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This is why I can't wait for ashp. With (our old) wood boiler now when I wake up the boiler has gone out and it's coldz so I need to relight. If you put too much wood on it gets too hot. it's annoying.
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UK plumbing & heating, in both installer and consumer habit senses, is in the dark ages.
People are so conditioned to tolerating shit/old/both UK housing stock and poorly designed heating systems that they won’t bat an eyelid at having to step out of bed into a freezing room to fire up a massively overpowered blast furnace monstrosity of a gas boiler for an hour before leaving the house to freeze again until they return.
I went through 6 different plumbers doing the house up, most of whom were incredulous at the idea of a heat pump being installed, telling me I’ll be ripping it all out in a year and belling them up to bang a gas combi in. None had much of an idea of what a heat pump even did.
ectoplasmosis
Having never really experienced anything like this in my life, I still can't get over the comfort that a (partially) insulated house x heat pump x MVHR x underfloor heating brings.
The whole house is at 21deg the entire time, 24/7, air feels fresh & dry, and the last week where it's got a bit chilly outside it's cost under £1.50/day, including hot water & heating. Bathroom dries rapidly after a long shower, can sit in front of big window with zero chills, everywhere is warm underfoot, hot water doesn't run out even after several consecutive showers.
This is coming from a house which was previously damp, draughty and completely unheatable... even with the boiler on full-chat, house could never hit above 18deg on a mild day. Gas bill over £2K/year for a freezing house with only enough hot water for a single shower/bath at a time.
Previously living in shitty damp rented accommodation in the UK and a Soviet death block with communal furnace heating that was either off (with -10deg winter temps) or fully on (scalding radiators melting half your face off and a howling gale from the open windows freezing the other), my baby bitch brain just can't compute low-key ambient wellbeing like this. Keep expecting to feel an icy chill licking my feet every 5 mins...
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