On 19/10/2019 16:15, alan_m wrote:
On 19/10/2019 13:52, Martin Brown wrote:

I would worry about the maintenance regime that ground source heating
will require. The only people I know who have it have complained
bitterly that it costs much more to run than their old oil fired CH
and involved a lot of disruption to install the ugly bulky low
temperature difference radiators and pipework.

Probably why it is always recommended that the bulky radiators are built
into the floor!

I cannot work out why we dont run pipework behind plasterboard walls

Rather than underfloor

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