help just tell me which energy to go with

pokadot

we have moved into a 3-4 bed 1960's bungalow with no access to gas in the village. we have night storage heating and an immersion water tank, i have been round and round with all the options and i just dont know what energy route to go with! im starting to get a headache as its all i ever think about now- please someone just tell me which heating supply to go with- wet electric system on e10, stick with e7 and night storage, electric panel heaters, oil, lpg... ??? underfloor heating, i am so confused and just want an honest answer! we have up to about 4-5k to spend on a cost effective energy sytem if its the right one- please help!

[Deleted User]

Nobody can answer you with the little info given...

Is the house occupied during the day etc...

pokadot

yes some days we are in, but mainly working 9-5, needing heating in the evening, we are a family of 4 with 1 baby and 1 toddler on a tight buget? we have mainly showers but like the occasional bath and are pretty energy concious with turning lights off when leaving a room etc.... any advice on good successful energy solutions would be most appreciated, it seem all the solutions i think are good seem to be the worst idea. someone suggested linking a woodburner to a central heating systen (probably electric boiler) so we could heat the bedrooms / house in the evenings via wood burner and electric mornings? any thoughts...?

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What you have at the moment is probably the cheapest solution as £4-5k is not enough for renewables.

Consider more insulation and suplement existing heating with log burners if access to cheap/free wood.

Perhaps in the future look into GSHP, ASHP when funds allow. The beauty of our ASHP is that we have low bills like mains GCH would give you.

Personally, I would not go oil or LPG having had them in the past due to high cost.

pokadot

i am just looking into ASHP actually- just rang a company which quoted me £389 for a wall mouted unit MZ SRK28HG5 2.8kw the lady said it was A rated energy effient and had a cop of 3.64 and would use 900 watts of energy per hours- approx 20-30p per hour. i was thinking of keeping our immersion water tank and installing these units in each room- does this sound like a viable option? our room sizes are approx 9 square meters

[Deleted User]

Air to air units are really good, perhaps go for a split system so you don't have to many units on the outside walls. I'd always stick with Mitsubishi, Daikin etc for backup/spares. Some vids on youtube of people doing this.

ReflexReaction

Hmm AHSP's really work that well?

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ReflexReaction wrote: »

Hmm AHSP's really work that well?

Mine works so well that even if I moved to an area with mains gas i'd probably plump for another ASHP :-) Having lived in loads of different houses I'd say our ASHP is running much cheaper than mains gas. Unfortunately not all ASHPs run this well...

lovesgshp

pokadot wrote: »

i am just looking into ASHP actually- just rang a company which quoted me £389 for a wall mouted unit MZ SRK28HG5 2.8kw the lady said it was A rated energy effient and had a cop of 3.64 and would use 900 watts of energy per hours- approx 20-30p per hour. i was thinking of keeping our immersion water tank and installing these units in each room- does this sound like a viable option? our room sizes are approx 9 square meters

Air/Air are efficient. Tried to look up the model you gave for the spec, but no result.

ReflexReaction

jeepjunkie wrote: »

Mine works so well that even if I moved to an area with mains gas i'd probably plump for another ASHP :-) Having lived in loads of different houses I'd say our ASHP is running much cheaper than mains gas. Unfortunately not all ASHPs run this well...

So what do you use? And why don't all ASHPs work as well as yours :money:

sk240

I have recently had a toshiba ras137skv installed (aprox cost installed was £1000).This heats aprox half of my home, with an old back boiler on LPG heating 2 bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs.
in the last month the heat pump has used only £10 worth of electricity, compared with £45 to heat the bedrooms and bathroom!
the pilot light on the boiler is using £20 per month by itself! (£65 LPG bill this month)
I couldn't recommend an ASHP enough.