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That was tough!

@Anomnomnomaly there is always something nasty hidden in every project :(

Sounds like you’re doing really well after the changes you’ve made!

Wife and I were talking earlier and December this year was approximately £120 cheaper than last year when we were gas and electric, so I’ll happily take that!

We’re considering increasing our battery capacity again as mornings absolutely kill us right now (water and heating) so our 10Kwh into the battery from the 4am session gets to 0930ish

@Anomnomnomaly totally missed this reply somehow!

Yeah that’s a decent amount of storage, if memory serves I think my inverter is 6Kwh and I’ve 10Kwh of battery storage (currently 3 3.something batteries in parallel)

Our house is mid to late nineties and is probably on 10mm pipework (I can’t recall) Octopus replaced any radiators as part of the cost if they didn’t meet a 90 something % heat output for the room.

Total quote all in was £15k, we paid £7.5 thanks to the grant.

@Anomnomnomaly yeah it’s tricky, don’t forget as well that if you get off gas totally then you can save at least £100 per year in standing charges.

Panels are cheap enough and there is some really good stuff you can buy to DIY it as a friend of mine has done but he’s not put solar in yet, just battery storage and the inverter, charges the batteries off peak and runs off them in peak.

We just got heat pump done through octopus with the grant, it was seamless really, having the data

@Anomnomnomaly exactly that mate.
Air source heat pump for water and heating.

I think December was £230, November £190 there or there about.

It’s swings and round abouts, it was only installed in summer so I’ll have a better idea of the swing next year but at times in summer this year we were exporting upwards of 30kwh a day as we couldn’t use / store it!