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Two types of heating required?

  • 23-03-2017 11:30am
    #1
    Thoie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,344 ✭✭✭


    This is all very vague, but someone mentioned to me recently that there's a requirement that new houses should have two different types of heating sources - e.g. a wood stove and gas central heating, so that you have a "backup" if the electricity is out. I'm looking through the Technical Guidelines (L), but not finding anything like that.

    Does anyone know if this is true, and if so, could you point me in the right direction to find it please?


Comments

  • #2
    Metric Tensor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,725 ✭✭✭Metric Tensor


    Absolute 100% Grade A Bullshit

    There's a requirement that a certain portion of the building's energy be generated by renewable means. Maybe down in the pub this requirement got morphed into "backup."


  • #3
    mike_2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 544 ✭✭✭mike_2009


    A lot of people like to have a nice stove as it's an attractive feature on a cold dark night and while it can function as a backup / supplement (if used with a back boiler for hot water), it's not a requirement. If the house is airtight & has a good BER it shouldn't leak much heat until the power is restored anyway.....

    So, nice to have, nice to look at but I don't think the heat police will be after you if you don't go for it!


  • #4
    Thoie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,344 ✭✭✭Thoie


    Thanks, I can stop looking so :)


  • #5
    blast06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 228 ✭✭blast06


    And as for the stove ..... 3.5 years living in new build and i have yet to light the stove.
    Cost of block work, extra work in roofing plus lead, chimney crown plus flue's, plastering, the stove, fireplace ..... all in ballpark 5K in my case and all it is doing is taking up about 1 square metre of floor space.....


  • #6
    gooner99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭gooner99


    I know someone that put in a ground source heat pump and 2 fireplaces. At the end of the build they covered the openings and so far after two years have not opened them again. You can always have a feature opening where you put in a hearth, some candles, etc. Houzz and google images has some ideas.

    Blast06 - I guess your figure of 5k could well be pretty much spot on when you take everything into consideration. Fireplaces and stoves can be expensive enough to install. That guy reckons he woukd have saved 2k per chimney if he hadn't built them.


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