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RE: Ecodan - Legionella Operation Time and Target Temperature

An immersion heater should have two thermostatic switches in series. One is fixed and is an emergency fail-safe.It should be set by the manufacturer...

7 days ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: 300 Liter Tank - Do I have to heat it all?

Cross references for @martingale Background discussion on the risks of succumbing to Legionnaires Disease is here And here's an investigative dis...

1 week ago
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Domestic Hot Water & Cylinders
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RE: 300 Liter Tank - Do I have to heat it all?

Hmmm. You would need to part-fill the cylinder using a material with a lower Heat Capacity than water (4186J/Kg/°C)and a higher density, so that it ...

1 week ago
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Domestic Hot Water & Cylinders
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RE: Do we really need a mass upgrade of electricity infrastructure at the level we have been told, or even home batteries?

It's unclear to me how the Smart Control project work by Salford University and Hildebrand would be used.At this stage it appears to be raw research, ...

1 week ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Do we really need a mass upgrade of electricity infrastructure at the level we have been told, or even home batteries?

OK... I'm here. But the amount of my time needed to address this is issue is greater than what I have available! Precisely! I attended last...

1 week ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?

Aggregators have been recognised for many years, and it's a different concept to Energy Suppliers, who buy on the wholesale market. In it's most sim...

2 weeks ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Benefits of an extra horizontal loop for GSHP

I would deffo install an additional slinky run, especially as each run is being separately terminated into a manifold. We don't know how many runs y...

2 weeks ago
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Grounds Source Heat Pump (GSHPs)
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RE: Say hello and introduce yourself

Hi @seatonian - Yes, I know Seaton, and I have the National Grid maps for your area. So if "renovating our 1920's home" includes changing the heati...

3 weeks ago
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Introductions, Forum Rules & Updates
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RE: Say hello and introduce yourself

Hi @topher - you might be interested to see this very recent discussion about the rules which apply to the Boiler Upgrade Scheme £7500 subsidy. The ...

4 weeks ago
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Introductions, Forum Rules & Updates
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RE: BUS Grant: removal of all other fossil fuel heat sources

@rikiarn - just have a think as to how much it will cost you to keep that gas fire available as a backup heat source. We don't know whether you use ...

4 weeks ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Cost to have Gas removed

Don't do much digging around.That's best left to the professionals 😉 The rules on dormant gas pipes are varied, and depend on many factors...

4 weeks ago
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