Is this normal? Should this work?

[Garald]

We finally got a quote for a heatpump and its installation. (Recap: we bought from the coop an outhouse adjacent to (in fact ensconced in) our new place, so as to install a heatpump there instead of potentially bothering the neighbors by instalming it in thme courtyard. We were talking to a vendor/installer that was offeeing an indoor heatpump (AMZAIR) - and then got ghosted, apparently. Then the architect talked to people at a building fair, and one of them was willing to install an outdoors heatpump inside the outhouse (which we can now resize however we want - the walls have been removed). The quote below is his.)

 

Issue: installing the heat-pump (incl. providing various accoutrements) will cost almost as much as the heat-pump itself!

 

Is this normal? Are there things we don't need? We should get a reduction on 1.23, since we have already removed and disposed off the old gas heater.

 

Is anything else unusual?

Edited November 29, 2022 by Garald

[Garald]

[Garald]

(Opinions on whether it is feasible to install an outdoor heatpump indoors (in front of a door that will soon become an ex-door, with sound insulation to the extent needed), on whether it's a good idea to combine a Hitachi heatpump and a Panasonic Aquarea PIV system (I guess so? Why would they not be friends?), etc., are also welcome.)

[Garald]

PS. My architect just told me that she managed to make the installer lop 3000eur off the price. Will the price be normal then?

[Russdl]

@Garald sorry I can’t offer any opinion on the internal installation of an external heat pump but regarding the price, if they’ve lopped €3000 off the price without too much effort then they were clearly coming in at a mad high price and there may be some more discount available bringing the price down to a less eye watering one.