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Renewable Heat Incentive - add a new property heated by existing heat pump
Hi all, just want to see if anyone knows about how the following proposal would potentially affect ongoing eligibility for RHI payments. I've got a ground source heat pump with a maximum heat output of at least 22 kW, i.e., about the heftiest domestic model on the market. Even in the current chill I have set the compressor…
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Idiots guiide to best use of ASHP please!
Morning. I live in social housing and earlier this year had an air source heat pump installed which is great and works well. However I'm sure I'm not using it in the best or most economical way When it was installed they handed me the thermostat thingie and said control it with this. Which obviously works fine but may not…
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ASHP to Avoid from October 2022
Hello everyone, this is my first post here. I am applying for a new ASHP under the Green Home Grant (UK) and wondered what brands to avoid. If you have a new ASHP installed recently under the grant, do you have a say in what it will be installed? Including HW cylinder and possible radiators too. Does the installer just fit…
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Mitsubishi ecodan ASHP no heating
Please can anyone shed any light on how this system should work? I live in a social housing new build with an air source heat pump. Underfloor heating downstairs and radiator’s upstairs controlled by a typical wall dial thermostat. Heating & hot water worked perfectly fine when I moved into the property in March this…
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Government installed a heat pump in my house. Still getting gas bills. What happens if I don’t pay?
Hi, the government installed an airflow heat pump in my housing scheme rented house in the summer. But I’m still getting gas bills. No gas was used but the bills include the standing charge and “vat on the standing charge”… What happens if I don’t pay? If I just ignore it will the gas company eventually cut me off and let…
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Mitsubishi Ecodan ASHP - DHW & Heating questions
Hi all, I live in a 2019 new build that has solar, and a Mitsubishi ECODAN PAC-IF063B-E ASHP. Upstairs has radiators, and downstairs has wet UFH, controlled in all rooms by Heatmiser room stats. Upstairs has a single stat on the landing, with TRV's on the rads. I have had several issues with the system since moving in,…
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Air Source Heat Pump Question
Hi, We've had our Air Source Heat pump just over a year now, it's been working OK. I have heard that these have an expected lifespan of about 10 years - does this mean I would then need to reinstall a completely new system or would the old one be repairable? It seems like a lot of money to pay out (ours was around £13k)…
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How are you running your ASHP
Background first, ASHP just installed, looking to get the best out it now. First person up at 06:00, house empty most days by 08:00 till 13:00. Currently running it as water all the time and heating at 20c. Heating 6am till 7:30 am and again 16:00 till 21:30. At other times, it's set to 7c. I've had a quick check, water…
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ASHP's and how to use them economically?
I have been fortunate enough to have received a letter from my local council offering me the opportunity to apply for a local Authority £10K grant to improve my homes' energy efficiency etc etc. A surveyor visited last week and is planning to install an Air Source Heat Pump (ASHP) completely free of charge, paid in full by…
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GSHP pasteurisation cycle
anyone have experience of running pasteurisation cycle on GSHP?
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GSHP - I need help with making it as efficient as possible!
We have a GSHP for our heating and hot water. the RHI payments end this year and so we have the double whammy of no longer getting that alongside rising energy costs, and its worrying me. Our GSHP was installed by previous occupants of the house who then got divorced and sold house to us shortly after completing the works…
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GSHP - Will prices come down?
With an ASHP, that's a more easier question to answer ie: as time goes on, the cheaper they get With a GSHP, presumably the additional costs from it isn't just the heat pump but rather the planning, drilling, and any thing that you need to put in for the piping which may end up costing more if it's copper too. I imagine…
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Heatpump - Replacement cost?
Say you have the necessary piping for either an ASHP or a GSHP. Say, also that the actual heat pump breaks and you need to replace it. What percentage of the overall costs are the heat pump itself, as part of the initial installation? That'd be good to know, because it means potentially knowing that you need to save up a…
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ASHP Grant for Garage Conversion
Hi , I am currently planning to convert my detached garage into a living space it is approx 24sqm in size, ( currently its sole use is a garage ) , i would like to install ASHP for hot water and space heating, i looked at the ASHP grant that is being made available , but could not work out if i would be eligible as its a…
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GSHP - terraced houses?
This is entirely hypothetical. Could you get GSHP for terraced houses? I can't see why you would, mind but could you do so?
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Mitsubishi Ecodan ASHP - Crippling Bills due to electricity usage.
Hi all We have recently moved into a property which has an Ecodan air source hear pump. We have been in our home for 5 weeks and in that time have used 3500kwh (700kwh per week). I feel absolutely sick as at the current cost of electricity that's £1,500. Thinking this must be an problem with an appliance we have turned off…
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Retrofitting ASHP. How much disruption?
Can anyone share their experienes of retroftitting an ASHP pease? How much disruption? What order do things get done - pump outside first, then tank, radiators and so on or vice versa? We are aiming to have one installed but if it means furniture will have to be moved then summer is best so stuff can go outside and we can…
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ASHP is my quote reasonable?
I’ve been looking into getting a ASHP as my boiler needs replacing anyway. I like a few things about the ASHP the hot water tank being in my old boiler cupboard and the unit outside is ideal - I don’t have room to have a boiler and a tank indoors as all space is taken. I want a tank due to constant change in water pressure…
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Amount of space required for airsource heatpump
We are about to start a large project which will include replacing our ancient gas boiler with a modern gas boiler which will be going into a full floor to ceiling height cupboard in a first floor bedroom. We are conscious that at some point in the future we may have to go down the ASHP front, so we are planning on having…
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How to reduce the noise from the cylinder of an ASHP system?
I recently had an ASHP system installed in my bungalow, with the main cylinder located in a cupboard in my spare bedroom. I hadn't appreciated how loud the whirring would be and am wondering how best to reduce the noise. It's tricky to identify exactly where the noise is coming from, but it's somewhere in the orange circle…
