heat pumps or gas

lisab138

Hi all,

I'm new to the site and just wanted to get some opinions on what type of heating system we should put in to our house.

We just bought a 980 sq foot 3 bed mid terrace house in Dublin. Currently there's no heating system. We we're going to go for a good gas boiler, internal insulation on the external walls and multi-fuel stove in the main living room downstairs until we had someone out to look at it and they suggested alternatives such as heat pumps and wood pellet stoves. Of the two alternatives we're leaning more towards hp but with rads intsead of underfloor heating because of concrete floors downstairs.

Are the hp suited to our type of house and if so air or ground or would we better sticking to the original plan of gas combined with good insulation and the stove. Any advice would be much appreciated?

Condenser

lisab138 wrote: »

Hi all,

I'm new to the site and just wanted to get some opinions on what type of heating system we should put in to our house.

We just bought a 980 sq foot 3 bed mid terrace house in Dublin. Currently there's no heating system. We we're going to go for a good gas boiler, internal insulation on the external walls and multi-fuel stove in the main living room downstairs until we had someone out to look at it and they suggested alternatives such as heat pumps and wood pellet stoves. Of the two alternatives we're leaning more towards hp but with rads intsead of underfloor heating because of concrete floors downstairs.

Are the hp suited to our type of house and if so air or ground or would we better sticking to the original plan of gas combined with good insulation and the stove. Any advice would be much appreciated?

If you go for a heat pump don't use standard rads with it, you must use low temp fan assisted rads. Your kw requirement will be very small due to your sq footage and only having two external walls and a roof which will be insulated, so a small air to water unit would do perfectly well. Ground source would be overkill and maybe not even possible.
Gas would be slightly cheaper to install (not much in this case) but more expensive to run, though I can't see bills on such a house being too excessive.

lisab138

thanks for that