Mastodawn

#ClimateDiary We are in intense #Heatpump vs new boiler discussions in our household at the moment, and it is quite something how geopolitics and radiators (and other practicalities like: will the humming be loud?) all swirl through my head at once.

(Our house is old, terraced and high ceilings - it looks like it’s not impossible but challenging. Costs come into it too, of course. Also worried on this front: might geopolitics mean i will not earn any money next few years?)

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Adam Greenfield Mar 16

@pvonhellermannn Something people should know before installing an ASHP is that your shower/bath water just won’t be as piping hot anymore. First-world problem, maybe, but a dealbreaker for some.

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Jennifer Moore 😷Mar 16

@adamgreenfield

Can you not also have a hot tank with an immersion heater for the last little bit of heat-boosting? Or does that kind of system intrinsically not have a tank?

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Adam Greenfield

@unchartedworlds @pvonhellermannn I can’t see why you couldn’t *add* that, but it wasn’t in the specs we were presented. It might change the calculus for some.