ASHP & triple glazing

[Joeboy]

COP of 2.4 for my last 24hrs including a water heating cycle at a COP of 1.5 at -4C.

I set the heatcurve to 0.6 in late afternoon. Has made a significant difference in room temperature.

.... and cop

Not really, which surprised me. Maybe it'll show up.by tomorrow? I've also raised the dhw to 60 degrees. No point spending all that money and effort to stinge on the resultant gains?

[Andy]

Wow, we're running at 48ºC flow right now. That's impressive stuff from your house. A bloody rat chewed a hole into the kitchen so I need to block that tomorrow. The floor is like an ice block with the cold air flowing in. It's making a big difference to the figures. Of course the hole is at the back corner of a corner kitchen cabinet that I can't remove because I routed the pipe work through it. I'll have to cut a hole in it to gain access.

What I do with the dhw is have it to 60 before everyone gets up and before main washes in the evening. Then I set it back to lower temperatures outside of those times. The tank is in the garage (15C) and the tank can lose a lot of temperature from last evening washes to the morning.

[Joeboy]

Sorry to hear about the rat. Nae guid. Looks like 3 degs tomorrow so that'll be great. I am still finding my way with the system. Pretty much going on if swmbo is happy it's a win.

[Fintray]

COP of 2.4 for my last 24hrs including a water heating cycle at a COP of 1.5 at -4C.

I set the heatcurve to 0.6 in late afternoon. Has made a significant difference in room temperature.

.... and cop

I bet it has for both!

Our flow has been averaging 37C at a heat curve of 0.4 at -3C.

[resybaby]

A bloody rat chewed a hole into the kitchen so I need to block that tomorrow. The floor is like an ice block with the cold air flowing in. It's making a big difference to the figures. Of course the hole is at the back corner of a corner kitchen cabinet that I can't remove because I routed the pipe work through it. I'll have to cut a hole in it to gain access..

Neighbour keeps ducks (in a housing estate, am not rural) so we have a few of the furry buggers around at times eating on the ducks leftovers, not ideal but no real choice as ive seen the buggers eyeing up the family tortoise more than once, so have used these with good results. Be worth baiting up a few places local to the hole maybe to avoid being overrun.

[Stinsy]

A bloody rat chewed a hole into the kitchen so I need to block that tomorrow. The floor is like an ice block with the cold air flowing in. It's making a big difference to the figures. Of course the hole is at the back corner of a corner kitchen cabinet that I can't remove because I routed the pipe work through it. I'll have to cut a hole in it to gain access..

Neighbour keeps ducks (in a housing estate, am not rural) so we have a few of the furry buggers around at times eating on the ducks leftovers, not ideal but no real choice as ive seen the buggers eyeing up the family tortoise more than once, so have used these with good results. Be worth baiting up a few places local to the hole maybe to avoid being overrun.

I've used something similar from Screwfix:

https://www.screwfix.com/p/pest-stop-ro ... pack/7894x

Tenants used to store dog food in a garden shed. Rats built a nest under the decking and multiplied! It is important to screw the blocks down so the rats actually eat them, otherwise they just take them away and store them...

[Andy]

Thanks, I had ordered something similar so hopefully they will get zapped by them. Good to know they are working for yourselves. I've decided to close the hole up once they have taken down the bait. I've got some wire wool and expanding foam ready

[Ronski]

They'll make light work of wire wool and expanding foam, rats love chewing cables as it wears down their constantly growing teeth.

We've had to repair wiring in customers trucks on multiple occasions, they make a right mess of it.

[Andy]

They'll make light work of wire wool and expanding foam, rats love chewing cables as it wears down their constantly growing teeth.

We've had to repair wiring in customers trucks on multiple occasions, they make a right mess of it.

Oh dear ok, thanks. Looks like I found a hole coming up under the floor as well. Unfortunately bridging either side of a large food storage cupboard. I hate them.

[Moxi]

As its in the house and assuming you dont have other pets its worth trying the plug in high frequency noise emitters, keeping chickens means I also keep rats, from experience they become familiar with poison baits so if its a regular thing - rotate your poisons so that they do not recognise them, blocking up holes is ok but expect a hole adjacent to the one you blocked up within two nights unless you managed to kill the rats. look for the entrance hole as well as blocking the exit hole as its seldom just the one visitor. Rat traps carefully bated with grain, butter, lard, biscuit etc and located away from pets/ children are effective / try to position them so that the rat has to approach from the front only. Outside look for droppings and well trodden runs along walls and behind vegetation bins etc often part way along these runs there will be more tunnels to cover open ground. Consider mole traps in tunnels if you have then and find the tunnels, otherwise the FEN mk4 positioned in a shallow scrape across a run and baited, and suitable covered to prevent pets and other species by catch, is a good strategy.

sadly? rats are almost as clever as we are - more so in some cases - and all the above traps and baits only manage the population, when I want to be rid of them (for a short while) my only tried and tested fool proof solution for the chicken run is to sit in the dark with the infra red scope and rifle and take them one by one with clean head shots. Rats new to an area will actually feed in the day or under lights and so if you have access to an air rifle that is sub 12ftlb and you feel competent then outside at the entrance is the place to wait and secure your foe. Inside in the kitchen with the kick board removed and some tasty treats laid out you should achieve the same results using one of those traps that electrocutes the rat ? I would not suggest using a pellet gun in the kitchen unless you are very aware and a proficient shooter.

I have been out for the last two nights to bag two rats from the chicken run, my baits and traps have had another and based on the signs around the garden I have perhaps 4 to 6 further customers to attend to - however last nights rat was a large female so I am hoping that I have dealt a significant blow to the population - being a colder winter this year I have been hearing that quite a few of the cottages and houses around here have had rats foraging so its always worth keeping an eye out for signs when you are all out in the gardens as the local rat is never too far away.

I know we all like pictures but on this occasion I have passed so as not to offend anyone.

Moxi