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Heatpump saga day one thread. Materials arrived. People arrived.Machine to lift…
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Seems like they have removed my garden gate, hopefully temporarily. Lots of ban…
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I mean in fairness to them. They hit a more-or-less unforeseeable snag. And the…
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We haz stuff though …
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And since I’m dumping photos, here are the “before” photos.
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I was hoping they would do all the outdoor stuff first, and it seems like they …
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Machine :
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Apparently they're planning to hang the unit about 2.2m above path level. A…
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@bloor and those who are, are used to ducking.
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@bloor you have a unit small enough to mount on brackets?!
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@ahnlak It's 12kW samsung I think. They are massive brackets.
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@ahnlak I believe it has a mass of 140kg. Doesn't seem insane to mount that…
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@bloor Classic builders pipework, sprayed silver to hide the mess they made wit…
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@geoffl i mean this has been the way it has been for about 2-3 decades. wow. ma…
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Probably an obvious comment but jesusfuck the heatpump is massive, compared to …
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Progress: The heat pump is on the cantilever arms. Seems a bit lower than they …
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And at the end of day one…
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I think it is more like six foot six off the ground but I think I’m happy eno…
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This room contains basically everything TBD.
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Ok I measured- it’s 197cm off the ground. It also might start to be getting a…
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Heatpump Saga : Day Two... The Tankening.Electrician arrived whilst I was in th…
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Meta has been nagging me to try their AI, so I finally clicked ok.... And immed…
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@bloor I'm not sure your heat pump is high enough for this giant installer …
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@bloor Hopefully not forshadowing 🫤🤷‍♂️
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@bloor I see your problem. Apparently MC Escher did your heatpump design 🧐
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@psfshr @bloor Not a good idea to have Escher doing your piping work, unless he…
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Ok so some wiring is done. Apparently this consumer unit (installed at the time…
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Meanwhile they are collecting my radiators (which had been in my garage being p…
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It's quite a weirdly disturbing, disquieting, almost stressful process, thi…
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@bloor Meanwhile I now have a picture of the inside of my house walls! Anyone f…
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Cool so I really am quite pleased with the rads in the same colour as the featu…
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@bloor very nice 👌
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FWIW I did use paint that said it was for radiators; an "egg shell" f…
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Sparks just cut the power off without warning me. Which isn’t optimal. Appare…
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@bloor Ha. I have a small UPS on the broadband link + router + APs (mainly beca…
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I am feeling somewhat smug about this, even against a normal white wall. This i…
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@bloor Oh so you're the chap with bits of a jet engine as a coffee table.I …
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@bloor oh man, how big are the oranges you're juicing 😯
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Ok I think now shit gets serious. Current sit rep: No hot water and no heating.…
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I just want to make clear, this is what they told me would happen exactly. So I…
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Given it’s an old CU, I kinda expected it not to be all properly glanded onto…
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@bloor nice work!
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Old tank out.
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Unexpected expense. You see the volvo parked behind all the workmen's cars?…
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@bloor SIXTEEN QUID. FOR A SANDWICH?!?!
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@bloor My sit rep since November 2024 has been: Some hot water and no heating.I…
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@jonty To be fair, they did say this would be the way it would be. So I'm k…
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@jonty @bloor WTAF? 😳
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Old knackered leaky gas boiler gone.
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Power flush starting.
