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@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...
@downfield Yes, I used to use Octopus Compare sp that I could check / compare; however, the comparison is as far as I know rather ‘retrospective inasm...
@ianmk13 Agile: average import cost vs other tariffs? In this instance, Agile vs. Cosy Tariff. The answer is not quite as straightforward as one ...
@johnnyb Where is the ‘envious’ emoticon? Toodles.
@johnnyb Perhaps adjustments to the WC curve so as to raise the LWT to approx 30 degrees might be worth a try? It is a cat and mouse game of course du...
Well, we went ahead with the swap to Zen Internet who use City Fibre for their FTTP capability; we included VOIP services in our package and for rathe...
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