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Air Sourced Heat Pump.

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A person today that I was talking to, that has had a new build home which was required by building regs. to have an air sourced heat pump for heating and hot water, complained that the system was slow to heat or cool as required. He said that he had to have underfloor heating installed. It was slow to warm the rooms on cold days. He recently had the system set to cool the rooms on the very hot recent days. But this morning was cooler and he required heating. Is this normal?


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    I was listening to a discussion about air source heat pumps on the fix radio plumbing show and the speaker said that on the training course there was a lot of time wasted explaining how they work, but there was very little detail about the requirements for the wet heating system design, he went on to say that you don't really need to know how the air source heat pumps works and the focus of the training course was wrong.


    Basically gas boilers, oil boilers, electric boilers and heat source pumps are just boxes with a flow and return pipe that connect to a wet heating system and all you really need to know is the volume, flow rate and temperature of the hot water available from the box, so that you can design the wet heating system accordingly, generally how the box works is irrelevant.


    You don't need to know how electricity is generated to carry out electrical installation work, just the nature and capacity of the supply.
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    I was listening to a discussion about air source heat pumps on the fix radio plumbing show and the speaker said that on the training course there was a lot of time wasted explaining how they work, but there was very little detail about the requirements for the wet heating system design, he went on to say that you don't really need to know how the air source heat pumps works and the focus of the training course was wrong.


    Basically gas boilers, oil boilers, electric boilers and heat source pumps are just boxes with a flow and return pipe that connect to a wet heating system and all you really need to know is the volume, flow rate and temperature of the hot water available from the box, so that you can design the wet heating system accordingly, generally how the box works is irrelevant.


    You don't need to know how electricity is generated to carry out electrical installation work, just the nature and capacity of the supply.
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