ASHP - our architect negative about them

[Mike]

7 hours ago, Wadrian said:

He says customer feedback has been that ASHP have been noisy and struggling with getting to heat rads in colder days

Ask him why he thinks that ASHPs make up over >90% of heat pump installations in Norway.

 

https://openresearch.surrey.ac.uk/esploro/outputs/journalArticle/Current-status-of-heat-pumps-in/99822136002346

[G and J]

Methinks that one benefits from taking multiple inputs and comparing and contrasting.  Perhaps trying in some cases to look behind the statements.   As a society we aren’t always as kind to peeps who say “I don’t know” or “I’m not sure” as we could be so perhaps we discourage honesty. 
 

I think our SE is brilliant.  When meeting him prior to engaging him he set out his stall and was fully open about the fact that he had very limited experience in achieving airtightness.  I’m a nerd that reads and overthinks way too much so I didn’t need him to bring that to the party. But his openness has helped us work together very well. 
 

I can easily imagine architects reading in their periodicals about disgruntled clients where newish stuff hadn’t worked so well which then encourages them to steer peeps towards the tried and tested and low moan options. 
 

I was initially put off by very poorly designed heat pumps in social housing in our area.  
 

Hopefully your architect has got lots of other things dead right. 

[SteamyTea]

If someone changes a 'practice', i.e. drive a manual car after decades of automatics, then some retraining is needed.

It is the same with heating systems.

I went from gas and radiators, in an old Victorian house, to storage heaters in a more modern TF house.

First winter I had an over hot home, and large bills. Some tweaks and now I have a stable 20°C home and small bills.

Just takes some real research (look that the science, not the brochure) and it will all make sense.

 

Also.

Temperature is not energy.

Edited June 14 by SteamyTea