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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
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.