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Sorry for the terrible video, but this is sound around the buffer tank that is not normal

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Normal temperature

The UFH is off so house not hot and I have checked everywhere and seen no obvious sign off escape of water

It’s like it’s tried to do it’s sterilisation but not managed to get upto temperature and just continuously ran

I am going to answer these to the best of my knowledge 🙈😂 The immersion heater for the hot water is fed from the ASHP, I think there is just an immersion heater in the dhw it sounded like the noise was from around the buffer tank but the ufh was turned off on the controller

Hi I have an ASHP that has 100L buffer tank and 300L DHW tank, I finally had my hot water commissioned couple of weeks ago. I have turned the UFH off left the hot water on and it has kept ticking over the last couple of weeks and has been fine (used hardly any electricity as not been living there) Yesterday when I was at the house it sounded like water was ‘cycling/flushing’ just within the plant room where all my tanks are which I hadn’t heard before and it was doing constantly and when I checked the energy monitor it has used 100kwh in 24 hours!! I turned the Ashp controller off and it stopped, I had the plumber over today and he turned it back on and it wouldn’t do the same thing but I am concious this will most likely happen again I know this is a very vague issue but has any body got any idea what this could be? literally any ideas/ suggestions will be very much appreciated many thanks

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Hi @Tumble Since insulating all the pipework and turning the system on I have had no condensation issues

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The MVHR is fully installed, it’s just the loft insulation that is only half done Do you mean wait until fully insulated too? We are not living there currently

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