Air 2 water heating

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Twas. You said it yourself you were ashamed but twas money in your pocket

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Roughly 40% of my usage is at night. The cost at night per kWh is half the the cost at peak rate. However you do pay a slightly higher extra standing charge.

Once your night usage is above 27% then it’s worth moving to night rate.

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@the_selfish_giant wasn’t but this new lad @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy is I’d say alright.

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Is the fire really such a problem? While they’re slow to heat up, underfloor systems also lose heat very slowly as far as I know. You’d want to have a fire on all day for it to make any difference surely.

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That’s just poor design in my opinion @Julio_Geordio

The location of UFH thermostats is very important, away from sunlight and heat sources. Some companies go with a centralised thermostat for each zone and that tends to work better than each room having its own internal stat.

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Era o got coal from Derry, Crossmaglen, Donegal and others
Not too worried :wink:

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Both my thermostats are well set from sunlight

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Don’t run anything at night
I’d drive my neighbours bonkers
Walls r so thin I can hear word for word
And vice versa obviously

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Those wall mounted HP units are a lot noisier than ground mounted… less vibration on ground. That said if you can’t run the HP at night then the whole thing is pointless and is poorly thought out. Surely the outside walls are pumped so noise coming though externals walls should be minimal enough?

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No tbh fairly noisy at 3/4 in the morning or whenever my neighbour decides to go to bed

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Our new build has Air To Water.

The previous house we were renting was a similar size but it was very old and poorly insulated compared to a new build that has to follow all the new insulation regulations.

I think my energy bills are probably about half of what they were in the rented place. In the rented house we had an electricity bill and gas bill. Now it’s just electricity.

My most recent bill was the most expensive, for a couple reasons.

  1. The 12 month discounts on the account ran out so we were paying full price
  2. Height of Winter across the 2 months even including the Gov credit
  3. Snow week

I just moved suppliers from Airtricity where I was no longer getting discounts to Electric Ireland where I’m getting decent ones. I expect my electricity bill will be significantly less in April.

I try keep the temperature at 20 all over the house, and we have thermostats in most rooms that can be set individually. We don’t have solar panels as we’re not eligible for grants yet. We have underfloor heating and no radiators.

I could probably put more effort into timers etc to squeeze more out of the smart meter and night plan. I just couldn’t be arsed. If the bill was nearer what we used to have in the rental place I’d be more motivated but it’s not so I’m not.

The house is pretty warm due to all the insulation and a good lot of glass especially in the kitchen. One of the snow days, the sky was clear and the sun was shining despite it being freezing outside, the glasshouse effect in our kitchen meant it was 26 degrees in the kitchen.

Solar Panels are a while away I’d say. The plan was to put them on the garage that currently doesn’t exist. So yeah, probably a few years yet.

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Thanks for the information boy :ok_hand::clap:
Sounds like you’ve it worked out👌
ATM I’m 19.5 downstairs (thermostat in hall)
Upstairs not at 18.5 not kicking in unless I push it past 19 degrees
Thermostat in Bedroom
But nice to come into a cosy hse

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Ref SP and this system
Lots on the net don’t recommend it

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I dunno pal. It’s a long time since that Galway hoor posted here

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That’s the biggest issue with modern houses, over heating.

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:clap::clap::clap::clap::blush:Vg

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Mine doesent
But did yes when we had the open fire

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Yeah, we’ve a velux in the kitchen that’s open throughout the year.

Mrs. CLD had pictured a big stove in the kitchen. When we went to yerman in House of Stoves in Kilkenny he basically said “I can sell you a stove, whatever size you like, but you’ll never light it. It’ll sit there and you’ll put candles on it.” so we have an electric fire that is on a lot of the time but never has the heat turned on.

We don’t have a chimney or stove at all anywhere in the house. We have no use for any coal, peat or sticks ever again.

In winter you’d walk around the house and it might seem cool. The passive heat and underfloor heating takes a littke bit of getting used to. It’s odd compared to houses with radiators because the source of the heat is much more obvious in old school houses. In these houses when you go outside for a minute, then come back in, it becomes much more obvious how warm it is.

We have the thermostats turned off for probably 8 months of the year. No need for anything other than hot water.

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Absolutely.

Having a house at a constant comfortable 20 degrees is one of life’s luxury’s.

Are you urban living these days? We’d have been fucked without our wood burning stove during the recent outage.

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We’re rural enough.

We got a site on my wife’s father’s farm in what you’d probably call extra suburban Kilkenny. We’re very close to town but rural enough to be woken by a yelping fox at 4am.

In fact, we’re right beside the farmyard. There is a big shed of sticks a puck of a ball away that had been earmarked for use in said hypothetical stove but are now completely useless to us.

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