Heat Pumps and Solar

[motorbiking]

Jeez - I think everyone knows that

you can still hear the fan on the wall in the house blowing air, might be OK in an Office or workshop - but in your house ?

I have an LG set up and it's fairly quiet, it's like having a fan heater on.

 

[Londoner2]

Milliband has just announce an eye watering expensive scheme to get heat pumps and solar into our homes to combat fuel poverty -

I have 20 panels on our roof and think they are excellent, but to power heat pumps they will be fairly useless, at the time of year we need to heat our houses, in Dec and Jan, you will need to buy electric at cost to run these heat pumps, and even though the heat pumps ae 300% efficient, electric atfull price is about 4x the cost of gas

in a full year my solar panels produce just over 8000 kwh , but n the 8 weeks that surround the shortest day, it only produced 280kwh

so to sum up - should be quite cheap to heat our homes in the summer.

Spend 20k on batteries n your bills will come down

 

[Londoner2]

I've got a Stelrad Ideal Mexico. It was here when I moved in and I'm assuming is original to the house, built in the 80s.

Servicing engineer said to me 'It's got about four moving parts. As long as parts are available, I'd keep it. Simple to service and repair. Built to last.'

Funnily enough years back a British Gas engineer tried to tell me parts were no longer available. Was obviously on commission for pushing new boiler installs. The next year, another British Gas engineer told me 'nah. you can get the parts no bother.'

These days I use a local trusted company to service it.

Simple to repair n service yes, uses gas n is not efficient yes.

 

[Munroast]

Spend 20k on batteries n your bills will come down

even if I got 20k worth of batteries free it would make little difference

the times when we really need heat, like now, cold cloudy and windy all day, probably generate less than a 1 kwh per day.

charging batteries from the grid makes little sense either, last nights agile prices were about 13p ( equiv 17p with losses) this evening its about 20p. So i would be saving 3p a kwh

even if air source could heat my house (which i doubt) the electric costs would be eye waterin

Solar and heat pumps don't work because when you need the heat the sun don't shine

 

[motorbiking]

They make more sense for new builds with fat walls and tiny windows.

 

[Munroast]

They make more sense for new builds with fat walls and tiny windows.

I would love a super insulated (passive) house that barely needed heating - air source (or better ground source) would work well. But on cold windy winters days here in Scotland i doubt it would work well. a neighbour got quoted 25k few years back for full air source - he got a new gas boiler instead

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Simple to repair n service yes, uses gas n is not efficient yes.

Couldn't care less. My combined gas elec bill is now £110 per month. That'll do me.