The main problem with heat pumps is that it usually don’t generate as much heat as burning something(gas, wood…) So if houses are not well insulated you will spend much more time and a lot of electricity heating it and maybe won’t have the same comfort
Yeah that’s a worry for me, I do want to switch to heatpump in the future, I can benefit from having solars on the shed (have a nice ~25m2 shed), and a few panels on the house, so it may offset the running costs. But ofc thats some time in the magical future where I have money for all that.
And I have yet not done any surveys about how effective it would be
There are calculators online where you can enter your house/room details and get an estimate if any upgrades would be needed to make it reliably comfortable with a heat pump. I don’t know any for the UK specifically tho. Maybe those estimates are too climate/building code sensitive
The main problem with heat pumps is that it usually don’t generate as much heat as burning something(gas, wood…) So if houses are not well insulated you will spend much more time and a lot of electricity heating it and maybe won’t have the same comfort
Yeah that’s a worry for me, I do want to switch to heatpump in the future, I can benefit from having solars on the shed (have a nice ~25m2 shed), and a few panels on the house, so it may offset the running costs. But ofc thats some time in the magical future where I have money for all that.
And I have yet not done any surveys about how effective it would be
There are calculators online where you can enter your house/room details and get an estimate if any upgrades would be needed to make it reliably comfortable with a heat pump. I don’t know any for the UK specifically tho. Maybe those estimates are too climate/building code sensitive