Going Green isn’t easy

[IanB1485]

Gas boilers may not be phased out , they are starting to introduce hydrogen into the gas line in certain locations and modern boilers can be programmed to burn hydrogen and it can be produced carbon neutral, thats my hope.

 

[Buckman]

This a claim you have made previously, and you have drawn improper conclusions about why your heating is inadequate and blamed the system as not being "efficient" when that is probably not the case.

There is a growing body of irrefutable evidence that Heat Pumps can work, and when set up correctly they are also very effective and do reduce operating costs.

If your heating system cannot effectively provide the heat you want there must be some reason why it's not providing you with what you expect:-

• The system designer may have misunderstood what you expected your system to do.
• The system designer may not have understood the environmental conditions of your location.
• The system designer may have got the calculations wrong.
• The system designer has not specified the correct components.
• Environmental conditions may have deteriorated since the system was specified
• If you set a budget cap for the project, it might have precluded the use of correctly sized system components.
• The contractor may have not followed the specific design correctly.
• The contractor may have not been able to obtain or fit the optimum components.
• The contractor may have incorrectly installed some parts of the system compromising the overall performance.
• Some parts of the systems may be defective. or have worn possibly through improper use.
• Perhaps you do not understand how to use the system for its best performance.

I am very surprised that you state there is "a growing body of irrefutable evidence that Heat Pumps can work" when clearly they do not even when they are set up to the correct parameters. A vented or condenser tumble dryer takes 90 minutes to properly dry clothes. A heat pump dryer takes double the amount of time so does it really use less electric?

If we had our heat pump set to 20C it would be running all day to keep the temperature at 20C and it would have to work harder on really cold days. On really cold days it resembles a block of ice and goes into defrost mode. When running in defrost modem the heating in the home shuts down same as when the hot water is being heated up. When the defrost has finished, the home is a lot cooler and again the machine has to work twice as hard to bring the temperature back up again.

How is that efficient as that applies to all heat pumps? In the meantime your electric bill is rocketing. We are looking at an electric bill that is going to be north of £300 for this month! Remember that we only have the temperature at 20C between 6-9am and 4-10pm. The rest of the time it is at 17C. In summer our electric bill averages at about £100 per month.