SteamyTea

I am so looking forward to seeing what happens. Can we have a Sweep Stake.

Whoops, missed a 1 at the beginning out. I hate typing on my phone.

Do you know your airtightness numbers?

Or 600 quid if on gas. They are letting us know tomorrow morning what the new rates are, and how they are going to subsidise the increases.

SCoP may be higher than 3, does depend on your climate and how hot you have the house.

That would be if you were heating purely with resistance heating. Divide by the sCop to get the electric cost.

Better to oversize. Do you have a SAP that shows the heat load, or run it through Jeremy Harris's spreadsheet.

That is the thermal energy needed to keep your house warm, it is irrespective of the technology.

That is to cover the 99th percentile. Almost any heating system will be designed to supply enough power, 99% of the time. That 1% us for extreme weather events i.e. -18⁰C or something. Most of the time a 6 kW unit would do your heatload quite happily. There is a bit added, 2 kW, for heating the hot water. So seems to be about the right size.

Roughly 100 kWh/m².year. Or assuming 5 months heating, 25W.m² power needed. Do you have any other heat loss calculations?

Sounds like something derogatory from Geordieland.

Me too, why I am in St.Ives.

If you had read some ASHP topics in here, you will have read about buffers, and the most economical way to run systems. But you haven't.

La Nina years can be more unpredictable, but there are climate models that show that an increase in overall temperatures will push extreme weather events further north and south. It is really a matter of where the air cools as to where the strong winds are centred from.

Almost the definition of a storm, rather than a gale (apart from windspeed). The isobars are very close together, so a rapid change in windspeed as pressures try to equalise. Quite common down here, why we don't have many trees or tall buildings.

After the 1987 storm that hit the SE of England, friend of mines brother went out with a chain saw to cut some logs up for firewood. At least there was no shortage of timber to make his coffin after a tree fell on him.

Like a statue in a university city.

It is what sets the power output for any given temperature.

Slave trading trog.

Did that to part heat my parents swimming pool. It worked reasonably well. That was nearly 40 years ago and what started to get me interested in the RE business.

They can pull electrical cables through some of the existing pipework. May be more cost effective.

As long as your calculations show that there is enough power delivered at the lower temperature, I can't see a problem.

Toronto is at the same latitude as Madrid.

Shall get my turtle neck sweater out.

Emptying the can I am told.