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Heat pump is a no, thank you. 10k for air source, noisy, ugly, big; 3x100m deep holes for ground source, don't even want to know the price. EDIT: for <5k I'd h
by pmlnr 6y ago
Heat pump is a no, thank you. 10k for air source, noisy, ugly, big; 3x100m deep holes for ground source, don't even want to know the price.
EDIT: for <5k I'd have the whole house on FIR panels and electric boiler, then I could spend another 5k on solar.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 6y agoHow do FIR panels compare to heat pumps in terms of energy efficiency? Are they really able to reach similar comfort levels at much lower temperatures as advertised?
- amluto 6y ago$9k buys a three zone ductless multi split heat pump, installed, in a area with very high labor costs. This heats and cools and can modulate to a reasonable degree. (This price is for a Fujitsu system — I don’t know the price for other vendors.) Maybe you can install a cheaper FIR system, but that system is actually just electric resistance heat. Sure, maybe you can operate in a regime where the mean radiant temperature where you are is enough higher than the actual air temperature to save some power, but that had better be a pretty big effect to overcome the 3-4x efficiency improvement of a heat pump. And did I mention that the heat pump can cool, too?