Virtual Visit a Heat Pump: Take a tour of my Octopus Energy Heat Pump Installation

Have you heard about the Visit a Heat Pump scheme from NESTA? Check it out here:
But rather than actually getting up and going somewhere to see one, why not check out my virtual tour where I try to cover off the most common questions people have about heat pump installations.

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First Month With My Octopus Installed Daikin Heat Pump

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[GaryDoesSolar]

Thanks for making this video, STTG - I'll be looking for a heat pump before long and it's great to see a virtual tour like this, to get a very good idea on all the elements involved and how everything is wired up 👍

[jeanh]

Thanks, Oliver. I did visit a house with a heat pump under the Nesta scheme. I found it a very valuable experience. I was struck by how comfortable the house was temperature wise. A very comfortable all enveloping heat and surprised by the size of the heat pump.
I am also getting £100 off my final Octopus installation bill.
I think your video will prove very useful to people who cannot do an in person visit.

[Muppetkeeper]

We should start a library of these. I will watch this then try to do something similar with my 4 year old heat pump installation.

[gsnary]

Thank you for the video, always good to watch them, Interesting to see you have a braided flexible hose so you can re pressurise your system. We had our Octopus install in July and have only recently used it for heating. We've needed to bleed the radiators, the pressure has dropped but our install doesn't have the braided hose so we can't re pressure it.

[jakeartis]

I'm having the exact same system installed by octopus just before Christmas in December! I'm super excited as I removed the old back boiler a a year ago (was a very cold winter).

I've put fresh plumbing 15mm, electrics and radiators ready for the heat pump. My property has some old solar panels so the heat pump should allow me to get the most out of the energy that's produced 🙌

[TypeRhino]

Hello have you found a way of getting your givenergy battery and heat pump to link with agile. The goal being that it can charge the battery twice a day when prices are cheaper. Once in the early hours in the morning and then in the afternoon when prices are low. To achieve this automatically rather than going into the givenergy app remote control section and settingthe charge times. I hope this makes sense. I have talked to givenergy they say the system is agile compatible but int reality you need to go into remote control and set it there.

[MrWobling]

Thanks - I learned a lot of useful stuff about heatpumps from this video. I had no idea some heatpumps run water in the pipes to the external unit; always assumed it was refrigerant.

[JonathanTracey]

Which Shelly device did you use, I’m getting the same model heat pump in a few weeks and would like to add a Shelly

[peterjones]

I am curious about the online quote versus the final quote after the onsite survey. My property is a bungalow with mostly underfloor heating, no microbore, I have 22mm main supply with 15mm to rads and easy short run to the heat pump and tank location. Is that likley to lower the quote versus the online quote ?

[fazkhan]

Is Cosy 6 replacing the conventional heat pump ?

[chrisholland]

Could some explain why do you need TVRs if they should be left fully open. Still building up my knowledge base so would welcome some advice.

[Gazmaz]

Nice and clear and a good explanation 👍🏼

[Deanus]

Your Octopus install looks so much cleaner than ours, ignoring the fact you have it spread out nicely on a wall and not in an airing cupboard / loft. Mainly the external insulation looks very shoddy by comparison. Seems to function at least, got it in July and fingers crossed for winter.

[paddymcgillicuddy]

Hi Oliver. Thanks for the tour. That black box is just a standard junction box. I assume it is branching off to your outdoor temperature sensor? (Required for weather compensation to work properly)

[afaulconbridge]

Is the mystery box on the wall a weather sensor, to measure outside temperature and humidity so the heating system can compensate automatically (e.g. hotter temps on colder days, cooler and more efficient temps when its only chilly outsider)

[mamwah]

Do you have the measurements of the footprint of the ASHP including the soak away?

[DavidBond]

I looked to get a heat pump from Octopus in my home in Scotland. Turns out they don't do Scotland installation. 😢
Nice to see your heatpump tour. Will consider getting one next.
I got my solar panels recently. 🎉

[davidcoates]

Great video, made me laugh a few times at the start! There are lots of stats videos on YouTube, but not as many looking at the bits installed, like this vid. It'd be nice to see a quick thermal camera walk around tour of it in winter, once we get below 0.

[dukeatreides]

I have a quote from Octopus for the same unit, the one thing holding me back is I have an EV and Intelligent Octopus so it's 7p per kwH overnight, but this wouldn't work with a heat pump as that's exactly the time I don't want to heat my home, unless I'm missing something? Nice video, thanks for sharing.

[digitalfantazia]

That box will be related to connecting to external air temp sensor... which should be north facing in the shade.