Weird Flex of having a Fireplace

Just when you thought it peaked, the thread gets weirder.

What pronoun does your stove use?

Messy Bitch Obviously!!!

That's entirely correct, I can believe that you are a snob and others may think that you're not, it's subjective.

I haven't insulted or used derogatory language to you or others on this thread. Your use of kissy faces is and words like "buttercup" when addressing someone you don't know is odd to say the least for a grown man.

Anyway I'm done with the hassle of engaging with you.

They are your claims I am snob!

And I need only satisfy myself that it is true. I wasn't trying to convince you. you have a fairly evident lack of self awareness TBH as many have pointed out.

You've got nine pages out of an OP where you really have no point to make other than 'some' people are laughing at me heating system. You admit you only have experience of a broken therefore inefficient system and have spent your time looking down your nose and battling to make any coherent points.

Now you are claiming I made up stuff. I haven't, you judge people by the facade of their property, you judged my standards and you most definitely judge people as having dirty homes (Because you believe fires are 'dirty') when everyone daily creates 'dirt' by their activity and their pets activity. If you didn't clean after your dogs, using the loo, cooking, etc you'd live in a 'dirty' house too. 'Dirt' in a house is a fact of life unless of course you believe your farts smell of roses.

I did explain, you are in denial again.
Away now and cut some of that dawgs dingleberrys off before you get the bubonic plague or galloping knobs disease. 😁

Good luck, thread is boring now.

Wha - heat pumps are what is used to heat the underfloor heating

She could be right about the time it takes to bring the house up to full temperature. A heat pump will extract warmth from outside air which it will feed to a heat-exchange unit. A heat exchange unit can be designed to heat air or to heat water.
Thus we have air to air and air to water systems. Air to water is of course used for underfloor heating.

The limitation of such systems fitted to homes is that they do not do large volume conversion, thus it can take considerable time to heat up a new house or as she said to re-heat her home.

If she was using an (as example) oil burner, her home would be heated in a matter of hours, as the temperatures achieved in the primary source water is typically 60°C. In both cases the temp of the underfloor water would be about 35°C, but using the oil burner as source, the water flow can be much higher, as there is much more heat available in the water source from the boiler, and thus the transfer of heat to the floor would be much more efficient in time.

In addition, because of design limitations of these systems the floor screed in which the pipes are buried is designed to absorb heat quickly, with the downside that they also lose heat quickly. Essentially the floor is a large radiator running at something close to 35°C.

If she had an oil burner system designed from first day, she could have a floor screed of several inches thick concrete. This would be more akin to a large storage heater, designed to give off heat over a longer period. It would be heated to the same temperature but because of its thermal mass it would keep the house comfortable for much longer.

The oil burner solution would of course also lend itself to being powered by a small generator, which would keep the home up to full temperature as before electricity loss. The current draw to power the oil system would be a little over 1Amp, thus even while powered there would be plenty electrical power available for other uses. Most likely an hour a day would be sufficient to keep the house warm.

So yes, lots of systems have an upside, and they also have downsides. We should each choose what suits us best in the full knowledge of what limitations each system impose on us.

The above is my opinion …. investigate and come to your own conclusion. 😉