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Yes saw the Solar plates that claim to cut install time of 4kW system to 4 hours. It is a new build house (August). We have ashp and we are kicking ourselves having not asked them to put solar panels on when building. We want to be environment but not at all cost. The 3 phase costs £150, maybe due to different inverter? He also said can’t have battery. He’s coming for site visit next week.

Anyone had this done? The company we contacted said was more complicated to install equating to £1000 additional install cost. Also costs more as we have 3 phase electricity. Just looking for experiences. Thanks

Reading up whether solar PV is a good investment, seems there is a payback period of at least 15 years. What I am unsure of is do those calculations take into account running a heat pump? I guess the time they are generating most output is when you are using least electricity. If it could heat the water in summer you could use more of the produced energy, have read about diverters. Has anyone got experience of retrofitting to existing system? We have ecodan packaged cylinder running 14kw ecodan ho with ufh throughout

No gas in the village. Average is 500kwh a month. Dhw seems to be main driver for consumption. Thought about solar thermal panels but doesn’t seem to be cost effective & doesn’t provide much in winter. Hoping levies will be reduced on electricity over the next decade

Our weather compensation curve

This is what the boost circulation is connected to. Pump I’m guessing?!

Seems a lot not that we spend that amount of time!

Flow rate at 3 bar pressure 24 l/min according to the spec of shower head

I’ll have a look! no, just the one halfway down

I don’t think water is being circulated unless hit the boost on the premise it’ll sit in the pipes cooling which is a waste. Or will this not happen as much as the slab is up to temperature? Keen to understand as much as possible before cold weather hits!

It’s a rain shower but we don’t spend that long in there. numpty question but how do I know the ufh loop is open?

So does that suggest that only half the tank is up to temp?

Me too! It drops a degree every couple hours otherwise. I assumed it was filling up tank with cold water when the hot was consumed so was mixing. I think the temp probe is midway down tank so figured there is warmer water at the top

If we click on boost on this it send hot water to the taps