LMSC Imagine trying to get a heat pump one out. For a gas boiler the most you pay for spares/fix is closely related to the cost of a new boiler. I expect heat pump repair costs will have a similar relationship.
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Cuprajake I had called about 10-12 of the local guys in a radius of 5-6 miles, and found just one agreeing to pencil us in for next week. I haven’t told this person it is Hive, as a couple of the other guys advised they won’t touch it as it is messy to deal with! 😳 🤞
Normally, these guys are busy at this time of the year. One of them was saying it is busier than normal this time. I am thinking if the energy crises have contributed to this.
DavecUK Imagine trying to get a heat pump one out.
Perhaps, one may have to wait for a a few months including a freezing winter time at home! 😳
LMSC Perhaps, one may have to wait for a a few months including a freezing winter time at home! 😳
Worse with replacement heat pump costing 6K and another 1K to install it..2.5K+ repair bills will be something that will become more common.
All for a device that has a probable build cost of less than £800 and a retail price that will only increase once they are mandated. You know there’s something wrong when a member of the HOL stated the only way to get people to buy heatpumps is to ban gas boilers. So “they” know people don’t want them despite a massive push in disinformation trying to persuade people.
Well the temps really dropped now, I got some small thermometers to put in the bedrooms and living room
The thermostat says 17.5 for the hall, the bedrooms are around 18,
But this is were my moral dilemma comes in. My little girl said she felt cold. So my plan is to keep the house at 18.
For me this is a right cunts trick that in the modern world, where people work fucking hard, we are living cold, paying more than we ever have to just survive.
Wank all round!!
The people that run the country are sooo far out of touch with people. It’s in true
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Cuprajake But this is were my moral dilemma comes in. My little girl said she felt cold. So my plan is to keep the house at 18.
Remember what advice we were given, she needs to do some star jumps! 😁
There’s also the warm hubs…..
P.S. Once people realise this, and worse, will be what net zero looks like, perhaps they will protest
Against the law soon to protests.
I see the chancellor is trying to remove the bankers bonuses caps…
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All of this regulation is stifling progress. Remember the trickle down economics we’ll all benefit from. I know it’s been 50 years coming, but you must remember- we’re all in for a massive winfall - if we stop now we’ll lose it all
Cuprajake Those poor bankers have had a tough time of it, think of their well being. Especially how much it will benefit us all when they get larger bonuses.
Not to forget that the banks got massive bailouts
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Cuprajake Not to forget that the banks got massive bailouts
Well we couldn’t let them fail and simply give account holders the money ….that would have been cheaper, and too simple. Sure they profited massively, or tried to on ridiculously bad investments….but hey ho.
We can’t blame the banks, especially not for the huge increase in house prices and mortgage indebtiness. Lending huge multiples of salaries, who could have forseen the effects. The guvnor of the BOE has even made the genius leap that raising interest rates can’t control the type of inflation we have…but they’re still going to do it. 🤣
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Fuel companies exposed as complete fucking liars and cheats - well I never
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dutchy101 the problem is, who do you believe? If I use logical thinking and scientific knowledge to come up with a solution, there is a total mismatch with what most countries are doing. So either I am completely thick or we are being deceived.
Nuclear fusion is a complete con from those supposedly always to be trusted scientists. It might well be possible one day, but not in a timescale where anyone living today will ever see.
And all this without me being concerned with climate change per se, but humankind spaffing such a valuable resource as coal, gas and oil up the wall, just to make electricity, heat homes, and fuel cars (planes, ships …).
I thought they were upstanding members of the community
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So, who has used their heating yet. Mine has not been on so far, waiting until at least mid October.
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DavecUK - we just had it on for 1 hour. 😬
Not yet and not until late October unless it gets really chilly. Then it will be the log burner only supplemented by the central heating when we’re desperate…
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Not so far! However, I don’t think my 83 year old MIL would manage until late Oct. Normally, we don’t switch the heater on unless it is too cold.
Mine came in for an hour the other day. 16deg it was in the house
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Our upstairs heating came on a few days ago and again this morning. Will be turning it down when the wife is not looking,lol. She does like it warm. It was set at 19 but should be 18 really. I am surprised that it came on as the house is well insulated being only 3 years old. We have underfloor heating downstairs which has not come on as yet. We are lucky that each room is individually controlled so we have quite good control over the temperature in all areas downstairs. The lowest temperature that we have seen so far is 20.5. Jumpers have been brought out. Just wished that we had a log burner, might see if we could get one installed.