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We have the ASHP to heat the water on a schedule. It only comes on for a set period around tea time. We have found that having it on for a few hours around tea time/early evening means we have plenty of hot water to see us through. E.g. This was one morning after the hot water had been off almost 10 hours (after we had had showers the night before). By lunchtime it had dropped a bit. So, what I'm saying is we don't have the hot water consistently heated by the heat pump it's timed.

I didn't no. I will get one. How do I use it if we have LVT flooring?

It could have been due to settings on the heat pump but I'm now confident in the past few days there is nothing but when the Solic is generating the meter on the immersion goes up.

Nope we have a separate meter one for immersion one for HP. I can see the immersion and I was checking this and in the space 2 weeks of monitoring this it only went up 4 units. Every setting to do with the immersion on the heat pump is off which includes the disenfectent cycle on the heat pump. What I have noticed is if any solar is going to the immersion (you know when it's working as the Solic lights up green) so for today for example as it's sunny, the meter on the immersion goes up. I don't know if this is normal.

This week (since last Friday afternoon) has been the worse for units of electricity for the ASHP. We started good with 30-40 units at the weekend for the heat pump. And the week has been terrible. We are up to between 60-70 units for the heat pump with all our room stats remaining on between 20 and 20.5 degrees. Since yesterday afternoon the HP is already on 71 units! Temperatures here have been between -5 and -1 degrees all week and it 'feels' around -7. It's bitter. How I wish the external insulation was in because our bills are huge. Total consumption for the week 390 units of heat pump and '60' other units. What I'm yet to establish is why in some 24 hours periods our 'other' use is 3 units and at other times 18! We now have an electricity monitor and I've just watched it go from 300w to 3.2kWh and I've no idea why as no room is calling for heat and we haven't turned on any big appliances....

I'll definitely use them for bedroom lights, we have spots elsewhere and already sorted our dining room light. We got a few bits from Amazon Warehouse on their 20% clearance days which are probably some of the same suppliers on Ali Express (not just lighting but bathroom showers Mira etc).

You lost me at Rasp Pi ? Unless it's the sweet shortcrust pastry variety

Hahaha nope! The wife did.... though she is more familiar with railway signalling and electronics I have more faith in her skills . . .

Have to say I'm pleasantly surprised. It took about 3 months to arrive but we got this for our living room after I saw the Tom Dixon 'Beat' ones. Looks pretty smart. Got some dimmable filament bulbs and it has a nice orange glow from the bronze.

It's my new obsession. As I've been monitoring our heat pump use daily along with the solar too it's meant I've been able to separate out the heating/hot water over other things. What we can't seem to work out is why in the past 24 hours it doubled for our 'other' use.

Perfect thanks I'll have a look on eBay now.

Someone did link one somewhere but I can't find it now. We are monitoring our HP use now daily but I want to try and work out what our 'other' use is. Between Friday and Monday our other use (not heat pump) averaged out at 8.3kWh a day but they between yesterday afternoon and today it was 20kWh and we can't work out why.

Thank you for this. In the box that says 3 phase I'm guessing that is blank and in the single phase PH1 I'm putting 3.6kW and then 1 in the power factor box?

Just had a root around and I think I have it here, well actually we have two not sure if I should send both.

Oh I forget to upload the form....

Hi I really need to get this done sorted for the solar. Anything over 3.68 is diverted to the solar immersion. Can anyone advise what info I should be putting onto this chart. I am presuming the details I should be recording is the inverter, so the Growatt 3600MTL-S? Thanks

I may just eat my words.... The drains man located a small flat frisbee shaped stone which was causing some problems with the pump. Now removed..... He is popping back in a few hours but it seems this could have been the cause. Plumber now also checking traps but I think these are fine.....

Drains/septic tank guy here .... STP pump 'working but not' muttering about blockage. Plumber also coming out. Now it's not us putting anything down it we shouldn't, we have been very careful so the question is what's the issue as it's only impacting on the ensuite toilet the other two are fine. I just knew it had to be the plumber.....

Thanks for that.... ?? We do have mice, shrews and voles. I know because they chewed through a lot of our items in our dry storage in the outbuildings as well as destroying some wiring in my car and chewing through my MOT and insurance papers..... We had quite a few traps in place in the outbuildings and it was a daily task lady year. I may need to get the traps and peanut butter out again....

I think it's like a gas sort of smell. It's not like any farm smell and I grew up on a farm! I've had my nose practically down each plughole inside the vanity unit and by the loo and it doesn't appear to be coming from any of these points. It's not musty or mouldy either. They all said I have never smelt a rotting animal either ?

We are evacuating into the other side of the house. Went to get ready for bed and use our ensuite and oh my god do we have a bad smell. Literally makes my eyes water it's absolutely disgusting. We don't have an opening window as it's a flat roof skylight so have the fan on with little impact. Shut all doors to stop it drifting through house. Our ensuite is used regularly, probably more than any other. The weird thing is I can't pinpoint it coming from anywhere in particular and my sense of smell is acute (unfortunately). I know we have a durga valve in there. All other loos fine and no smells.

I was out off with the Agile tarrif and knowing my luck our main use will be when it's higher. The Octopus Go rates for us are slightly more expensive in the day but we may look at the Go Faster which has cheaper rates from 8:30pm rather than the 0:30-4:30am (we don't have electric cars).

It's warmer where you are it's now 2 degrees here. I'll be lighting the woodburner later.

What temperature do you have your thermostats set to? We had ours set at 19 degrees which we found too cool and even then (with outside temperatures around 8-10 degrees) our consumption and DHW on a schedule we were still in around 25kWh. Today with temperatures of 3 degrees and in the 24 hour period since yesterday with our thermostats raised to 20 degrees we have used just over 40kWh with the heat pump. You will have seen on my thread we don't have EWI yet which I'm hoping will help in the longer term.

That's interesting. I guess I can keep monitoring it to see what happens. At the moment it's just about monitoring it each week and seeing what is having an impact.