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Post by hifinutt on Oct 19, 2021 15:45:00 GMT
Well looking forward to the future , no more nice warm house with a nice boiler  the future is a noisy , bulky machine which needs your house to be super insulated [ heaven help you if you live in an ancient cottage ] maybe some of you are more positive  its a nightmare to me the future  heatpump by , on Flickr |
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Post by stryder5 on Oct 19, 2021 15:51:41 GMT
Has Bill Gates gone into the thermal underwear market?
Gary
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2021 16:49:54 GMT
I have been using a heat pump for the last 7 years. If the house is cold, then you have the wrong one fitted..
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Post by hifinutt on Oct 19, 2021 22:09:50 GMT
That's interesting cagey .You like yours then ?
I presume it helps being in Toulouse!! Might be different in darkest Scotland on a winter's day
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Post by electronumpty on Oct 19, 2021 22:27:44 GMT
They are used a lot Norway and other scandy countries. Can't be that useless.
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Post by antonio on Oct 20, 2021 2:30:20 GMT
I thought they were air conditioning units, just what's needed over here, although I never use ours, expensive to run and not good health wise.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2021 4:32:17 GMT
That's interesting cagey .You like yours then ? I presume it helps being in Toulouse!! Might be different in darkest Scotland on a winter's day As we are not connected to a mains gas supply, options were limited. Mine is an air source heat pump, that runs our underfloor heating. No complaints here about the performance. Obviously it depends on your location, but they are getting better. Some places may be better off having a ground source heat pump, but for this you either need a lot of land, or to drill a well. I think my installation will work down to -15 degrees C (it could be -25, but I can’t remember the model number). Compared to the gas boiler that was installed before, this certainly costs much less to run. |
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Post by hifinutt on Oct 20, 2021 21:36:40 GMT
Thanks . I have replaced 3 gas boilers this year , some because of all this talk of banning them . Altogether spent 13.5k on this including new rads and various other things . Heat pumps could be very expensive option so hope I can stick with gas for a bit longer
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Post by hifinutt on Oct 20, 2021 21:39:39 GMT
Another problem is we have been busy taking out immersion heaters and now face the prospect of finding room for them in heat pump installations . Houses in UK are getting smaller and smaller so making it harder to accommodate. Some modern 2 bed houses are very very small with very little storage space
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2021 4:34:06 GMT
Yes, that would be a problem.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2021 6:23:41 GMT
My heat pump is a Panasonic Aquarea and has an integrated hot water tank. It is a 12kW unit and has a 185 litre water tank. Far too big for a 2 bed house. It is about the same size as a large fridge freezer (1340 x 900 x 320mm).
For my house, it is ideally suited.
A heat pump is not capable of instantaneous water heating, so I guess space in a cupboard needs to be sacrificed and the plumbing altered. I bet the pkumbers are rubbing their hands together.
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Post by hifinutt on Oct 21, 2021 18:53:13 GMT
yes its a multi million pound industry i guess , at the moment the craze is for insulated conservatory roofs . google has thousands of sites offereing to replace your conservatory roof
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