Air Sourced Heating.
- Neil Scotford
- Oct 4, 2019
- 2 min read
Can you really get heat from the Air ?.
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“Heating your home is always going to be expensive and if like me the options are electricity only you have no choice..... or do you ?.”
What is Air Sourced Heating
Air sourced heating is in simple terms Air conditioning in reverse, There is a unit outside of the house and a cylinder in an airing cupboard just like a standard gas system.
The difference is the cost of producing the energy to heat your water and your radiators.
The system is approximately four times as efficient as its counterpart, this makes a very efficient heating system.
With the units requiring little electrical energy they also lend themselves to renewable sources, no fossil fuels are burned and no dangerous gasses are emitted into the atmosphere.
We had the system installed because we have no gas in the village and the only options where electric night storage heaters or having an unsightly oil tank in the garden.
The night storage heaters we had previously where horrendously expensive to run.
I am an advocator of green energy, we as humans have consumed fair too many natural resources from this wonderful planet and sooner or later it will run out. We also produce very little of our own gas, we actually buy most of it from Russia !
We have had this system installed for just over a year now and i have to say i am impressed with the warmth and the savings have been a real eye opener.
We also moved from British Gas to Bulb as they are one of the only electricity vendors that provide energy from 100% renewable sources.
Overall we have saved 75% on our annual energy bill this past year.
The whole system was slightly more expensive than a conventional gas system, however in another year we would have recovered the additional cost and some.
George Clarke's video about the Mitsubishi Ecodan system we have installed.
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