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Love it when the UK British refer to heat pumps as ‘bleeding edge’ lol.
Well, the underlying heat exchange tech is ancient, but don't the current generation have to be bleeding edge to meet packaging, noise (or lack of) and energy efficiency requirements whilst also working with shitty UK houses and legacy plumbing installations?
A lot of standard tech has been forced into the crappy bleeding edge zone where to meet new standards durability has been sacrificed - see modern gas boilers and ICEs, particularly diesel, for example.
Howard
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.