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thebeefchief
Hi there,
I'm due to start renting a new build house this week and have been allowed in for the past few days so we can move our stuff in. It's a four bedroom detached house with an air source heat pump system, which I have absolutely no prior knowledge of whatsoever. There's also solar for the hot water, although I don't think that's working properly, but that's another issue.
Over a 24 hour period between 8am yesterday and 8am today, with nothing on but the heating (which had been set to stay on all day) the house used 75 units of electricity. The wee red light on the meter was going crazy. Both the heating and hot water controls were set to "on" throughout that entire period, as I say.
Today I did an experiment and put the controls onto timed, setting them both to go off at 8:30 and stay off until 5pm today. I checked the meter and the light was blinking once every 30 seconds, as opposed to 2 times a second as it was with the pump going.
I swung back at 1:30 to see what was happening and the light was blinking like mad again. I checked the usage and the meter had gone through 13 units - which averages out at pretty much exactly what it was using yesterday when the heating was on.
I checked the pump unit out the back and sure enough it was humming away with the blades spinning, yet both heating and hot water were set to be off.
So my question is - does the pump keep pumping regardless of what heat the controls are set to output, or should the pump only kick in when the timer does? I checked the control panel in the garage and the pump wasn't in defrost mode, so I have no clue as to why it was running when the heating and hot water aren't set to come on until 5:30pm.
Anyone have any ideas? I really can't afford to pay 75 units of electricity a day before even switching on a single light.
I'm due to start renting a new build house this week and have been allowed in for the past few days so we can move our stuff in. It's a four bedroom detached house with an air source heat pump system, which I have absolutely no prior knowledge of whatsoever. There's also solar for the hot water, although I don't think that's working properly, but that's another issue.
Over a 24 hour period between 8am yesterday and 8am today, with nothing on but the heating (which had been set to stay on all day) the house used 75 units of electricity. The wee red light on the meter was going crazy. Both the heating and hot water controls were set to "on" throughout that entire period, as I say.
Today I did an experiment and put the controls onto timed, setting them both to go off at 8:30 and stay off until 5pm today. I checked the meter and the light was blinking once every 30 seconds, as opposed to 2 times a second as it was with the pump going.
I swung back at 1:30 to see what was happening and the light was blinking like mad again. I checked the usage and the meter had gone through 13 units - which averages out at pretty much exactly what it was using yesterday when the heating was on.
I checked the pump unit out the back and sure enough it was humming away with the blades spinning, yet both heating and hot water were set to be off.
So my question is - does the pump keep pumping regardless of what heat the controls are set to output, or should the pump only kick in when the timer does? I checked the control panel in the garage and the pump wasn't in defrost mode, so I have no clue as to why it was running when the heating and hot water aren't set to come on until 5:30pm.
Anyone have any ideas? I really can't afford to pay 75 units of electricity a day before even switching on a single light.
