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Reed_Richards

thevilla said:

Flow temp quoted was 45 degrees max.  Our boiler doesn't display temperature but we ran it pretty cool last winter. Never too hot to hold the radiators.

At this time of year, because of Weather Compensation the temperature of the water in my radiators doesn't reach body temperature.  @matt_drummer has such a super-efficient system that his radiators are like this all the time.  "never too hot to hold" is still hot by heat pump standards.  

thevilla

I received a call from HGs advising their tardiness in answering my questions was due to holidays and the original engineer will call me sometime soon.

I got in touch with Octopus and they'll only re pipe 5 radiators so it doesn't look like I'll be getting a heat pump for some time unfortunately. 

I'm pleased HG have made contact.  I was feeling ripped off.

Cabbagerust

Reed_Richards said:

Cross quoting from the Octopus thread:

stripling said:

Folks need to understand that Heat Geek Assured is different from a Heat Geek trained heating engineer. Everyone also needs to understand that Heat Geek is a "brand" not a saint. Plus Heat Geek training is online not practical. There's nothing wrong with that but you want on-the-job experience too. 

Heat Geek Assured gets you a guarantee of sorts but note that British Gas provide similar - a definition of efficiency/capability that they guarantee. You may or may not pay a lot more for this with HG Assured than a HG trained installer may offer. Also, in my area at least 2 of the installers on the local Octopus team are HG trained that I know about. 

Take note, by Adam Chapman's own admission, HG Assured has only done 200 installs nationwide so far. I'm sure they'll get many more but understand the nature of 'Platforms' and 'Branding' and don't be mesmerised by hype.

The independent HG trained (and promoted by HG) installer who I dealt with thinks HG's heat loss software is as clumsy and too 'tick box' as most of the others so he designed his own software in lockdown. 

HG is lucky to have Urban Plumber - a heating 'genius' if ever there was one (check his YouTube channel for useful videos) - promoting their brand but not every HG installer is going to be Urban Plumber. 

Urban Plumber btw has a video online of a heat pump install he did with no radiator changes even though they were little K1s. Not the most efficient on the planet but a lot better than you would think. (The householder was waiting to renovate so he didn't want to change any rads). 

 

Urban plumber is just someone that did the Heat geek training and shares what he learned on You Tube. It’s a great channel but it’s essentially still Heat Geek