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| Thread ID: 139562 | 2015-05-24 07:17:00 | Heat Pump? | DakotaNZ (17161) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1401261 | 2015-05-24 21:51:00 | We have all three, A fire, a heatpump, and sex. But not all at the same time. | Richard (739) | ||
| 1401262 | 2015-05-24 22:15:00 | We are considering to get a heat-pump. Fujitsu vs Mitshubishi? Do we need to install one in every (bed)room or just in the living room? |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1401263 | 2015-05-24 22:29:00 | You install one heat pump outside, and as many outlets as you wish. (Provided the pump can service them all). | Richard (739) | ||
| 1401264 | 2015-05-24 22:52:00 | Do you need such a thing in Auk !!!!!!!!!!. Christchurch we do, we have one in the kitchen dinnette and one in the lounge !!, combined about 7.5 watt in total. Would love to toss them and go back to open fire, as already stated by others, warmed the whole house good for cooking and hot water toooo, used to give good massages in front of great open fire, dreams on, lol. lurking. |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1401265 | 2015-05-24 23:22:00 | I wouldn't like one in the bedroom, even a quiet one is too noisy when I'm trying to sleep. I have one in the house and it heats the place fairly well and a 1KW convection wall heater with a thermostat in the bedroom that easily keeps the room warm silently overnight. I use the heat pump to heat the house but I turn it off overnight, no point heating rooms I'm not using. Since installing the heater in the bedroom I have not noticed any significant increase in power bills. For cold winter mornings I set the heat pump to come on a half hour before I get up. There are people who advocate leaving a heat pump on 24/7 but unless your house has exceptional insulation that's going to cost you a lot more than just heating (or cooling) it when you are home. My cheapest power bills are in spring and autumn when I don't use the heat pump at all, last month it was just $85. My worst power bills are a little over $200 and the heat pump is the largest contributor. Not that I mind, I'm not so cheap as to freeze when there's a perfectly good heater available. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1401266 | 2015-05-24 23:57:00 | Do you need such a thing in Auk !!!!!!!!!!. Christchurch we do. In Auckland we get to a maximum of 30 or so degrees in summer. In winter it can get to 0 at night and at coldest 7 in the day. You get hotter temps in summer but less humidity so it can feel worse here. You get frosts often and snow sometimes. We get frosts occasionally. In autumn (which I like best) it can be 25 degrees in day , without humidity, and cooler at night. Whereas you guys are tending to get the frosts already. It's still not t-shirt weather here in Winter though. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1401267 | 2015-05-25 00:28:00 | Haven't been outside yet, but builder says there is a coating of snow on Port Hills. Yes we do get the occasional hot day, but you can never tell when it will be, think there was one just the other day. Had two good frosts on Saturday and Sunday mornings'. Had snow for a couple of years that actually made the spouting collapse. Used to visit Auk 4 times a year and it either rained or it would be so muggy. Am North Islander originally, there for 29 years and only came south for more money, rofl. lurking. |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1401268 | 2015-05-25 06:37:00 | Consumer and other gov't bodies of that ilk (like the energy advisory folk) are prone to be unable to see the woods for the trees . Heat pumps give ~3 times the heat of any other purely electric heating per kwh consumed . If the user can't operate them correctly it is purely the ignorance of the operator to blame . A car may well be perfectly capable of cruising at 150 kph, doesn't make it a good cruise speed setting in a parking building . (Sex in front of an open fire may be better than in front of a heat pump . Behind the heat source it's a different story, and on top of . . . A spark on the carpet may add to the thrill of the game for one party, the other will henceforth not hear a word spoken against heatpumps ;)) I am not saying heat pumps are useless at all, you get free heat from the surrounds and the electricity is just used for the compressor . I just find a fire better because I use free wood costs only a about 2 liters of gas for the stilly and it heats the water . Can be a pain in the ass as the hot water cylinder boils and spews out onto the roof waking everyone up got to get up and drain some hot water out and go back to bed . |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1401269 | 2015-05-25 08:58:00 | Can confirm, it's not quite as romantic, but still 'works' just the same ;)I had the pleasure in front of an open fire only once in my life (sad maybe) but it left a fine and memorable impression in my mind which is unlikely to ever be superseded. :) | Greg (193) | ||
| 1401270 | 2015-05-27 09:33:00 | haha, we have a fire too that is also a wetback, but with the newer fires it's hard to keep them going all night as you can't dampen them down as much, so the heatpump is still handy for those chilly mornings :) | DakotaNZ (17161) | ||
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