Another good vid. Yes, do a video about the Japanese loo. Have used in Japan and am keen to install them here in my UK home so a vid on those, esp around cost would be appreciated
Having lived in Japan for a year, you should defo spread the word how great these toilets are. Would be interested in what model you have and how much to buy/install. Enjoying the heat pump install vids. We have x4 A2A wall units (17kW of heating) but retained our gas central heating system. With our 31 solar panels we can pick and choose which is the cheapest heating source depending on the weather conditions and Octopus tariffs. Currently using the A2As with the Cosy tariff but will see if we need to adjust as it gets colder outside. 🤓
Once the current chaos is over, I plan to create a video next week about the toilets. These are UK versions, so they fit our pipes, and the remote control is in English, making it easy for visitors to use. I did consider an air-to-air system, but since we have so much battery capacity, it ended up being an easy decision. Once we remodel the kitchen next year, we will remove the gas hob, marking our complete transition away from gas.
@@JonathanTracey Don't you have to have the gas meter removed to get the BUS grant? Which presumably means your gas hob will be out of action. I had our gas hob removed back in the summer, until the new induction hob was installed we used one of those two ring portable ones, it worked very well. I thought outside consumer units had a bit of a bad reputation, and are best avoided.
does not look like it, when they submitted the grant application it stated the gas boiler was being removed and we were keeping the gas hob for another 6 months until the kitchen was refitted. Grant was approved in less than 24 hours
@@JonathanTracey It is just a well insulated water tank with one pipe in and one pipe out so it increases the system volume giving the heat pump more water to work with. This smooths out the cycling, especially in the shoulder months of heating. System volume is calculated by adding all the water capacity of your radiators and pipework together. Your heat pump will have a minimum requirement, but more is always better. If you have low system volume, the heat pump will quickly get the flow temperature up to where it needs to be and then quickly shut off, especially if it's on minimum modulation and the system in the house can't shed any more heat. With a volumiser you are slowing down the heat up and cool down process, which means the heat pump can run even lower and slower. Hope that helps. I might do a video about this.
@UpsideDownFork that makes sense, I assume by having the heat pump running to heat a larger volume of water it stops it cycling on and off so much? And therefore making it more efficient you should definitely do a video on this as I thought I did my research before the install, but there’s so much that I’m learning in last few days that I just didn’t get to.
@@UpsideDownFork They are also there to provide water for defrost encase radiators have be shut by TRVs. When ours was serviced this was checked by turning off the flow and return and the water then went via a bypass valve thought the volumiser. The flow rated was check to see if it was more then 22l/m.
@@bryanhindle8307 Yep, that can be a strategy. A better strategy would be to not fit TRV's, but clearly that's a big mountain to climb before we get there.
1:33 I queried this on the Daikin Facebook forum as our friend doesn't have one installed. I was told that there is one internally built into the ASHP and the only reason an external one is installed is if the location of the ASHP is adversely impacted by heating from Sunshine........
Cosy six was a little to untested for my liking. I love bleeding edge tech but not willing to risk my heating system on it. The Daikin has millions of hours of customer use and gets great reviews, Also the wait for cosy six is quite long.
The smaller tank above the hot water tank looks like an expansion vessel to me and this fits your description. Do you actually have a buffer somewhere or is there just a volumiser. Note that volumisers are needed when the volume of water needs to be increased to support the HP and its defrost cycles. A buffer is a BAD idea unless it is absolutely necessary as they reduce efficiency and hence cost more to run. I can't see any evidence of a buffer on your system at the moment.
the buffer is only there to handle excess pressure and should not be needed, the volumiser is the other tank in the attic. we had our first defrost cycle yesterday so assume some water from there was used
Do you know if the external temperature sensor was supplied by Daikin as part of the installation kit, or was it an additional item ordered by the system designer ? Reason I ask is that it wasn't provided on my instal, and if part of kit would give me some ammunition to request it be installed. It is certainly mentioned in the Daikin installation manual as a requirement.
The team said it’s something that they install as part of every installation, but they’re not sure if it comes as part of the Heat Pump or it’s a part that is ordered separately
Hello Johnathon, we have 2 problems. 1- TH-cam will not let me view part 3 of your video and 2- is it possible for a Cat to get frostbite if left out on the washing line for too long?
You will bring out all the scatologiacs out of the woodwork, or even the toilets😂 We had the local bishop as our RE teacher at school, he must have had an interest in French post modern philosophy and was taking a sabbatical to author a book on child psychology in relation to the infants relationship with his/her waste products. Very strange chap whom probably shouldn’t have been at an all boys school.
Here for the toilet
there is a phrase i hear from grandson
Another good vid. Yes, do a video about the Japanese loo. Have used in Japan and am keen to install them here in my UK home so a vid on those, esp around cost would be appreciated
will do a video next week current chaos is over. these are UK versions so fit our pipes and the remote is in english so easy for visitors to use :-)
Yes yes another vote for the wc 😊
Sure I am amazed how many of you are interested in a toilet that raises it own seat :-)
I thought we were advanced when we first got a soft closing WC lid but self opening ld is the next level 😂
Of you have no idea, this thing is space age compared to soft close :-)
Very impressed with the neatness of the work.
the team have been fantastic, no complaints from me
Great series, thanks for documenting.
Glad you like them, let me know if you have specific questions you would like answered.
