Just had a beer with a mate who bought a new house in Poland 2 years ago. All houses on the development have heat pumps. All run at scops of over 4 with design temps of below -10. No one talks about any A2W problems. They just get it right. Why can’t we?
How far can you install a heat pump from a house? As far as you want - this one is 20 meters away from the plant room (15 away from the house) and still has more than enough flow. Proper design and calculations is the key.
My system is now fine tuned:
- 8 hours run times
- 20c inside
- 28c flow temp with / 5c outside
- heating cop of 5.5
- 460 watts average electrical consumption
Very impressed with the Arotherm so far. (Still want Viessmann)
Started insulating my already insulated cavity walls with extra 25mm PIR. The walls show 4c difference temp between insulated cavity and walls with extra 25mm PIR.
I got in touch with the homeowner a year later to see how much money my work saved him. The results are: 18,000 kWh of gas saved compared to previous year. That’s is £1,500 a year saving on his gas bills
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heat pump install from a year ago being serviced today. 10kw heat loss property. Total running cost around £1,500 for the last 12 months.
Urban Plumbers is hiring heating engineers. If you are interested and cover GU post codes send your CV to info
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.co.uk or come and talk to us at Installer next week.
I installed this
@_heatgeek
assured heat pump last week. Kept old single rads in place as UFH going in soon. 70ties build house. It has been running at 0.6 curve, -1 outside, 41c flow and it’s 21c inside. Imagine how well it will perform with UFH!
Cascades are soo good - 16c outside and it still runs steady state as by having only 1 unit running it has much better modulation as compared to a single unit.
0c outside and my GLOWORM hacked to work with vaillant weather comp nicely keeps the house at 20c with 47c flow. Can’t get much better efficiency on gas that’s this
@JeremyWarnerUK
Electric boilers are the way to go? You clearly have no understanding of heat pumps and heating at all. Please, do your research, as any self-respecting journalist does, before writing about a topic you know little about.
@RichMWPHS
@OctopusEnergy
Couldn’t agree more
@RichMWPHS
! We need more expensive and better quality installations with proper financing. This stuff is and will be expensive to install. Anyone who thinks they can lower the cost of heat pump installations simply doesn’t understand the market or the tech.
@heatpolicyrich
CHMM is a really weird policy, reminds me of planned economy from a soviet era. I do like heat pumps a lot by the way and want to see the end of gas, just not quite ready to go full commie mode to get there yet.