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New cylinder ready to go in. However I’ve now been told that unfortunately th…
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Ok I get the feeling they are just tackling tidying up jobs. They have rehung m…
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Heat Pump Saga Day ThreeInterestingly, although they gave the impression last n…
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Hmm didn't turn up until 10 past 10. On the other hand they do seem to have…
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@bloor "Bad traffic mate, always bad on a Friday!" 😉
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Ok there is progress. Not really sure why we have an expansion vessel given it …
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@bloor That's smaller than I expected.. Octopus wanted to install one 2mx2…
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@tony there are only two of us 99% of the time. And we shower opposite ends of …
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@tony I think it's roughly the size of the old one, anyway. And that was fi…
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@[email protected] @[email protected] we have a 205 litre tank and the heatpump can…
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@[email protected] when I see installations like this I wonder why piping etc is n…
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Ok so we will have (immersion) hot water tonight. But not heating. I’m not wi…
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This will easily be covered by cupboard. This is on the inside end of the pipes…
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@bloor just a quick thank you for sharing this. It's been really useful as …
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@bloor If you'd said in advance you were going with olive I'd probably …
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@dan @bloor I hit favourite slightly begrudgingly on that because I should tota…
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Sigh. Just spotted a leak. From that cover below the lower lever valve. Probabl…
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Also I’ve noticed that the washing machine then pulled out to run a cable beh…
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My working theory is their subcontractor sparks moved the machine and they put …
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And now I’m a bit annoyed and dismayed I’m obviously looking around for thi…
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They may intend to tidy this up. But they haven’t said they intend to. Either…
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Maybe they are holding off filing this huge gap around the pipe through what wa…
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And again, maybe they intend to address this but you can see the brass fittings…
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And finally I don’t regard this as having cleaned up.
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Spoke to my heat pump point of contact. Very understanding and apologetic. Ackn…
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ALSO: THE HOT TAP HAD HOT WATER COMING OUT OF IT WHEN I TRIED IT.
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Heat pump saga, day four. They were meant to arrive at ten or ten thirty. Why n…
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Also it seems like nothing is leaking (obviously when you change a water cylind…
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Heat pump saga day five. Apparently they are going to finish it today. We will …
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He arrived at 11:04. I sense that he didn’t want to be here. Meanwhile my hou…
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Ok he seems to be cracking on. One really interesting / weird thing : some tool…
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Lil bit more progress, it seems.
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Oh one other thing - someone said they thought the cylinder was a bit small. Th…
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The loop has been filled and the radiators are being bled of air. That’s prog…
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Does anyone know???
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The heat pump is running and I can even feel a bit of warming in one of the rad…
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One minor worrying thing is that I can just about hear it running indoors, like…
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May as well do some science …
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So it does seem to be working. Objectively, the heat pump is quieter than the r…
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The settings appear to have the heating loop on 57 degrees, which is not as des…
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Ok so … some things are definitely screwy here. I hope to fuck the thing does…
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They have not filled around the pipe through the old flue hole. They have not c…
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Ok a productive call with my point of contact. Succeeded in adjusting down the …
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@bloor Is the system temperature controlled?If so what temperature are you sett…
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Agreed to address all the snags. Also listed some other stuff that needed setti…
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@simonzerafa @bloor boiling hot. Literally.
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@falken @bloor Hopefully not. A house at 100°C would be very present, unless y…
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@simonzerafa they haven’t enabled weather comp yet which I think ties into th…
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@bloor Weather compensation is the key. Maybe a constant change between 20 to 2…
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@simonzerafa it hasn’t been entirely straightforward BUT I can start to see l…
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@bloor All we've managed this week is new triple glazing which seems quite …
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@bloor that old cylinder, if it’s copper, don’t get it collected it’s wor…
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@bloor that old cylinder, if it’s copper, don’t get it collected as rubbish…
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@bloor when I was pulling our house apart found a guy who would take all the ra…
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One thing I’ve realised is. The system thinks the domestic hot water tank is …
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@[email protected] I don't think you're meant to turn it into a steam engi…
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@runningrobderby @bloor Ah, THE coffee table <3 .
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@f4grx I still have it. Although arguably it was much more 'suited' to …
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@bloor @f4grx I know nothing of the lore of that table, but I love it. :)
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@bloor probably had their fittings on a pre-10
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Heatpump saga day six.The heating worked very well over night. Too well. We wer…
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They say they will be back Wednesday to finish other jobs but TBH I do not feel…
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@bloor phew… saga indeed… thanks for the thread once again. I feel like thi…
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@piofthings @bloor I can give you contacts for some Midlands based people who s…
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@http_error_418 @bloor Thanks, I’ll come knocking when I am ready to explore …
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@piofthings @http_error_418 To be clear, I am not blaming the heatpump here , o…
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@bloor as we repeatedly say, the greatest achievement of the modern world is to…
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@beasts @bloor But you've not sent me a single unicorn, griffin, dragon or …
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@penguin42 @bloor we're Mythic Beasts Limited, so you only get pictures in …
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@bloor Maybe linked to your previous comment of 'Bit puzzled that only mayb…
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@bloor Oh congratulations!
