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PUMPED UP

Our air-source heat pump often seems like magic.

Last winter, temperatures here in Oxford fell to -10 degrees Celsius. But this unremarkable looking device, whirring quietly away on our outside back wall, was somehow extracting enough heat from the freezing air to comfortably heat our home. In the year since we installed the pump, our home energy use – and its carbon footprint

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