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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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    https://www.tradeskills4u.co.uk/courses/city-guilds-239901-foundation


    Because I was funded by the European Social Fund to do the PV installation and maintenance course I had to do the full set of courses to get the full certificate, including the foundation course. So I spent time being shown the other renewal energy systems as well as the PV systems and discussing the pros and cons of each, before taking the the exam and gaining the award.


    So having been trained to give advice on renewal energy systems including air source heat pumps, I would never advise anyone to retrofit a heat pump into an existing home without upgrading the wet system including pipework and radiators, as well as upgrading the insulation, doors and windows as required.


    Neither would I recommend installing a heat pump in a building such as a church which will be used intermittently without serious consideration of how the system will function.


    I would not consider installing one in my home and consider some of the advertising for air source heat pumps to be on the point of being fraudulent by suggesting that they can be a simple swap for a gas boiler.


    If you start the design of the heating system  with the thought that they are only capable of providing a low level of heat you will have a better chance of ending up when you want to be.


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    https://www.tradeskills4u.co.uk/courses/city-guilds-239901-foundation


    Because I was funded by the European Social Fund to do the PV installation and maintenance course I had to do the full set of courses to get the full certificate, including the foundation course. So I spent time being shown the other renewal energy systems as well as the PV systems and discussing the pros and cons of each, before taking the the exam and gaining the award.


    So having been trained to give advice on renewal energy systems including air source heat pumps, I would never advise anyone to retrofit a heat pump into an existing home without upgrading the wet system including pipework and radiators, as well as upgrading the insulation, doors and windows as required.


    Neither would I recommend installing a heat pump in a building such as a church which will be used intermittently without serious consideration of how the system will function.


    I would not consider installing one in my home and consider some of the advertising for air source heat pumps to be on the point of being fraudulent by suggesting that they can be a simple swap for a gas boiler.


    If you start the design of the heating system  with the thought that they are only capable of providing a low level of heat you will have a better chance of ending up when you want to be.


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