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Does anyone have experience choosing/installing/using a heat pump for both cooling and heating? The weather at our house gets just below freezing in winter and
by Myrmornis 4y ago
Does anyone have experience choosing/installing/using a heat pump for both cooling and heating? The weather at our house gets just below freezing in winter and very hot (38C/100F) in summer. Currently, heating is via wood burner, solar thermal, and random space heaters, and we don't yet have a cooling solution. House has thick stone walls and a tiled roof (southern Europe).
- Tade0 4y agoCheck out ground source heat pumps. A one sentence summary of them is that they use the thermal mass of the ground to provide you the annual average temperature.
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- elmolino89 4y agoWe have such a thing (some Mitsubishi model I will check later on if needed\) at home in Catalonia. Works OK, but the house despite being well isolated in general has a weak spot: dark external blinds. Without some external shading these warm up in no time, so the air between blinds and windows goes probably +45C or more. To combat this the heat pump in the air condition mode has to work way harder. So a bit like with a Victorian house in winter where isolation is the key: one has to start with making sure that the house interior gets as little heat from sun in the summer as possible.
- Myrmornis 4y agoThanks! Sure if you get a chance I'd be interested to know your model and when you got it. (We're in Portugal - Alentejo).