Can we see more of the Bernese dogs I had one for 13 years
sure they will make plenty of appearances, they really do t have any concept of personal space 😂
Having lived in Japan for a year, you should defo spread the word how great these toilets are. Would be interested in what model you have and how much to buy/install.
Enjoying the heat pump install vids. We have x4 A2A wall units (17kW of heating) but retained our gas central heating system. With our 31 solar panels we can pick and choose which is the cheapest heating source depending on the weather conditions and Octopus tariffs. Currently using the A2As with the Cosy tariff but will see if we need to adjust as it gets colder outside. 🤓
Once the current chaos is over, I plan to create a video next week about the toilets. These are UK versions, so they fit our pipes, and the remote control is in English, making it easy for visitors to use. I did consider an air-to-air system, but since we have so much battery capacity, it ended up being an easy decision. Once we remodel the kitchen next year, we will remove the gas hob, marking our complete transition away from gas.
@@JonathanTracey Don't you have to have the gas meter removed to get the BUS grant? Which presumably means your gas hob will be out of action. I had our gas hob removed back in the summer, until the new induction hob was installed we used one of those two ring portable ones, it worked very well. I thought outside consumer units had a bit of a bad reputation, and are best avoided.
does not look like it, when they submitted the grant application it stated the gas boiler was being removed and we were keeping the gas hob for another 6 months until the kitchen was refitted. Grant was approved in less than 24 hours
The small high level tank is known as an expansion vessel.
A volumiser can be a good tool to reduce cycling thus increasing efficiency.
haven't had a chance to talk to the plumber yet but do you know how it increases efficiency? I am on a bit of a plumbing crash course :-)
@@JonathanTracey It is just a well insulated water tank with one pipe in and one pipe out so it increases the system volume giving the heat pump more water to work with.
This smooths out the cycling, especially in the shoulder months of heating.
System volume is calculated by adding all the water capacity of your radiators and pipework together. Your heat pump will have a minimum requirement, but more is always better.
If you have low system volume, the heat pump will quickly get the flow temperature up to where it needs to be and then quickly shut off, especially if it's on minimum modulation and the system in the house can't shed any more heat.
With a volumiser you are slowing down the heat up and cool down process, which means the heat pump can run even lower and slower.
Hope that helps. I might do a video about this.
@UpsideDownFork that makes sense, I assume by having the heat pump running to heat a larger volume of water it stops it cycling on and off so much? And therefore making it more efficient you should definitely do a video on this as I thought I did my research before the install, but there’s so much that I’m learning in last few days that I just didn’t get to.
@@UpsideDownFork They are also there to provide water for defrost encase radiators have be shut by TRVs. When ours was serviced this was checked by turning off the flow and return and the water then went via a bypass valve thought the volumiser. The flow rated was check to see if it was more then 22l/m.
@@bryanhindle8307 Yep, that can be a strategy.
A better strategy would be to not fit TRV's, but clearly that's a big mountain to climb before we get there.
1:42 that's not a buffer its a Cold Water Expansion Vessel and you should have a Red one for Hot Water Expansion but the explanation is correct.
1:33 I queried this on the Daikin Facebook forum as our friend doesn't have one installed.
I was told that there is one internally built into the ASHP and the only reason an external one is installed is if the location of the ASHP is adversely impacted by heating from Sunshine........
ah good to know thanks
You might have covered this in another video but I’d be interested to know why you went for this heat pump as opposed to the new cozy 6?
Cosy six was a little to untested for my liking. I love bleeding edge tech but not willing to risk my heating system on it. The Daikin has millions of hours of customer use and gets great reviews, Also the wait for cosy six is quite long.
@ thank you, that’s very helpful 👍
any time
The smaller tank above the hot water tank looks like an expansion vessel to me and this fits your description. Do you actually have a buffer somewhere or is there just a volumiser. Note that volumisers are needed when the volume of water needs to be increased to support the HP and its defrost cycles. A buffer is a BAD idea unless it is absolutely necessary as they reduce efficiency and hence cost more to run. I can't see any evidence of a buffer on your system at the moment.
the buffer is only there to handle excess pressure and should not be needed, the volumiser is the other tank in the attic. we had our first defrost cycle yesterday so assume some water from there was used
Do you know if the external temperature sensor was supplied by Daikin as part of the installation kit, or was it an additional item ordered by the system designer ?
Reason I ask is that it wasn't provided on my instal, and if part of kit would give me some ammunition to request it be installed.
It is certainly mentioned in the Daikin installation manual as a requirement.
The team said it’s something that they install as part of every installation, but they’re not sure if it comes as part of the Heat Pump or it’s a part that is ordered separately
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Thanks for the update.
no worries. they said it should have come with one so i would ask octopus why it didn’t
Hello Johnathon, we have 2 problems. 1- TH-cam will not let me view part 3 of your video and 2- is it possible for a Cat to get frostbite if left out on the washing line for too long?
Not sure what is wrong for you on part 3, but the second issue is the cats to resolve
Here for the dogs......oh no!
which one
You will bring out all the scatologiacs out of the woodwork, or even the toilets😂
We had the local bishop as our RE teacher at school, he must have had an interest in French post modern philosophy and was taking a sabbatical to author a book on child psychology in relation to the infants relationship with his/her waste products. Very strange chap whom probably shouldn’t have been at an all boys school.
That’s a consequence I hadn’t thought about😂