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Fischer heating - please help

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  • KittenChops
    KittenChops Posts: 472 Forumite
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    Get an air-source heat pump. You'll get a £7500 grant towards it.
    Happy to be corrected but - I don't think OP would be eligible, as they currently have an all electric system - I thought the grants were for those switching from gas/oil 
    "You’re eligible for a grant if both of the following are true. You must:
    • own the property you’re applying for (including if it’s a business, a second home, or a property you rent out to tenants)

    • be replacing fossil fuel heating systems - such as oil, gas, electric or LPG (liquefied petroleum gas)"

    And I am very happy to be corrected!

  • Scot_39
    Scot_39 Posts: 3,479 Forumite
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    edited 23 July at 3:31PM
    Get an air-source heat pump. You'll get a £7500 grant towards it.

    The OP has no wet infrastructure - has panel heaters and whatever form the Fischer HW "boiler" takes.

    So its an interesting balance - of costs.

    I wonder if a central outside compressor air to air - reverse air con type system might work out cheaper for the OP.   But even those need IIRC refrigerant style pipework to the external compressor.

    Or even just per room units - even if only in the main room like the living room (or a couple of rooms) (with AFAIK the caveat those need far bigger holes for air exchange) and so placed on external walls.

    Neither would solve the HW issue though (but dont some older ASHP designs revert to immersion style heaters at least for their "legionella cycles"). 

    In the same way many in past have relied on say a wood stove in one location and normal air circulation to do most of the heavy lifting to heat the whole house.

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