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Oh and TAKE A METER READING today! And then report back tomorrow at the same time with the new reading alongside what your bill was in December last year. That’s the only way you will find out how much it costs to run.

You need to bite the bullet and let it run long enough to get that room up to the desired temperature I think. Don’t keep switching it off after you think it’s run for long enough. When I switch my UFH on for the first time in the autumn it takes a while the first day to get to the required temperature but it doesn’t take nearly as long thereafter.

So what scheme was it done under? @zoothorn do you have any paperwork that explains what funding was used? That has to be the first step before any contact with Welsh Energy is made surely? https://www.welshenergy.com/energy-efficiency-grants-wales/

So why wouldn’t a provider not just walk away? And if they haven’t and the solution can’t cope then surely there must be some sort of comeback / complaints procedure? Reminds me a bit of this newspaper article ... https://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/13560306.noise-of-heating-like-torture/

Congrats! Looks fab.

Reading your post again I think you expect the ASHP to get to temperature by 8am if the ASHP switches on at 6.30? I don’t have an ASHP but I don’t think they work exactly like a boiler which is how it appears you are trying to use it. I would have thought that it needs to switch on earlier than 6.30?

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/members/glan-gluaisne.114623/#recentActivity

He’s active on the Tesla forum under a new username someone found. Had to be Jeremy if you read some of his posts.

Simple enough if you tend to use roughly the same number of units on an ordinary day. It’s only the additional units that @zoothorn should be interested in, and we’re talking in terms of cost, nothing more. If zoot reads the meter and calculates that his bill isn’t going to explode then all good. If it is then some further investigation is needed as to the cause with hourly readings being taken. I did that with my meter over the course of a couple of weeks and have a fairly decent idea of what standard usage is and how using various appliances affects the usage. Did all that in preparation for moving to an agile tariff only to be refused as there are no smart meters as yet for domestic 3 phase, or at least not one that I can get hold of anyway.

And Jeremy himself has vanished into thin air too!

You can still see it in the Wayback machine (not sure if it’s there in its entirety). If you find what you are looking for I suggest you save the details you need. https://web.archive.org/web/20200923193339/http://www.mayfly.eu/ I’ve no idea why Jeremy and the blog have disappeared in truth.

I’ve probably missed this somewhere but does your ASHP do it’s own thing and come on when it thinks it needs to or is it set to go off at specific times? And the only way you’ll work out how much it is costing you is to read the meter daily and calculate it. No point in stressing over something that’s easy to work out. Once you know how much it’s costing you can either rest easy or have some further evidence to go back to the company with. Did they tell you what the COP should be as it should use at least 2 or 3 times less energy than the heat it produces at these “not quite winter” temperatures surely?

Well I did A levels in science rather than history and politics ?

Do you really want the room set to 22c? That would be way too warm for me in any room. I generally have bedrooms at 18 and living room where I’m sitting down all the time @ 20. Can you play around with the thermostat a bit? Turn the rads down 50% in the room with the thermostat and see if that makes a difference. If not turn the thermostat up one degree the next day and check again. I would be doing things like that initially as they are easily in your control to do so. Also at the same time each day make a note of your meter reading. Maybe do it at night too initially as this will give you accurate 12 hour usage figures. You can then determine how much electricity you are using with the different temperature settings that you are using to tweak the system. This is how I worked out the most optimal way to run my heating system as with an electric boiler it can be expensive, so I don’t just use it as plug in and leave, I physically control when the boiler comes on and switches off. Once I can move to a variable tariff I will be literally quids in. I know that you are mostly concerned about getting the rooms heated appropriately currently but do you have a smart meter, and what electric tariff are you on?

Yes if they are for nornal internal doors they will need a different solution. Mine are just used on cupboards so don’t need to be hidden. There is no reason why the ones you’ve linked to wouldn’t work if they are lined up properly but my dogs would be able to push them open so I couldn’t use them on internal doors. Depends whether you have any pets you want to stay in a specific room I guess.

Mine just have a couple of small magnets at the top. They need a tug to open.

I only have them on large cupboard doors but have had no issues with them.

My brother uses an Solar Immersion controller to divert his excess PV. Been running for years (his is an older model) and never skipped a beat. https://solarimmersion.co.uk

We did pretty much the same thing when we moved here. There was a privet hedge growing out of control between us and next door. We cut the hedge back and installed a low fence at the boundary. Much of the hedge was on our side so the part of the neighbours’ hedge that remained was pretty sparse. They allowed remaining hedge to grow over the next couple of years and it looks fine now albeit a bit lower, and they bought some different, more attractive plants where the hedge was no more. We would have lost about a metre or so off our driveway leaving the hedge where it was and new shoots were constantly sprouting through the ground so it had to go. Seems as if your neighbour has done the same. Nothing wrong with that unless the issue is with the boundary which is a question of placement rather than execution. Old privet hedge in front, new bamboo behind.

I had one of 16k and one of 30k ?????

he sold it to @ProDave as he had never used it with his original Sunamp. Then the new one arrived and they started running out of hot water (oops).

That’s what motivated me to get some current quotes too. First one in was nearly 30k with the vat. Ouch! Second one in is just under 16k. Still a lot of money to add to the grant.

Plus if you combine the GHG with RHI you stand to lose a lot less if you decide to move within 7 years. A bird in the hand being worth 2 in the bush and all that.

Grants are already covered in the RHI scheme rules. The GHG will follow the same rules in that the entire grant value will be deducted from RHI payments so it nets out to the same but you get the grant money upfront to pay towards the install. https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/key-term-explained/grants The installers have been sent a detailed 28 page guide but I haven’t seen it.