hi folks am truly at the hair pulling stage and need to finalise my heating design with the next few days. i had decided on a vertical bore ground source heat pump with underfloor heating. from following threads here and eleswhere i am seriously questioning my choice.
i have a ber spec compiled along with heat demand etc.
House details 150mm cavity bead filled.
all external walls are drylined with kingspan 38mm boards
i have also installed triple glazed windows, composite U-value of 1.1
house is air tight also and MTD HRV unit installed
so what to install, my good wife wants underfloor through out, however we could put radiators upstairs.
two options
1. condensing oil boiler + solar panels
or
2. geothermal heat pump, air to water or ground source
i am not interested in wood pellet etc, too much labour involved and i dont have the space
my big problem is the cost of geothermal, and if i will ever recover the initial outlay.. second problem is i dont go geothermal whats the best option to work with underfloor heating...
thanks in anticipation
Interesting post... on side note be careful with freezer and underfloor heating.. do not run heating under freezer unit ... know someone that did and had major issue
Hi,
We have a 2,500 sq ft timber frame house with under floor heating on both floors running with Condensing oil boiler. The total cost for our oil bill last year was 750euro. We also have solar panels for domestic hot water which I think are just brilliant - last year I would have only boosted the hotwater about 12 times in total. Its built to a reasonable level and its south facing. We were considering Using Geo but the inital outlay put us off and I am glad now that we went with oil.
hi house speced to A3, heating demand 54Kh/M2/per annum
i have heard some horror sttories on the cost of heating a house on oil with under floor heating. should i be safe and put in radiators? we prefer the underfloor option as it future proofs if GT pumps get better
can anybody comment on their experience of installing a geothermal system, cost of esb bills etc? Does anybody have an approx cost difference in installation between geothermal and oil ufh. Also at what point in your build do you need to commit to this decision?
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