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I'm in the UK, and got an air-to-air heat pump (more commonly known as air conditioning). It made sense because of extremely high electricity prices, and I have
by jonatron 4y ago
I'm in the UK, and got an air-to-air heat pump (more commonly known as air conditioning). It made sense because of extremely high electricity prices, and I have an insulated house without gas, electric only. There's a lot of houses / flats similar to mine, that could switch from resistive to heat pump heating. Unfortunately, the government are focusing on very expensive retrofitting of air-to-water heat pumps in older uninsulated houses, which doesn't make a lot of sense.
- jansan 4y agoI was not aware until recently that most air conditionings can produce heat really efficiently. For hot water, efficiency is quite low, so using a simple air conditioning for room heating combined with an electric boiler for shower water would achieve a lot at quite reasonable price.
- jonatron 4y agoIt's air to air, so it's for heating air only. I still use resistive heating for hot water.