Jamie in Chile
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Thanks for sharing your advice
Thanks the house has cavity wall insulation and I have added loft insulation prior to the potential heat pump installation. I also had someone check for drafts and they told me maybe need some new seals on the windows, but I am going to look at that after the heat pump is installed.
After checking many, many suppliers I have only found one installer that met these criteria
1 good reviews on a site that looks trustworthy (have to be careful with sites where the companies make their money from the companies being reviewed)
2 nearer 8k pounds so 3k after grant (others were 10k+)
3 responded to my messages and seemed professional
Therefore I want to go ahead with this company but have no backup plan if it falls through
Not doing solar for now in this house we rent out (although do have it in my own house) but may or may not look at that at a later time. I´m not convinced on the solar-heat pump match up for heating though. Looks like October-March you typically won´t have any spare electricity from a solar system anyway in the UK. Perhaps September and April there is some match to be had, but even then we would need extra batteries to transfer the solar heat to the evening (depends if the house is well insulated enough that you can mainly heat it until 4pm and then turn off the heating and it´s still hot at 10pm, probably not in our case I suspect). But perhaps you mean more for hot water. I suspect the basic logic of it is that you can use your solar for hot water year round, and heating requires grid.
Thanks for the tip on weather compensation.
I don´t think I have any more questions for now, but perhaps if it goes ahead maybe later.
Thanks the house has cavity wall insulation and I have added loft insulation prior to the potential heat pump installation. I also had someone check for drafts and they told me maybe need some new seals on the windows, but I am going to look at that after the heat pump is installed.
After checking many, many suppliers I have only found one installer that met these criteria
1 good reviews on a site that looks trustworthy (have to be careful with sites where the companies make their money from the companies being reviewed)
2 nearer 8k pounds so 3k after grant (others were 10k+)
3 responded to my messages and seemed professional
Therefore I want to go ahead with this company but have no backup plan if it falls through
Not doing solar for now in this house we rent out (although do have it in my own house) but may or may not look at that at a later time. I´m not convinced on the solar-heat pump match up for heating though. Looks like October-March you typically won´t have any spare electricity from a solar system anyway in the UK. Perhaps September and April there is some match to be had, but even then we would need extra batteries to transfer the solar heat to the evening (depends if the house is well insulated enough that you can mainly heat it until 4pm and then turn off the heating and it´s still hot at 10pm, probably not in our case I suspect). But perhaps you mean more for hot water. I suspect the basic logic of it is that you can use your solar for hot water year round, and heating requires grid.
Thanks for the tip on weather compensation.
I don´t think I have any more questions for now, but perhaps if it goes ahead maybe later.