£5k eh? What will you spend yours on. Wine, women or song?
A plumber who doesn't like heat pumps, who would've guessed?
Makes absolutely no argument against heat pumps except he thinks it isn't going to be any cleaner than a gas boiler.
If you have a heat pump with a lowly 2 C.O.P, then you put 1kW in and get 2kW out. The initial 1kW is 25% renewable, 21% nuclear, and the rest is imported or fossil fuels. I put 1kW of gas into my boiler, that is what I get out (minus efficiency losses of course) - which is 100% fossil fuel.
As for the cost side of things, I haven't looked into that and he mentions it - but doesn't address it at all (perhaps he can't because it's cheaper and that invalidates his argument ??) I will definitely be considering getting a heat pump, especially with rising costs of gas.
A plumber who doesn't like heat pumps, who would've guessed?
Makes absolutely no argument against heat pumps except he thinks it isn't going to be any cleaner than a gas boiler.
If you have a heat pump with a lowly 2 C.O.P, then you put 1kW in and get 2kW out. The initial 1kW is 25% renewable, 21% nuclear, and the rest is imported or fossil fuels. I put 1kW of gas into my boiler, that is what I get out (minus efficiency losses of course) - which is 100% fossil fuel.
As for the cost side of things, I haven't looked into that and he mentions it - but doesn't address it at all (perhaps he can't because it's cheaper and that invalidates his argument ??) I will definitely be considering getting a heat pump, especially with rising costs of gas.