whats the weather like in your area?

Its going to be a long winter by the looks of it folks.....

whelan2 wrote: »

might light the fire later:eek:

Oh still no need for that here. Geothermal...ya can't beat it

Username John wrote: »

Do you turn that off during the summer or how does it work Reg?

I thought it took a few days to raise the temp, so always wondering how it worked on one-off cool days...

Ya set it to whatever temp ya want as in 20 deg here. It will turn on or off to maintain thar temperature then. Heating pump came on for a half hour every day for 6 weeks from first of june till middle off July them it got a little cooler weather wise so it had to compensate. No maintaince system. Very handy. Expensive to put in at the start tho. Around 12k or so.

restive wrote: »

River suck has burst its banks. I am hoping it does not turn into a major flood.

Didn't think that much rain fell

lakill Farm wrote: »

that's cause you were probable asleep :rolleyes:

And your point

Reggie. wrote: »

Oh still no need for that here. Geothermal...ya can't beat it

Vertical or horizontal??

ABlur wrote: »

T'wud blow you away in Kilkee today!

Be a good day for fishing in dunlickey!

White Clover wrote: »

Reggie. Can you explain this heating system. Be building here in the next couple of years and trying to decide what to go for. Don't have any research done yet !

Mainly you have pipes in the ground a metre deep and a metre apart in your lawn or whatever. Requires an area roughly twice the size of your house ground plan. Brine is pumped through the pipes that are heated in the ground to whatever temp possible and then the heat pump will heat it up any more as required.

You set the temp in the house and it does the rest. Have it in the house 6 years now and no bother bar a panel that failed and replaced myself at a cost of €200. No need to service it or that was the sales pitch and we haven't serviced it yet. Main issues are the pumps but none have failed on us yet

frogloch wrote: »

Does your garden freeze over in the winter?;)

Nope :P

frogloch wrote: »

No it's just I heard of someone who had it in and in the winter they could see where the snow and frost would stay all day above where the pipes were buried. Maybe their pipes are not buried as deep as yours.:P

Well thats a better situation than the other 95% of the country with their oil boilers 40feet from the house and a strip of six inch lush grass when all else is white with frost from pipes that have bog standard lagging 6inches below surface. And people wonder why they spend 3k to heat a 1400sq ft semi detached for the year.