"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Funny Lingus wrote:
Interesting, storage heaters ripped out and new electric boiler with air
transfer heat pump mounted in garden.

I'd guess anything better than storage heaters.

Apart from ducted-air/ My parents' house, built in 1972, had gas-fired
ducted-air and it was very underwhelming: a vague trickle of tepid air out
of the ducts, wafting dust everywhere. The house was always cold.

Storage heaters fail because they give out their heat too quickly in a
morning (even when the heat output control is turned right down) and there
isn't much left by the time you get home from work in an evening. Also there
is no way of programming the heat output to increase shortly before you get
home from work so the house is up to temperature. My first house had a
single storage heater (the house was open-plan so the heat rose from the
living room to the bedroom) but it also had a couple of panel radiators
(lounge and bedroom), supposedly just to provide "supplementary" heating,
though I needed them most of the time.

When my wife and I were looking for a new house, we saw one which had
central heating with an heat-transfer pump and radiators. The house was
perfectly warm, but we both agreed that the constant whine of the stale-air
extraction pump, audible in every room, would have driven us mad very
quickly. The boiler and floor-to-ceiling hot-water cylinder occupied most of
the utility room, and that was excluding the heat-exchanger (on the wall
outside) for extracting heat for the ground.