SteamyTea

@TonyT I am still amazed that you have turned one one. Is there a reason the hall is cold? Where in the country are you? Was the usage half of what is was night before last?

One of my old regular customers wrote these.

Yes, and every other county. 4 million of you do it every year. Your dogs can shit on the beaches as well, in fact, it is compulsory, council encourages it. Unlike Paris, you can hire electric bikes and scooters, just make sure you ignore the cycle lanes and use the footpaths, and go up one way streets the wrong way. But the most important thing to remember is when you cross the Tamar, you have to make up your own Highway Code. The national one does not apply anymore. Just make sure it is unique, so absolutely no one knows what you are going to do next, be it stop suddenly, react to a signpost totally inappropriately, and my favourite, block the outside lane of a dual carriageway and leave a mile of clear road in front of you. (I use the term 'You' generically for (expletive deleted)ing (expletive deleted) emmets)

Does it begin with C

I think there was storage heaters and some of us spent ages pointing out what Zoot was stopping them from working. may have been at his parents house.

I thought it was sorted out ages ago that the billing has to stay the same. Same times that there cannot be preferential offers for smart meters only. The problem is the call handlers have not been told otherwise, so they believe they can only offer what is on their crib sheets.

` +-+07-0. Whoops, that was me drying the keyboard after spilling some tea on it.

I wish I had learnt them. I missed one lecture at university, it was the one on sound waves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_equation

I suspect that gas is cheaper at the moment. Just divide their electricity price by the gas price and see if the number would be acceptable as a CoP number i.e. 3+. I wish the council down here would spend some money on my house.

I just use a cheap electronic timer in each one. I am still in my original elements after 36 years of usage. Those old Credas are a miracle of reliability.

Yes, but if you have decided it is going to fail, then no. Ok, here is my opinion about it. The reason it is getting a buffer is because they know from your complaints that you will not run the system as it is designed to be run. So by fitting a large buffer, it can seemingly run more like a traditional boiler i.e. on/off/on/off all day It will be using the built in, and possibly supplementary resistance heaters, more than it needs to, but the extra running costs are not down to them, but down to the way you think, in your wisdom, what is best for the system, in what I shall call 'future failure mode'.

Mine generally take a couple of nights to get up to temperature, but then I do limit the hours they can charge to the last 4 hours of the E7 window. This reduces the amount of standing losses during the early morning when the temperature does not need to be so high. Do you have fancy fan assisted smart storage heaters, or dumb, government issue Credit ones like mine.

I tried to take some of my Mother's house hold rubbish to her local tip in Buckinghamshire and got refused entry because my car was registered in Cornwall. (expletive deleted)ing Nazis.

Not that big really. Your place is larger than my 48 m2 over two floors and I could easily find room for a buffer that size. If your heat load is as great as you claim, which I doubt is actually is (10 kW wood burn to make a small living room almost warm), I doubt if you really need a buffer at all. But, and as you know you will get a but from me, if you insist on running an ASHP like a traditional thermal boiler i.e. 25 or 40 kW blasts for a few minutes every hour during the day time, then let the house over cool at night, then a heat pump will not be given a chance to work effectively. I seem to remember that you had storage heaters and you struggled to get them to work, and even after many explanations about how they work and the best way to let them work, you still did not set them up correctly. If you fail to use a system as it is designed to be used, it will fail, but it is failing because of you, not the type of system installed. I lost count of how many people told you to leave your last system on all the time and let it sort itself out, but you flatly refused to do that, claiming that it made a noise at night. I very much suspect that the noise, which was probably very minor, would have stopped once the system was up and running within its parameters. It is really down to you to make the system work, not look for spurious reasons as to my it MUST fail, and then make sure it does fail to prove your point.

Do you think that when your place got burnt down, the wrong house was targeted.

Why on the face of this it may seem to make sense, you and I probably heat our houses to similar temperatures, and out OATs are probably quite similar, maybe shifted along the x-axis a °C or 3. To put some more light on the matter I have looked at energy use and temperature difference (house temp minus outside temp). Like the previous energy chart, the bulk of the energy usage is in the middle. From Δ12°C to Δ17°C, there is 73% of the total heat load, 712 kWh. Δ17°C to Δ22°C, the coldest periods, 10% of the heat load is used, 112 kWh. The warmest part, Δ8°C to Δ12°C, which accounts for 17% of the time, is 366 kWh This may seem odd that more energy is used to heat the house when it is warmer, but as I said above, it is probably accounted for by being away for a few days. DHW usage will also skew the figures a bit, but they are pretty constant at 3 kWh/day, so about 120 kWh for the period. Another thing that may skew the figures is the amount of winter sunshine and the associated clear nights that cause a larger variation in temperature range, even if the mean temperature is the same.

Did you play marbles. Give me my marbles back.

When I visited @joe90's, the neighbour had erected a manakin up to try and look like someone official keeping an eye on the build.

Well price is no guide. All I can say is that my cheap bathroom mixer tap from Screwfix has lasted, so far, 15 years.

@TonyT It is still August, why is your heater on? My whole house is heated on about 12 kWh/day when it is the coldest time if year.

Well done. Does that mean you can do the annual checks as well, or does that mean you have to keep up a subscription? You can fit other people's UVCs. F-Gas next. Then your electrical ticket. Then you can properly, and legitimately moan about other people's work.

How big is it, huge is a dimentionless unit and means nothing. Sounds like a teacher with an uncooperative student.

You should be happy that you have insects to kill. Rachael Carson said we had killed them all with DDT. She was wrong.

The E7 radio service is being switched off, and it also give me the opportunity to try other tariffs and supplier easily. I have nothing against smart metering, but EDF have a hopeless support system. I think they find a homeless person, given them a phone, then teach them how to disconnect customers. But if I keep escalating them problem, I may get 50 quid back.

EDF installed my smart meter a few weeks back. The in home display lasted less than a day. Getting that sorted out has opened a can of worms. They are now claiming that they can only offer me monthly billing, after I have been on quarterly billing for over 30 years. Shall kick up a proper fuss.