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@bloor Save him some time; let him give the manual to you and do the digital si…
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@penguin42 I do not anticipate any instruction or induction to how to use it ho…
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@bloor @penguin42 as in, don't want, or doubt they'll provide? I haven&…
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@damien @penguin42 I’d hope for a walk through / intro . I won’t get one th…
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@bloor Both screwfix and Toolstation have schemes like this; https://www.screw…
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@bloor I guess it depends which bits are live?
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Ok so the heatpump guy, in spite of being given a pile of evidence that, infact…
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Notably, the house is still lovely and warm, to be fair.
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@bloor Has the power come down?
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@jfparis I'm not home but a big chunk of the day it was using 0.1kW, I thin…
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@[email protected] @[email protected] fyi ours peaks about 1.8kw in the current…
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So they have accepted that it is the wrong probe. Sigh. And they said they’d …
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I am now having an argument with the point of contact about the immersion. Basi…
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Ok good. The sensor is now swapped. Blue wire this time. The reading of tank te…
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Seems like when heating up the water, it really ramps up the heat pump and runs…
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@[email protected] we only heat our dhw to 42 with a weekly boost for hygiene, and…
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Now the tank is at temperature, the system has ramped down massively.
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Extremely back of fat packet maths. The unit lifted 200l of water from (call it…
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@bloor A COP of 3 for an new and probably unoptimised setup isn't too shabb…
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@bloor Make sure you heat it over 70 (I think) once a week for legionella.
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@alexlomas @bloor correct, we have a hot water system heated using an air sourc…
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@alexlomas @bloor It should happen automatically
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@gulfie @alexlomas I believe that is how mine works, although I’m unsure how …
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@bloor @alexlomas we can see it in our energy monitoring. I don’t monitor the…
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Ok so Kemi had a shower and approx ten minutes after the shower, after the heat…
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@bloor Surely less expensive to use overnight lower rate electricity? 🙂
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@[email protected] our controller has time periods for comfort and eco, so I have …
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@bloor @http_error_418 yup! Totally get it. I just had a rant on outsourcing ==…
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@bloor @piofthings @http_error_418 and they should spend most of a day balancin…
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@bloor Farenheit? 116 would be 46.6 and if the tank sits around ~50C (122F) tha…
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@Elwell @bloor my tank is set for 50, with a weekly boost to 60 to prevent legi…
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@http_error_418 @bloor We don't have an obvious setting - it's an older…
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@Elwell @bloor my tank is inside, but it's really well insulated - the oute…
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@bloor maybe it thinks the tank is at 5bar 😛In seriousness though, the subco…
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@bloor Jesus. That's all a bit shonky. I can well understand you not being …
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@greem @bloor yeah that's all a bit messy. Not sure about the brass flow an…
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@greem @bloor so, a bit of a mix on mine, the parts immediately on the back of …
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@cryptomoose I will continue until the project is done. They will be back again…
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@bloor @cryptomoose ok this seems to be going less well than mine on the plumbi…
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@http_error_418 @cryptomoose well that’s another thing. I’m expecting one r…
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@bloor @cryptomoose what have they been *doing* all week? Doing the rads at min…
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@http_error_418 @cryptomoose hanging it on the wall took a whole day to be fair
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@bloor now mine is in operation there's a thing about it I've noticed t…
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@http_error_418 I think my plan is to let them install it and try not to preemp…
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@bloor yeah fair, it's not a terrible noise, just a mild irritation, and de…
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@http_error_418 I can be quite adept at building small diy projects too. So if …
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@bloor worst one I had for leaving stuff was the plasterers in the eldest's…
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Heat Pump Saga Day Six or Seven (depending on your viewpoint) - they didn't…
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Also 6) Maybe do a handover?7) Maybe clean the carpet they made a mess of?Finge…
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Insulation I didn’t expect them to bother with.
