EPCs are total horseshit. The inspector goes into the house looks around a bit if you're lucky, and then makes a series of assumptions about pretty much everything and then bills you. (View Post)

Any old heat pump will work with any gas heating system, it is just that to get the flow temperature up to 60 deg C or so it will need to use a lot of direct electricity to top up the refrigerant cyc… (View Post)

I used to design domestic heat pump systems... "Most" homes is disingenuous. Any home built since 2010 should be perfectly capable of being comfortably heated by a heat hump without extra i… (View Post)

The term irritates me too and I am woke as fuck (View Post)

Nothing wrong with new houses having heat pumps. They work great, provided that the heating system is designed and sized for the lower flow temperature of a heat pump rather than a gas boiler. Simple… (View Post)