Cable Forum - View Single Post

**Chris** · 19-05-2021, 14:35

The heat pump fan is outdoors. It doesn’t even have to be right outside - it can go at the bottom of the garden. Once the heat is collected it is passed through a heat exchanger to either underfloor pipes or radiators in order to heat the room. It isn’t a fan heater system. Provided you install a radiator rather than an underfloor system your heat pump will also have a flow temperature in excess of 55c and will also provide hot water.

It also outputs around 2-3 kW of heat for every 1 kW of electricity it uses, while a modern gas boiler puts around 0.9 kW of heat into your home for every 1 kW of energy in the gas supply. Yes, electricity is more expensive than gas, but there’s no direct comparison between a gas boiler and a heat pump, such as you might expect to make between a gas boiler and an electrically heated radiator.

It sounds very much to me as if you’re objecting to something you actually don’t know anything about. These things really do work - I’m looking at one out of my window right now, and it’s been very happily heating my next door neighbour’s house all through the last season.

19-05-2021, 14:35	#39
Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,134	Re: Electric heating only? The heat pump fan is outdoors. It doesn’t even have to be right outside - it can go at the bottom of the garden. Once the heat is collected it is passed through a heat exchanger to either underfloor pipes or radiators in order to heat the room. It isn’t a fan heater system. Provided you install a radiator rather than an underfloor system your heat pump will also have a flow temperature in excess of 55c and will also provide hot water. It also outputs around 2-3 kW of heat for every 1 kW of electricity it uses, while a modern gas boiler puts around 0.9 kW of heat into your home for every 1 kW of energy in the gas supply. Yes, electricity is more expensive than gas, but there’s no direct comparison between a gas boiler and a heat pump, such as you might expect to make between a gas boiler and an electrically heated radiator. It sounds very much to me as if you’re objecting to something you actually don’t know anything about. These things really do work - I’m looking at one out of my window right now, and it’s been very happily heating my next door neighbour’s house all through the last season. Last edited by Chris; 19-05-2021 at 14:45.