Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Move a heat pump

  • 22-02-2020 11:16am
    #1
    stiofan85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    Our heat pump is located in an awkward position on our patio and really constrains what we can do with the space. I would like to move it circa 1 meter to the side of the house. The side faces onto a garden.

    Looking at the pipework there is a natural break at shut of valves, and also there is an electrical isolation valve. It looks to be just a case of shutting off the valves and electricity, replacing the pipework (looks to be qualpex in insulation) and the electrical cables with longer lengths of the same. Then moving the whole thing to the new location as it is just sitting on rubber blocks.

    Questions are:

    Is it this straightforward? I'm very competent at DIY and have done plenty of work on heating & permitted electrics in our previous house including adding rads and the odd socket etc... This was all on a gas fired system so a lot more info online, but a Heat Pump is new to me.

    If it is not as straightforward, what are the missing steps? Heating system is pressurised so I guess there could top up of pressure involved.

    If it's a complicated process I'll get someone in, but if it's within a DIYer's potential I'd gladly do it.

    Any advice would be appreciated


Comments

  • #2
    Latro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭Latro


    If it's monoblock HP then it is very easy and you should not have any problems DIYing.


  • #3
    Tilikum17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭Tilikum17


    Sorry to high jack the thread but could anyone tell me roughly how much it would cost to retrofit a heat pump system into a house.


  • #4
    markyk20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 ✭markyk20


    Hi, just wondering did you go ahead with this relocation project?



  • #5
    stiofan85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭stiofan85


    Hi no I didn't do it in the end. I researched it, found the right connections for the plumbing -they are expensive, and then decided for the few times we're on the patio during the summer, it wasn't worth my time doing it. I got a guy in to look at it and he never came back with a price.



Advertisement