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| Thread ID: 150821 | 2022-08-08 06:34:00 | New Heat Pump - Funding | piroska (17583) | PC World Chat |
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| 1487724 | 2022-08-08 06:34:00 | Our house is L Shaped. Worse, the existing heat pump is in far corner of lounge, blocked by dining wall never mind the hall way bend as well. So the other day 8 degrees outside. Heat pump on 22. Dining room, not bad - 18. Bedrooms, offices hall 10. Yes a ducted system would be nice but out of our reach. So I investigated. Rather confusing on HB Regional Council website, it all goes on about VTR funding for replacing open fires or non-compliant heating. We are doing neither. But in the actual form there (also confusing cause there is 2 versions, and just seem to have funding categories different way round to each other) it says you can still get funding, just a higher interest rate when replacing nothing. So off to get quotes as it asks... Main crowd that does this sort of thing: Brightr (One Smart Energy) went back and forth in email for a while then rang. To then say We don't put them in hallways and hung up. Right, whatever. Why ring then. Second one quoted me immediately on reply to my query, without visiting. With attached forms inc a direct debit form. Made out to council, but still, getting ahead a bit there? We insisted he come round, and he did but wasn't much interested in looking around, oh thats a sparky issue, oh that doesn't matter, oh...whatever... And quoted a small power unit. NUmber 3 came, and looked at things, measured things, ignored my suggestion of where to put outdoor unit and suggested on top of wee raised garden bit by house, on top of my rather big healthy shrub. Which is a further away spot from the indoor unit position anyway. And quoted an utterly outrageous price, and despite knowing we wanted to go via the funding, asked for 50% up front. Number 4 guy was went right round entire house, inside and outside, measured, looked in cupboards, under house etc, made suggestions, asked questions, and did the best quote of the lot, and good outdoor position etc. Gave my brother a quote with WINZ Approved Supplier number and when we said we'd rather not do that, would prefer council loan, sent through the forms with it all semi completed correctly and said leave it with them, they'll get back to us with COuncil approval (or not). tinyurl.com Rather good Google reviews. And a quite interesting Facebook page: www.facebook.com I had to view that via my brothers account, but even the public bit shows a interesting job they did. I approve of their animal pics too...LOL. What was interesting is there are very councils now doing this funding stuff. Auckland was...but over charged interest by mistake, and apologized, refunding those who needed refunding and then....decided to cancel the entire thing. Note: It's not quite the same thing as the Warmer Homes thing.Thats a different funding which also made it somewhat confusing.Until I figured that out. Lucky, cause we wouldn't qualify otherwise and the only other options were get a personal loan or use some dodgy QCard or other 3rd party finance. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1487725 | 2022-08-08 07:56:00 | there is crowds that install them in the hallway, but imho its a hack job. trying to heat several rooms via the hallway should never work well. because the hallway is a tiny space it can cause the heat pump to short cycle, which reduces its efficiency. i have two bedrooms with heat pumps and with them running and lounge running (all doors open) it heats the small hallway poorly. thats not bad because no one stays in the hallway, but its is a noticeable drop in temp when your walk through. sorry can't help on the funding side. hope all goes well for the install. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 1487726 | 2022-08-08 08:33:00 | Getting mine installed next week, can't wait. Small one in the bedroom for upstairs...gonna be brilliant next Jan/Feb when it's 24C at midnight. |
allblack (6574) | ||
| 1487727 | 2022-08-08 08:59:00 | Getting mine installed next week, can't wait. Small one in the bedroom for upstairs...gonna be brilliant next Jan/Feb when it's 24C at midnight. absolutely. main reason for getting mine was to cool the bed rooms down in summer. sleep so much better and that has big benefits for work during the day. winter heating is a very nice bonus. my place hits well over 30 degrees during summer. this is why the heat pumps run almost every day of the year. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 1487728 | 2022-08-08 09:48:00 | We just have the ranch slider by our bed open at night. Missus sleeps on that side so I tell her she's the designated burglar kicker outer! Ken :) |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1487729 | 2022-08-08 19:23:00 | Have a ducted one in this house but don't have a hallway as all rooms come off the lounge and so are heated by the fire as is water. I designed the house that way, unfortunately it is for sale and we are going travelling in our caravan as soon as its sold. | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1487730 | 2022-08-08 21:28:00 | trying to heat several rooms via the hallway should never work well. because the hallway is a tiny space it can cause the heat pump to short cycle, . It's not a small hallway. It's big. We need to warm 2 of the rooms off it. And they have explained clearly and well how it will work. Doors shut on other rooms, well yes they are anyway. Bathroom is shut always and mums room, she has it shut all the time, she doesn't care about temp there........... Ducted whole house they estimate would be about $10,000. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1487731 | 2022-08-09 05:47:00 | Have a ducted one in this house but don't have a hallway as all rooms come off the lounge and so are heated by the fire as is water. I designed the house that way, unfortunately it is for sale and we are going travelling in our caravan as soon as its sold. Back in the 60's we had an open fire in the lounge, once it got to hot, we opened up all the internal doors, it was great. Even had to run off the hot water, way down in the bathroom. Then along came ECAN and no more open fires. They gave us a heat pump for closing off the open fireplace, it actually did a great job for the cheapness of the unit, it was placed in the dinette and heated the home pretty well. We bought another unit for the lounge, doesn't impress us very much, wall mounted they recommended, with downward flow. lurking. |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1487732 | 2022-08-09 21:27:00 | Back in the 60's we had an open fire in the lounge, once it got to hot, we opened up all the internal doors, it was great. Even had to run off the hot water, way down in the bathroom. Then along came ECAN and no more open fires. Yes. I'd love a woodburner with ducting. Had woodburners in my own homes. They beat heatpumps by miles...but...can't afford that. It costs even more. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1487733 | 2022-08-10 06:08:00 | Then there is the government department which arranges for installation of an oversized heat pump with a million unnecessary functions and whos representatives seem fixated on wanting to know if their 'client' understands the WiFi function. I guess that's one function they understand themselves. Installing a wall mounted heat pump that is 2+KW bigger than recommended for the area by heat pump suppliers means blasts of suffocating heat for a few minutes and then cool air as the heat pump continually cycles off and on. Bad for the life of the heat pump and not so great for people either. A small heat pump in the open plan living area and another in the hall which would warm that and the two bedrooms which can get down to 10deg overnight mid winter would have been a better option. | bellbird (6169) | ||
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