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This does look a bit more finished to be fair …
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They have done quite a thorough job cleaning up in the "hot water tank&quo…
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I'm informed that the rubbish will be taken away tomorrow, so that's go…
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Has to be said I am really fucking sick of having people making noise and mess …
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These do look neater; better sealed as it goes through the wall, and condensate…
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I might insulate the condensate drain myself, once they are gone, as I believe …
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Noting down loop pressure, and suddenly realised the compressor wasn’t runnin…
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So yet again only because I noticed and chased after them as they were leaving …
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@bloor What a palaver 😬
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@bloor May be worth looking at Octopus Cosy: https://octopus.energy/smart/cosy-…
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The main engineer has gone off site, because he needed to pick up his wife and …
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I have, once again, but far more warmly, expressed my anger and disappoint at t…
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Apparently the engineer will be back at ten. I mean, I wanted a shower and to g…
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@bloor There’s very little I hate more than not being able to shower. It feel…
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The engineer is back. I mean good. But also *sigh*.
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It’s gone eleven and the engineer is still here. Sigh.
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The engineer has left. Hot water and heating both working again. Crucially I al…
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Flow temp 58. Woof.
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Cylinder almost at target.
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@bloor Is this a hot tap water tank? I thought you had to keep at least 60°C t…
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@[email protected] @[email protected] thats a myth, usually systems do a hygien…
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Heat pump saga day a fucking million. Last night I was able to have a shower. G…
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So all this has done is made it so I set the flow temp not have it work off the…
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So I’m asking for a flow of 45 in the heating circuit.
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@bloor What a ballache. There's something wrong, surely? Radiator size?
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@[email protected] on the hot water there is probably a hysteresis figure so it ma…
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@davep it was working great
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@bloor But you're having to bodge it to keep it working after, what, less t…
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@[email protected] on the heating, need to check the weather compensation curve, a…
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@davep well it was working actually quite well, then they came back and drained…
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@bloor Ah, ok, so not necessarily something that's going to keep happening …
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@nick he’s literally just told me “the thermostat function doesn’t work v…
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@[email protected] sounds like you need someone who knows what they are doing, ver…
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@bloor @davep Do you think it's air in the heating loop? If so can you jus…
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@penguin42 @davep unsure. We did notice a ton of gurgling last night .
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@bloor @davep Well you may as well try bleeding your radiators (the loop pressu…
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@penguin42 @bloor I guess a bit of tinkering before they disappear for good mig…
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@penguin42 @davep I have no means to top it up
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@bloor @davep Oh curious, our boiler has a end-user thing to top up; but still,…
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@penguin42 @bloor @davep More than just curious, I'd think the system would…
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@edavies @penguin42 @davep yep and mine goes to non mains (loft tank) supply. S…
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@bloor @edavies @penguin42 Eww
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I am really quite fed up with all this. What I really want to do is get in a 3r…
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He will meet the installer, and figure out what they are going to do. But again…
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The point of contact was actually kind of verging on stroppy; almost indignant,…
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I do not regard myself as a difficult customer; I'm actually quite reasonab…
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Meanwhile a friend made this in AI :
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Ok so, had a call from the main point of contact. He and the fitter will come b…
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@bloor 🤦‍♂️
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Heat pump saga day a million and one. So they arrived two hours after they said…
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@bloor So baffled as to why they didn't do this to start with, surely just …
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@synx508 Yerp . Inexperience is my thought. And maybe penny pinching?
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@synx508 thing is I see inefficiencies which were no doubt done to try and redu…
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@bloor Minimum viable plumber.
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@bloor what's the alternative way to fill? Bucket some water into a funnel?
