Non-gas methods of heating your home
Discussion
Hi All,
We're just in the process of completing a sale on a bungalow Kirkby Mallory (home to Mallory Park!) and the village has no mains gas - this is completely new to us!
At the moment, being a 1960's property, it's got the original storage heaters which are likely to be quite expensive/ineffective. In the next couple of years, we do plan to make extensive alterations to the property so we're interested in both short and long term solutions.
A lot of the houses in the village have oil tanks/boilers, but I'm put off by the expense of oil and unsightly oil tanks. I would prefer to opt for a more modern solution. The main solutions I've considered are;
Electric Underfloor Heating - this is pretty cheap to install and wouldn't require any major plumbing work/finding space to install a boiler. However, I've been told that it's quite ineffective and expensive to run. In the longer-term, I could subsidise the running costs by adding some PV panels.
Air Source Heat Pump - slightly more expensive to install, but perhaps a more well established solution. This would then run a wet underfloor heating system. I don't know how the running costs of these compare with electric UFH.
I've not yet looked at the Tesla panels and I'm not too sure how they work, but perhaps they could be an option too.
I've discounted boimass boilers due to their high upfront cost and large physical size and also ground source heat pumps because I don't want to trash the garden.
Is there anything I've not thought about? Very happy to receive input from anyone who can help!
We're just in the process of completing a sale on a bungalow Kirkby Mallory (home to Mallory Park!) and the village has no mains gas - this is completely new to us!
At the moment, being a 1960's property, it's got the original storage heaters which are likely to be quite expensive/ineffective. In the next couple of years, we do plan to make extensive alterations to the property so we're interested in both short and long term solutions.
A lot of the houses in the village have oil tanks/boilers, but I'm put off by the expense of oil and unsightly oil tanks. I would prefer to opt for a more modern solution. The main solutions I've considered are;
Electric Underfloor Heating - this is pretty cheap to install and wouldn't require any major plumbing work/finding space to install a boiler. However, I've been told that it's quite ineffective and expensive to run. In the longer-term, I could subsidise the running costs by adding some PV panels.
Air Source Heat Pump - slightly more expensive to install, but perhaps a more well established solution. This would then run a wet underfloor heating system. I don't know how the running costs of these compare with electric UFH.
I've not yet looked at the Tesla panels and I'm not too sure how they work, but perhaps they could be an option too.
I've discounted boimass boilers due to their high upfront cost and large physical size and also ground source heat pumps because I don't want to trash the garden.
Is there anything I've not thought about? Very happy to receive input from anyone who can help!
DSGbangs said:
Central air conditioning unit with outdoor unit.
During winter run on heat mode
During summer run on cooling mode
Easy.
This is one I haven't considered and having cooling in the summer would be nice too.During winter run on heat mode
During summer run on cooling mode
Easy.
I expected that the running costs would be expensive on a system like this though?
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