Air to Air Vs Air to Water Heatpumps. Now closing the gap.

[Ivor Windybottom]

Have you got a relatively new and well insulated house?

Myth. It doesn't make any difference. You can run a heat pump or gas boiler, or any other heating system in a well-insulated or uninsulated house. It's irrelevant. Any heating system will be more efficient in a well-insulated house.

Ours is a 1950s bungalow. Reasonable loft insulation, blown-in wall insulation from about 30 years ago, old windows and an uninsulated concrete floor.

We're lovely and warm with our heat pump. If I spent £10,000s on replacing the floor and cladding the walls then I might save £200 a year in electricity, it would make absolutely no sense to do it unless I lived to the age of 1000.

 

[Peter.N.]

Its much cheaper to keep our 350 year old stone cottage warm with oil with oil. If you buy your oil at the right time of the year it costs 5-8P per Kwh, our electricity is 30P per Kwh!

 

[Highway Man]

Here is the air to air system breakdown costs, showing just how much a saving you can make, it is a larger system than mine so mine is super efficient to run and has convinced me to invest in a solar battery system to run my air con units.

 

[Dec27]

Myth. It doesn't make any difference. You can run a heat pump or gas boiler, or any other heating system in a well-insulated or uninsulated house. It's irrelevant. Any heating system will be more efficient in a well-insulated house.

Ours is a 1950s bungalow. Reasonable loft insulation, blown-in wall insulation from about 30 years ago, old windows and an uninsulated concrete floor.

We're lovely and warm with our heat pump. If I spent £10,000s on replacing the floor and cladding the walls then I might save £200 a year in electricity, it would make absolutely no sense to do it unless I lived to the age of 1000.

It’s not a myth as such. The heating source has to be able to supply enough kWh to heat the property.

And air source heat pumps are mainly less than 8kw.

 

[warey4life]

Myth. It doesn't make any difference. You can run a heat pump or gas boiler, or any other heating system in a well-insulated or uninsulated house. It's irrelevant. Any heating system will be more efficient in a well-insulated house.

Ours is a 1950s bungalow. Reasonable loft insulation, blown-in wall insulation from about 30 years ago, old windows and an uninsulated concrete floor.

We're lovely and warm with our heat pump. If I spent £10,000s on replacing the floor and cladding the walls then I might save £200 a year in electricity, it would make absolutely no sense to do it unless I lived to the age of 1000.

My house is 1880s with large rooms and high ceilings, it has double glazing but gets quite cold in the winter. We have a newish boiler and rads in every part of the house except for the kitchen where have underfloor heating. I think we'd struggle with a heat pump.