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@damien one of these is how they did it 2-3 times before :
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@penguin42 @davep but that will drop the loop pressure, which if it drops far e…
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@bloor @penguin42 @davep er, you should have a way to pressurise the loop yours…
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@smsm1 @bloor @penguin42 @davep fwiw, chatted to a friend with a heat pump last…
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@johnl @smsm1 @penguin42 @davep fuck wow
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@bloor @johnl @smsm1 @penguin42 @davep I suppose if your cold water supply is g…
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@ahnlak @johnl @smsm1 @penguin42 @davep that’s correct. But madly mains press…
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@bloor @ahnlak @johnl @penguin42 @davep then why use the gravity feed system. W…
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@smsm1 @bloor @johnl @penguin42 @davep some power showers have a slight tendenc…
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@ahnlak @bloor @johnl @penguin42 @davep ah, that's something I haven't …
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@smsm1 @ahnlak @johnl @penguin42 @davep two mega brands and two popular models …
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@bloor @ahnlak @johnl @penguin42 @davep Checking terminology... does the shower…
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@smsm1 @bloor @ahnlak @johnl @penguin42 @davep Electric shower heats cold water…
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@smsm1 @bloor @ahnlak @johnl @penguin42 @davep Also you should regularly move t…
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@geoffl @smsm1 @bloor @ahnlak @johnl @penguin42 I first encountered a thermosta…
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@bloor I'm out of the country at the moment but when I go back I'll fin…
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@X31Andy I think. On reflection, I’d have been capable of doing this with a b…
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@bloor that's the thing - if they were honest and knew what they were doing…
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@ret A couple of times now I feel I've been the victim of attempted bullshi…
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@bloor I'm sorta terrified about getting into solar stuff (which is imminen…
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@ret So it turns out I know more (in some areas) than my heatpump people about …
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@bloor manual pumping? This does not sound like a very ... normal installation.
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@ahnlak except https://mastodon.social/@johnl/115307035646615532
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@bloor @ahnlak There's almost certainly already a mains water pipe in your …
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@geoffl @ahnlak I think their plan now is to bring something back down from the…
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@bloor @ahnlak
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@bloor I wouldn't expect the temperature of the hot water to be maintained …
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@bloor when it's warmer outside like it has been here today, the temperatur…
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@smsm1 I have put a thermal camera on the rads. They are half full of air.
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@smsm1 but I can’t bleed the air because that will cause the loop to lose pre…
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@bloor is there a leak somewhere that's allowing air into the system?We had…
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@smsm1 it’s very plausible there may be very very small leaks in places. If i…
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@bloor the gap can be small enough to allow air in but not let a noticeable amo…
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@bloor toilet paper/kitchen roll can sometimes help with detecting these kinds …
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@smsm1 the flow temp mode was temporarily chosen to get it to do something. I t…
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@smsm1 there is no weather comp at the moment; we are in “set flow temp” mo…
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@bloor the set flow temperature option isn't one that's available on my…
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@bloor this whole saga has convinced me to stay with my normal immersion heater…
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@vfrmedia Really don't feel it's the heat pump's "fault".…
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@bloor its something that plagues all the skilled trades, a lack of training an…
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@vfrmedia @bloor the company I got in did almost all the work themselves with o…
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@bloor @vfrmedia yeah, apparently that happened with solar installers in the 20…
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@bloor look up HeatGeek. 👍 MCS is beyond a complete waste of time. I have ze…
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@theolodian Not a particularly helpful suggestion (although I'm sure it was…
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@theolodian A lot of firms in this space do seem to be very new and inexperienc…
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@bloor @theolodian Hindsight is certainly 20:20. I think the main thing I'd…
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@wishy @bloor it shouldn’t be this hard to install, but it is very difficult …
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@theolodian @bloor No wet system for us to retrofit anyway, so it'll be A2A…
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@wishy @theolodian You already get VAT knocked off A2A; that's 20% so i mea…
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@bloor @theolodian Very true; think it's 5% VAT still? Precision control of…
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@wishy @theolodian I am /fairly/ sure it was 0% VAT when we had our bedroom a/c…
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@bloor @theolodian So it is, i must have missed that change.
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@wishy @theolodian I know someone who just had 3 A/C units done all at once in …
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@bloor @theolodian Any idea how much a 3 unit set them back?
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@wishy @bloor shouldn’t be more than £5K really. Can be hit or miss with ins…
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@theolodian @wishy I think it was £6k in total, for 3x Daikin Emura ones, two …
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@bloor @wishy sounds good. We’re looking at 7 indoor units on 2 outdoor units…
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@theolodian @wishy I think we'll end up with about eight ish. One down seve…
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@bloor @wishy only 2 outdoor units are permitted development, the rest require …
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@theolodian @wishy wow that sucks. Does it make any difference that half of our…
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@bloor @wishy I take it that you already have 3-phase. The DNO is another barri…
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@bloor @wishy nope. You can have all of the gas boilers and coal stoves that yo…
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@bloor @damien refilled the whole system by hand pump? 😟
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