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wtf am I doing wrong
Trying to fit bleeding edge technology to shit old house? Probably a lot of faff like new rads, insulation, making an ASHP viable.
Apols if you house isn't shit and old 😹
Howard-
It’s pretty old (30’s) and pretty shit given the current heating situation. That doesn’t include any insulation to even make an ASHP viable. That’s all being done separately (loft, loft room, underfloor insulation), new windows (single glazed atm).
At that price it’s well out of our means so back to the drawing board for us.
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Love it when the UK British refer to heat pumps as ‘bleeding edge’ lol. We’re such knuckle dragging troglodytes when it comes to housing.
My Soviet nan’s dacha in a village on the outskirts of Kyiv has a generic Chinese ASHP which my uncle and I installed DIY around 20 years ago, bought off the shelf from the local equivalent of B&Q for well under £1K. Took a weekend to plumb it and the cylinder in. Still works now. Most houses in the village have ASHP, the ones that don’t just burn firewood from the forest next door.
Over here, the gas lobby have convinced everyone that heat pumps are some kind of exotic, fragile tech from the future which can only be handled by a crack team of cyborg heating engineers. The £7.5K grant has only exacerbated this by encouraging installer companies to spawn for the express purpose of harvesting the grant and bumping up prices for everyone.
andos
ectoplasmosis
2 quotes for ASHP installs both coming in at £25k - wtf am I doing wrong? 4 bed detached house with mixed oil/gas system. One quote mentioned 2 x Mitsubishi PUZ-WM85VAA- 8.5kW. I haven't got back to them yet as only just received them.
Seems about 15k more than I was expecting lol.