By installing a heat pump in his house in the hills of Oslo, Oyvind Solstad killed three birds with one stone, improving his comfort, finances and climate footprint.

Heat pumps can’t take the cold? Nordics debunk the myth::By installing a heat pump in his house in the hills of Oslo, Oyvind Solstad killed three birds with one stone, improving his comfort, finances and climate footprint.

  • Overzeetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    11 months ago

    Good Lord - $2600 for a whole house system? I think that’s what my local (mid-Atlantic US) HVAC shop is getting for a single-room mini-split.

    Wait until people find out about ground-source heat pumps and water heater heat pumps. What you get out of those is more consistent year round, too. It’s almost like leveraging technology has benefits over just burning carbon and hydrogen to make heat.

      • Nobsi@feddit.deEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        You’re just repeating what all the gas installers keeep repeating so they don’t lose business.
        Every House built after 1990 or houses that have had insulation makovers in the past 20 years are perfectly fine to heat with a heatpump.

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      11 months ago

      I got a quote in rural America for a single room minisplit, $10,300.

      Absolutely bonkers.

      • Calavera@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        The guy you quoted just want to make his monthly paycheck on you alone, because that’s way over anything reasonable

    • happyhippo@feddit.itEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      2600 is dirt cheap even by Euro standards, trust me.

      Here in Italy a single room split would cost you around 1k to 2.5-3k depending on the brand.

      A whole house system you’re probably looking at 10k and then some.

    • Avg@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Half of my house was 8k, the other side I’m planning to install myself because I don’t have that kind of money just waiting to be spent anymore.

    • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      11 months ago

      I don’t think Geothermal makes much sense unless you live in one of the extremes, mainly the cold one, For example I an from Slovakia and I don’t think the temperature here went under -20C in the last few years, I barely remember any days going under - 10C, so you would be paying quite a premium for a geothermal heat pump for rather marginal gains, it would certainly need quite a good analysis if the difference in performance would ever pay for the price difference, especially with better insulation and heat recuperation systems becoming mandatory.

      There are also things like heat pump based driers now on the market btw.

      • Overzeetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I suspect it’s mostly a function of mass availability. Even here in the states ground source heatpumps are rare, even though the systems are more reliable (since there is no equipment exposed to weather) and a shallow borehole isn’t excessively expensive.

        I’d forgotten about heat pump clothes dryers. Those are fascinating, and really interesting for older buildings or locations without close access to exterior venting.

    • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.ukEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Yeah similar in the UK. £3k for a single room mini split. £6k for a two room, etc. There’s no way you’re doing a whole house for less than bend-over money.