Central Heating - on yet?

[Drago]

I'm still wearing a welding mask to bed, it's that warm.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It so warm here I’ve just had to call the fire brigade.

 

[Drago]

It's so warm here my waterbed is on fire.

 

[Tenkaykev]

This is common here: often an older building gets an extra wall of something resembling polystyrene and then an outer hard skin. On certain listed buildings the cladding has to go on the inside which must take some getting used to.

Andy, I'm curious as to the cost of an ASHP in Germany. When I was working we had a department that did design / install of heating systems, and we had Aircon units installed in the Offices so I'm familiar with what's actually inside the units. They just seems extremely expensive for what they are. I know that with the Government giving a £5K that is going to be taken advantage of by installers / suppliers.
The other thing that I think is shortsighted is that it's straightforward and not expensive to "reverse " the units so they become Air con units when the weather gets hot, and with an increase in really hot periods looking more likely it seems like a sensible idea, but if you install a dual purpose unit you lose the £5k grant.

 

[OldShep]

Heating went on just over a week ago when it was dropping to 6C overnight.
This is my 13 th winter with an air to air ASHP and years of of trial and error I know it’s cheaper to leave it on full time. I read the meter every Monday morning and after the first full week I’d consumed 14 Kw more than previous weeks. That’s heating the whole house (22C in living room cooler elsewhere) with all doors open. Yes it will consume more as it gets colder and when it’s freezing outside I’ll need the wood stove too.
Cheap to install and easy to maintain I think newer versions perform even better. Doesn’t attract any government help but the systems they support are so expensive to install payback must be a long time. I think their problem is the obsession to heat water and move that around pipes and radiators.

 

[MrGrumpy]

Chucked the heating on yesterday for an hr , it was coolish . Wood burner has been on as well a couple of times since the weekend . Now quite mild again this morning , even for Scotland . So heating will not kick in .

I hear conflicting reports on ASHP, someone I meet walking the dog from time to time had one fitted earlier this year . They say it’s fine but it’s only two of them , no children . Get the feeling folk will settle for mid to high teens as a result with them .

Scandic countries have them fitted everywhere I believe but they also use log burners to supplement.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It's so warm here my waterbed is on fire.

It’s so hot here that I’m having to fart to create a breeze.

 

[Drago]

My neighbours have lit their wood burner today. Lightweights.

 

[gavroche]

I'm still in shorts and you lot are talking about boilers!

Same here. Shorts and T-shirt.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Just had to jump in an ice bath, it’s so damn hot 🥵

 

[Drago]

Ice is far too hot. I'm still bathing in liquid nitrogen,

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Pah, that’s like having the hot tap on. I’m now bathing in liquid neon.

 

[Drago]

It's so hot I've booked an easyjet flight to the oort cloud to cool off.

 

[mjr]

I hear conflicting reports on ASHP, someone I meet walking the dog from time to time had one fitted earlier this year . They say it’s fine but it’s only two of them , no children . Get the feeling folk will settle for mid to high teens as a result with them .

No reason to, unless they would have with fossil burning heating.

Scandic countries have them fitted everywhere I believe but they also use log burners to supplement.

Well, yes, we have a wood burner. It's been like maybe twice in two years since ASHP. It was used far more with the fossil heating. That's probably because the control system was upgraded from 1990s to 2020s at the same time, so there's a lot less chance of the house going cold and needing expensive boost heating.

Heating not on here yet but I wonder if it'll be this week.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Got a lot of heat to get rid of here