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Thread ID: 100204	2009-05-30 04:02:00	Heat Pump question	Nomad (952)	PC World Chat

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778216	2009-05-30 04:02:00	Hi, for those who have them, do you really see a difference in your power bills? I assume it is driven by power, if is it gas? For places like Singapore, when you want aircon throughout your whole apartment / house, how does one achieve that? I gather the inverter heat pump unit in NZ is only for one room? I saw the advert in a store and it said installation cost up to $1,000 . Thanks .	Nomad (952)
778217	2009-05-30 05:07:00	Hi Nomad, I had a heatpump installed in March last year and my Winter power bills went down by $30 - $40 per month for the coldest months. (I previously used just a little fan heater.) I also used it in the Summer for airconditioning in Jan and Feb this year. The power price increase for those two months was around $20 per month. It cost me $3,800 all up. It has to heat a fairly large area so I got a 6.5 KW one. I wouldn't know about whats in Singapore but if you want the benefit of a heatpump in say four rooms, you would need to have an inverter in all the 4 rooms. I think you can run up to 4 operating off the same outside unit. Cheers LL	lakewoodlady (103)
778218	2009-05-30 05:12:00	Hi, for those who have them, do you really see a difference in your power bills? I assume it is driven by power, if is it gas? For places like Singapore, when you want aircon throughout your whole apartment / house, how does one achieve that? I gather the inverter heat pump unit in NZ is only for one room? I saw the advert in a store and it said installation cost up to $1,000 . Thanks . There's two options 1) As Lakewoodlady has mentioned, you can get split systems where you can run multiple internal units off one external unit . 2) There are ducted aircon/heatpump units, similar to the ones used in commercial premises - i . e . a unit sits on the roof or ceiling space, and pumps hot/cold air into each room through vents in the ceiling .	somebody (208)
778219	2009-05-30 05:48:00	Hi Nomad This is not your query......however you may be interested to know that if you have a house built before the year 2000 and you (including your partner if you have one) earn a total of less than $100,000 per year, you will probably qualify for a grant of $1,125. That brings down the total price of the heat pump quite considerably. If you want more details just say. Misty :)	Misty (368)
778220	2009-05-30 05:54:00	Misty thanks for that, I thought it was $500 before, it still has to come into effect right? Was that related to the budget. I thought the thousand odd figure was for insulation.	Nomad (952)
778221	2009-05-30 05:58:00	Hi Nomad This is not your query......however you may be interested to know that if you have a house built before the year 2000 and you (including your partner if you have one) earn a total of less than $100,000 per year, you will probably qualify for a grant of $1,125. That brings down the total price of the heat pump quite considerably. If you want more details just say. Misty :) Ummmmm..... There are grants as to Solar heating, not sure about Heat pumps and now Insulation. Looks like you are referring to insulation though when you mention a house built before the year 2000 because no other grants mentioned any year.	Sweep (90)
778222	2009-05-30 06:05:00	Misty thanks for that, I thought it was $500 before, it still has to come into effect right? Was that related to the budget. I thought the thousand odd figure was for insulation. Yes - it is $500 (plus $1300 for insulation) due to come into effect 1 July this year - unless you are eligible for a community services card ($1800 for insulation and $1200 for heating). The Government is offering to pay a third of the cost of installing ceiling and under floor insulation, up to $1300, in homes built before 2000. Homes with sufficient ceiling and under floor insulation may also access $500 for clean heating devices like approved log burners, pellet burners, heat pumps, or flued gas heaters. See: eeca.govt.nz To answer your earlier question regarding the power bill - our power bill has stayed the same, but it's because we're using the heatpumps a lot more now because it's cheaper - thus our house is a lot warmer in winter than it used to be.	somebody (208)
778223	2009-05-30 14:55:00	somebody, this has been noticed before: en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org	zqwerty (97)
778224	2009-05-30 21:44:00	Hi, for those who have them, do you really see a difference in your power bills? I assume it is driven by power, if is it gas? For places like Singapore, when you want aircon throughout your whole apartment / house, how does one achieve that? I gather the inverter heat pump unit in NZ is only for one room? I saw the advert in a store and it said installation cost up to $1,000 . Thanks . I got a Heat Pump about 7 years ago, and yes my power bill did go up, mind you I was using a portable gas heater before that . Back then a 9kg gas bottle cost about $18 to fill and was using just over one a week during the winter . I think they are over $30 to fill now . I think July is the worst month here when I'm paying about $30 a month more on my normal power bill usage . So Yes I would say it is cheaper than using a portable gas heater . :)	Trev (427)
778225	2009-05-30 22:32:00	and a lot safer than portable gas heaters which have a terrible reputation. Only downside with heatpumps is if you regularly get power cuts	gary67 (56)
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