, no. The Onecta app is next to useless and I do not have any mea...
@boycey The Homely Review may be seen at: Regards, Toodles.
@boycey The Homely price was £370 plus fitting but I can’t work that component out as it was contained within a day’s labour whilst other installation...
Efficiency and cost of energy do not necessarily align - so we have the rather dumb result that it is cheaper to use more energy at a lower COP but st...
@lucia Further, I would like to add that using WC on the Daikin is impressively good at maintaining a constant IAT - except at the extremes (particula...
@lucia And just to add, the Daikin ASHP is very good but it is a shame their manuals and their programmers are such cr@p. Ours is controlled by Homely...
Glad to hear it all went well; I wanted to use Octopus for all the reasons you have experienced, it was just that at the time of the survey, they had ...
Having mentioned that an EV tariff might be usable once the main winter load days have passed, (perhaps late January?) I then have the choice of going...
@tim441 As has been said before ‘changing tariffs very frequently’ is not a game I wish to join and just hope that sticking with one tariff should ser...
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