Discussion
While I look for solutions to the problems with my ground source heating ( I won't bore you with the detail but basically the builder didnt install all the undewrfloor pipes or enough slinkies), I have been looking at potential compromise options to supplment the system rather than digging all my floors out try to make it work properly.
Anybody got any experience and cost of a system to heat the cold bits of my house (about 1500 sq feet).
Anybody got any experience and cost of a system to heat the cold bits of my house (about 1500 sq feet).
Thanks for the tips.
As it stands the builder will be picking up the whole tab and refunding me 5 years of excessive electricty costs. They had already agreed to replace the slinkies (again) with boreholes and replumb the GSHP which the independent engineer said might be caussing some flow issues. They may also need to incrsae the rad size upstairs. Howrever, the engineer did a thermal imaging study of the colder rooms (unable to get 18 degrees in the winter) on the ground floor and it turned out they had not fully installed the wet UFH pipes. Full resolution is all the floors come up through the ground floor (taking up my tiled/wooden floors including a new £9k bathroom of approx 150 sq meters) and install the pipes. That wont be cheap and will be very disruptive and they still have the cost of new bore holes and replumbing in the hope it sorts the problems.
I think I am in a good position to simply ask that they install a top end free standing bio mass system with rads for the ground floor and divert the heat saved from the ground floor to the rest of the house. But I am not sure if that is technically possible.
As it stands the builder will be picking up the whole tab and refunding me 5 years of excessive electricty costs. They had already agreed to replace the slinkies (again) with boreholes and replumb the GSHP which the independent engineer said might be caussing some flow issues. They may also need to incrsae the rad size upstairs. Howrever, the engineer did a thermal imaging study of the colder rooms (unable to get 18 degrees in the winter) on the ground floor and it turned out they had not fully installed the wet UFH pipes. Full resolution is all the floors come up through the ground floor (taking up my tiled/wooden floors including a new £9k bathroom of approx 150 sq meters) and install the pipes. That wont be cheap and will be very disruptive and they still have the cost of new bore holes and replumbing in the hope it sorts the problems.
I think I am in a good position to simply ask that they install a top end free standing bio mass system with rads for the ground floor and divert the heat saved from the ground floor to the rest of the house. But I am not sure if that is technically possible.
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