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To answer the question directly, not necessarily but instead of disturbing existing CU and installing a new circuit the thinking might have been to install a second CU for convenience and ease of installation.
If I've understood I think you'll find it's the other way around., oil fired system out, heat pump in.Its so when they have to tear the inefficient heat pump out to fit the wood burner they wont have to disturb the existing CU
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Oil fired out, heat pump in. There's already a solid fuel stove installed.
I moved in last October and the house had been vacant for a few months previous to that. It was 16 degrees centigrade before I lit the fire. When checking the heat pump I got the house to 27 or 28 degrees overnight. I'm not being a fanboi but they can be very good in the right house, insulted and draught proofed as this one is. All it really does is heat the domestic hot water, the heating thermostat is set to 10 degrees so it never comes on. I switch it on every month or so just to keep it moving. There may be a setting to do this automatically, I should look for it.
I moved in last October and the house had been vacant for a few months previous to that. It was 16 degrees centigrade before I lit the fire. When checking the heat pump I got the house to 27 or 28 degrees overnight. I'm not being a fanboi but they can be very good in the right house, insulted and draught proofed as this one is. All it really does is heat the domestic hot water, the heating thermostat is set to 10 degrees so it never comes on. I switch it on every month or so just to keep it moving. There may be a setting to do this automatically, I should look for it.
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Blobber's reply was tongue in cheek I think, or at least that's how I see the sofa emoji being used. Like all electric cars catch fire or cause multi storey car parks to collapse.
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I did wonder if the regs had changed between times. I might have to wait until they change back before I combine the two.
OK, sorry missed that.
Nothing wrong with heat pumps, correctly installed and as you say the right property.
Unfortunately that counts out imo 90% + of UK housing stock without vast amounts of money being spent or starting again, both will never happen and yet heat/ground source systems are constantly pushed at us as an alternative, yet our governments and their stated goals know full well are unachievable with the current state of domestic properties as they stand--or lean.
As a nation we soldier on, trying to keep our houses warm, charged an exorbitant price for our energy, priced and purchased using an inane pricing structure.
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you can still use the spare ways in a plastic consumer unit if you want . a good reason putting a seperate one in is your not responsible for any wiring in the existing unit and dont have to test it
do it all the time if its a chew
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Pain in the rectum!
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having to put right faults or bringing the existing instalation up to the mark and certify it .
