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If you use an olive puller tool, this shouldn't deform the pipe. I have this one and can recommend: olive puller Your considerations regarding top room sound reasonable. Does it get as hot though i.e. does the system need balancing. Furthermore, is this why the heads have been removed from...

Thanks. That is the approach I took in the end and worked out well.

Hi all, I am installing engineered oak parquet in our living room and need to prep the current subfloor, which are T+G floorboards. I will overboard with 6mm ply. The floorboards are in generally good condition, apart from one area where two connecting floorboards bowed up at the tongue and...

We had homely initially which is very similar to passiv. I couldn’t get on with it. The algorithms didn't really work and it also did my head in that it locked down the settings such as max outlet flow temp. In our case the installer has set it up with a max outlet flow temp of 45 which wasn’t...

Our property is quite poorly insulated and we just keep it running. I trialed setbacks versus just leaving it running all day at a steady indoor temp with our old gas boiler and even with that, the savings were minimal. I recall on cold days it was something like 20p saving at most to have a 16...

Why would the house be 10 degrees C? Just keep it running 24/7. That said it’s simple enough just to temporarily take it off weather comp and run a set [higher] outlet flow temp, if for whatever reason we need to heat the house back up from cold.

I did say most houses, in fairness. Yours sounds unusual. We cook in our house, and occasionally open the door as well. Weather comp still works fine.

I've done a lot of fiddling with weather compensation over the last 12 months, with our midea ashp. We have temp sensors in most rooms but as denso suggests for most residential homes the way forward is less individual room stats/controls. Pure weather compensation relies on no room stat...

I don't see why any installer couldn't [or shouldn't] explain a breakdown of costs and why that is considered to be too intrusive. To try and answer this question from a homeowner perspective- installation of unit/base, drilling through for primary pipework. Insulation of external pipework...

The heatgeek efficiency guarantee will be the SCOP (annual) as well. Only one way the heatgeek quote will be going presumably once they do a survey, and they may well be sizing up the unit afterwards. That octopus quote will be very difficult to beat I think. The proposed unit sizing looks...

@Avocet I'd be very tempted by that octopus quote- more emitter changes and a potentially significant saving in install costs to put towards a battery. I found heatgeek definitely at the more expensive end when we were getting quotes. We didn't go with octopus as they couldn't do a bespoke quote...

The way you can make a time of use tariff work with an ASHP is by: - having battery storage and charging it during off peak to get you through 1600 to 1900, and/or - pre heating or rather essentially over heating your house during the cosy dips. This can be achieved by using a smart controller...

You are missing the standing charge from your calculations I believe.

The rest of your post doesn’t make too much sense, but to answer this specific question, for our house: Pre install around 20000kW gas and 3500kW electricity per year. Post install around 9500kW electricity. No gas now. Induction hob. Both of these equate to £220 ish per month cost wise on...

@WalksWithTurkeys …fair question. We had quite a few quotes before embarking on our installation in our [badly insulated] house a couple of years back. A few of these companies offered the ‘premium’ option of the vaillant, or something like the ecodan or in one case a clivet rebadged midea, at...