Midea About Midea You may recognise Midea as being the official partner of Manchester City’s Football club. Still, to give you more content about Midea, Midea specialises in air treatment, refrigeration and many more home appliance products. In fact, Midea is one of the world’s largest home appliance brands, offering the most comprehensive selection of […]
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Technical Support goes way beyond just a team here at Freedom Heat Pumps. Technical support is a core part of Freedom Heat Pumps foundations; It’s what we believe has made us the fantastic heat pump-centred business we are today. Freedom Heat Pumps is not just a heat pump supplier. Freedom Heat Pumps is here to […]
Account managers are such a big part of what makes Freedom Heat Pumps unique, but it isn’t really something we talk about that often (shame on us 😊). In a world trying to find ways to automate and digitise as much as possible, sometimes it can be nice to know that there is a human […]
The UK government implemented the boiler upgrade scheme (BUS) to help support the decarbonisation of heating in buildings by helping people replace their boilers with an eco-friendly solution such as air source heat pumps. The BUS provides grants to support the installation of heat pumps in homes across England and Wales. As of Monday, […]
So, why is MCS accreditation important? Perhaps we could look at this from a slightly broader viewpoint and ask why any accreditation is important. Does accreditation guarantee that a heat pump will better than a heat pump which hasn’t been submitted for approval? No. In the same way that a sprinter who their race may […]
Refrigerant type 15 years ago, when Freedom Heat Pumps was first founded, most air source heat pumps in the UK market, used R410A or R407C refrigerant. R407C as a refrigerant was good at temperatures up to around 65°C but hasn’t been seen in the mainstream for a good few years. For many years, R410A was […]
Electrical loading in the context of a heat pump, is referred to as the fuse / breaker size that needs to be in place to ensure safe operation of the heat pump. Most heat pumps are split in to 3 breaker sizes: 16amp, 20amp and 32amp, with the breaker size determining the kW output / […]
The heat pump must be sized accurately for the unit to work effectively within a property. A heat loss calculation must be completed to industry standards to size a heat pump correctly. Freedom Heat Pump Heat loss calculator has been produced in line with industry standards BS EN12831 & MCS MIS3005. A heat loss calculation […]
We are all familiar with open loop system when fitting ground source heat pumps, in fact it has been suggested to be the most efficient option when fitting a ground source heat pumps. We will be discussing if Open loop systems would be possible on Air Source Heat Pumps and will this be the future […]
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