Heat pump sales rise by 40% in 2022

Poor old zany will blow a gasket. Who in their right minds would think a reversed fridge would be better than a boiler.

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She told i: “I have the heating on all the time but instead of running for a few hours, and then turning it off while it maintains the temperature, my heat pump is running up to 15 hours a day. It’s costing up somewhere in the region of £20 a day.”

This is the equivalent of around £600 a month, nearly six times more than her initial estimate.

Jane also had to deal with the unit sensors in the water tank breaking down more than once, which meant she didn’t have any hot water.

She said: “It was really stressful. We also ran into problems with the fans. I realised they had been using £8 of energy a day but weren’t doing anything.

“We’ve had people come back lots of times to try and sort the issues but they’re carrying on.”

Jane was lucky her solar panels kicked in to keep the water warm, but she is still struggling to heat the rest of the house.

She said: “The radiators aren’t getting warm. I gave it weeks to bed in but our rooms just weren’t warming up. I called the company and said ‘something’s not right’ and they just gave me one excuse after another. There were also problems with the underfloor heating.”

The noise coming from her heat pump has also disturbed her. “There are pipes and pumps in the airing cupboard. It’s constantly whooshing and sounds like a burst pipe.

“The heat pump needs to keep itself defrosted when its cold so its whizzing around at night and it sounds like a helicopter is taking off outside the bedroom.”

You hear this time and time again but the net zero zealots just adopt the post office position and refuse to accept it.

Red - anecdotal reportage is rarely persuasive especially when the same little piece of (unverifiable) 'evidence' is offered up time and time again.

I think we've all heard enough about the experiences of your pub acquaintance and his heat pump so my friendly advice to you would be to come up with something new, something documented and verifiable, or alternatively exit the heat pump discussion until such time as you can. You're not adding anything to our store of knowledge.

Your pal, Dan.

I think all these 'sources' have already been cited at one time or another by one or another of the anti-heat pump Crusaders here.

The common theme appears to be that a majority of the housing stock in the UK is unsuited for heat pumps because they are poorly insulated or of otherwise inferior construction, which is really the kernel of the problem rather than any inherent defect of heat pumps themselves.

You could be right. In the early days there were a number of split systems being sold that only worked down to 5 degrees C, we had a couple fitted at work. They were basically air conditioning units that could be reversed to give heat. 
More recent ones work down to -15 degrees. 

With total honesty the only time my system has not fully coped was when we had a short spell at minus 9 degrees. 

I was watching this programme earlier called The Fully Charged Show and was rather pissed off with them in that they were essentially lying and over-selling them. This is why the public never trusts these bastards. If they told the truth no one would buy a duff heat pump and everyone who bought one would have made the right choice. It's when you pay 12 grand and it fucks up and then you start talking to others which is their downfall. Brexit was another example of this. It was a reasonable thing to do, but anyone in the know, knew it would never be an instant fix to our immigration and economy. Now they don't trust anything they say.