#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?)
@pvonhellermannn I’m in the US, so this may not be relevant as I don’t know the differences between how they’re done there. Here, we get temperatures above 115f regularly, and freezes a few times, so it had to be more robust on the cooling than the heating. There’s a unit about the size of a fridge in my attic, and an outdoor unit. The attic I never hear, the outdoor I hear occasionally when it’s kicking on or off and decompressing or whatever magic it’s doing.
Big, old, drafty house with high ceilings. Dropped our winter bills by 50%, and about 30% on summer. (Last summer was brutal.)
Pauline von Hellermann
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