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Currently have warm air heating in rental property - should I get heat pump instead?
Hi, I have owned a 5 room (total) rental property for almost 40 years. It is currently heated by warm air heating, but apparantly it is now becoming very hard to find new parts, and so my gas engineers has quoted approx £8K to replace it with a gas boller and install radiators. Whilst it would be nice to put in an heat…
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How many kWh less heat needed with better loft insulation?
Is there a way to work out kWh heat loss easily for effectively almost no loft insulation to 200+mm ? Octopus have quoted me for 50c flow temps and I want to see if loft insulation would mean I could drop to say 40c
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Optimising a heat pump
This discussion was created from comments split from: Is switching to electric heating a bad idea.
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Is there a Heat Pump Summary resource?
It would be really useful to have a single resource that listed all heat pumps along with useful info such as SCOP/COP at different air/flow temps, max and min output, sound power level, dimensions etc. Has anyone come across anything along those lines? Thanks
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What should I be looking for in HP installer?
I have an Ideal Mexico Gas Boiler installed 2006. I live in 4 bed detached 1920s ish house built with caoldust cement (this dampens signals to mobiles thus SM2 does not communicate). Cavity walls insulated, double glazing, loft hardboard and plank flooring, insulated, new roof. Radiators and pipework pre 1987. (Radiators…
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Changing liegonella cycle times on Panasonic heat pump
Hi I have a Panasonic WH-SDC16C6E5 heat pump and I am on a time-of-day tariff, so need to change the times when the legionella protection cycle runs to the early hours of the morning. Contacted Panasonic who were useless and advised to contact a plumber…Nothing in the manual that helps either. Does anyone know how to…
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Is there an idiots guide?
We had a heat pump and solar panels under the eco grant last year. It’s been one long hassle. As seems to be common, the pre-installation information was deceptive - we were told our boiler would be ‘replaced’ not that they would be installing a space ship that took up 1/3 of a bedroom. We were left with a huge manual that…
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ECO4 Grant
We have had the above grant, fitted in December. Solar panels, heat source heat pump, radiators, plus we agreed to buy a battery. It is the worst decision we have made. Our electricity bill is huge our consumption since installing in December is 4000kw. How can this be right, the installers haven't fitted the battery right…
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How much gets replaced / how disruptive is it when fitting a heat pump?
Hello. We have a gas boiler that we expect has a good number of years useful life left in it, so are not looking to replace in the short term. I have heard that the radiators will almost certainly have to be replaced, but what about the pipes to the rads? Our rads are fed by microbore pipes and last year the property had a…
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Heat pump tariff vs EV tariff vs fixed rate.
We've just had a heat pump installed and I drive an EV. The, almost mandatory, smart meter is being fitted next week. I have hit a minefield of energy tariffs. My car only needs charging twice a week which I try to do on bright (sunny) days taking advantage of our roof top PV's. All tariffs give low price at some time of…
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180l tank for 2 people
I need a slimline tank for my install (just me then daughter every other week too) and octopus want to install a 180l tank that’s 475cm x 1880. This seems massive and I wondered if anyone had a thin tank installed that’s smaller size ? Im worried about the costing of heating water I won’t use
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Octopus ASHP
Well, what can I say. Great service, lots of it, but issues are not getting resolved. OCTOPUS ENERGY AIR SOURCE HEAT PUMPS been through the rigorous process to installation, and had all my rads replaced,HW tank installed, super friendly staff. Electrician was a nightmare.. ruined a lot of deocr. Notwithstanding, main…
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ECO4 ASHP, Solar and insulation
Hi All, We qualify for an ECO4 grant and have been approved for the following work. I'm in the very early stages of figuring out if this is something we should go for, and need some advice and pointers along the way. At the moment, I don't know what I don't know so please feel free to educate me - I'll tell you what I do…
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Is it a financial no brainer to get a battery system if you are getting a heat pump?
Suppose you use 5,000kwh of hot water and 12,000kwh of heat per year and assume the scop for hot water is 2.5 and for heat is 3.5. Assume a tariff with 7p night rate and 25p day rate available if you have a battery or 25p all units if not. Assume you can only heat hot water at night and use 30% of your heat at night rate…
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New heat pump - should I go for Octopus Intelligent Flux or Octopus Cosy?
This discussion was created from comments split from: Electric only tariff for heat pumps.
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Heat pump warranty
Have recently got a quote from Octopus which says that the heat pump is guaranteed for 5 years. I don't have experience in heat pumps but the gas boilers I've got installed both have a warranty of 10 years. Is 5 years normal for an HP?
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Heat Pump - Is it working or is it just rubbish?
So I had a new heat pump installed in November. I have two issues: 1. I appreciate they have to work harder in winter but my house always feels cold. Occasionally it's 'not cold' but it's never warm. My radiators never feel hot like they did with my old gas boiler. They just feel warm at best. Is that normal? Is the idea…
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Help me configure my new heat pump
This discussion was created from comments split from: EV and Air Source Heat Pump!.
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Does a GSHP make sense in a Grade 2 listed building in need of complete renovation
Just bought a property and would like to go GSHP for max efficiency and environmental reasons but not sure I am making a good decision. Facts are : * Grade 2 2/3 bed detached property in 0.75 acres. Brick and rendered with slate roof plus lime plaster walls and ceilings. Some concrete floors downstairs and some wood joist…
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Consumer Energy Solutions offering grant for heat pumps, etc: Opinions?
Hi all. Has anyone heard of Consumer Energy Solutions? They are certainly keen to arrange a date to assess whether I can receive a grant to the tune of 20k for home insualation, heat pump, etc?
