Octopus Energy Daikin Heat Pump Installation - Day 2
The day has finally come for our Daikin Altherma 4kW (EDLA04E2V3) heat pump to be installed. The whole process has been managed by Octopus Energy. You can follow the journey so far (My heat pump journey with Octopus Energy - Part 1, My heat pump journey with Octopus Energy - Part 2 - Planning Permission)
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The plan for day two is, drain down the old system and install the new tank. Hot water will be provided by the new tank via the immersion. The Octopus engineers have put down complete floor coverings. Below is the cupboard before the new tank was installed.
Previous tank and pipework
We hit one issue today. If you look at the picture above you will see a red isolator switch. This is for the solar and it couldn’t be moved. This meant one of the tanks will need to go in the loft. This is not an issue, just a change of plan. You will see more about this later in the week. You can see below where the pipes and the electrical have been run to the loft.
The tank has a temporary immersion running from a main socket so that we have hot water tonight.
Scaffold tower to reach the loft
Pipes and electrical being run into the loft
Close up of the pipes and electrical running into the loft
New tank with some of the new pipework completed
Old gas boiler
Gas boiler removed. Still some work to be done
