ASHP - Thoughts please

[solarsavings]

Heat pumps will work down to 7c and give a cop of around 2-2.5 @7c any lower and you will be relying on the immersion heater back up and end up spending big bucks to stay cold.

Oil cost at the moment are around 6pkwh, natural gas 4pkwh, lpg 7pkwh and electric 13pkwh so electrical heating via ashp at 7c with a cop of 2.5 is going to cost more than ng but less than oil or lpg. At around 15c the cop will be in the high 3s for most ashp and so the savings are higher with running costs similar to ng with a condensing boiler.

Given that for most of the winter temperatures don't go below 7c ( in this part of the world) they should make sense if you combine them with the ability to switch between either oil or lpg but you're not allowed to do that and comply with mcs requirements

 

[dansk]

facing some stiff tides towards this one, im going on an introductory course to findout more about this tech, i agree its not cheaper to run than Ng, in my mind i was aimimg for the off Gas people really, or the new build market, ive already got my customers due to the UFH market i work in. im going to follow this one and then make my mind up.

ive taken on board everything said here, and apprciate the honesty, thanks.

 

[Noshocks]

Dansk, I like you had been looking into ASHP both in the past and more recently, every time i go through the pro's and con's then ASHP dont quite quite seem to stack up, I have spoken to the guy at Huskey several times as well, he phoned me the other day out of the blue to see if I had decided to move forward with it after last speaking to them a year ago. I cant help feeling that customers are going to come to the same conclusion as me, which is going to make it a hard sell if I am not convinced myself.

 

[dansk]

its a shame TBH, seems to me its a very tiny market and most likley not worth the expense of getting MCS and everything else needed. I am going to keep looking before i decide fully.

 

[solarsavings]

We've been contacted by a couple of high pressure sales companies wanting us to install for them. One of them claims to sell at least ten systems a week at 13 grand a pop for daikin nordics with hydroblock. You need f-gas qualification for split systems as well as a decent plumber.