Last seen: Aug 6, 2025
@hcas It is with Daikin and amounts to £345 inc. VAT. (Not Cheap!) Toodles.
I have assumed that we should see 15 years of ‘active life’ from our Daikin - and with any luck, it should be working for another 5 years after that. ...
@wobby1 Yes, not that I have any intention of selling the house but with the ASHP plus solar and battery plus extensive insulation, I feel sure it wil...
@jamespa Those figures are indeed somewhat better! I wonder if the same design heat pump would be efficient at even lower temperature such as 30 - 35 ...
@ivanopinion I too was disappointed to see the comparatively low SCOP of 2.72; I would have expected the Octopus team to have come up with at least 3....
@mikeavison Perhaps I might add a few observations? I should declare they are my opinions only - they may be shared with others but please have a supp...
@ivanopinion Another consideration being that Cosy offers 2 x 3 hour intervals that are not evenly spread over the 24 hours thus leaving a larger lump...
Yes, you can be on Cosy and still export; there are two tariffs, Agile Export and Fixed export. The fixed export currently (pun, sorry) offers 15 penc...
@mch Quite So! Toodles.
@mikeavison Oh Dear! I hope your name wasn’t too brown and sticky! 😃Our hot water is handled separately by a Sunamp Thermino eP210; this is be...
@ivanopinion Though in my experience (for what they may be worth, if anything!) installers appear to have far more requests for installations than the...
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