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I have advert from local suburban rag stating Farho electric panel as efficient as heat pump ie 5c per hour!
Can anybody support this?
Very attractive option if true!
Does anyone know anything about under carpet heating with heating mats?
We've started the process of installing Ducted central heating (with natural gas). Having grown up in Melbourne, I remember these with fondness. With an insulated ceiling and floor the ducting should make our house a comfortable 21 degrees every day of autumn/winter/early spring.
I wish Consumer had spent a little more time discussing this - perhaps worked with the "Choice" cousins?
We are in Auckland and have a 1930's house that has been renovated (parts of the house are new). We awould like to go with Heat Pump Ducting (in the floor). It has been stated that - as an optional extra - Outside Air can be brought in to reduce / eliminate condensation.
Sounds great, because we don't have a ventilation system, yet we want to reduce the moisture in our home. In winter we can feel the damp (yet under our house is dry & all appliances are ducted to outside).
We do understand that heating the air reduces the 'relative' humidity, but we have been in one house with ducting and the warm air felt damp and sticky.
Our question - how effective is the process of introducing Outside Air ie: will it eliminate / reduce the humidity? Will it be as effective as a ventilation system in reducing the humidity?
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks
Kind Regards
If I was putting in a ventilation system I would go for one with a heat exchanger, that way the air you introduce can be partially warmed (if needed ie winter)by the (warmer air) leaving the house, instead of pulling very cold air (at night) into the house you are trying to warm up/keep warm.
We have a 2 storey 1960's house in Wellington. It is approx 230 m2. There are 4 bedrooms and 2 living areas to heat. We are looking at either a gas ducted central heating system OR a ducted heatpump system. We are already connected to gas. We have googled the subject and are obtaining info and quotes from professionals, however we would like to get some UNBIASED feedback from the public on how you find your system and which is best - specifically running cost comparisons. We would be using a timer and basically running the system for 2 hrs in the morning and 5 hours in the evening. Can anyone give us some advice to help us decide on the most efficient and economical system to install & run? THANKS :)
can we have a link from the home page for it?
Can they? Won't that just cool down the house as unlike a dehumidifier where both the cold coils and the hot coils are inside the house so no energy is lost, a heatpump is extracting heat from the inside of the house and the heat is being released by the external heatpump coils.