On Tue, 18 May 2021 10:54:03 +0100
"NY" wrote:

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
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.

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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.


For the thirty-odd years that I lived in America, the forced air
heating and cooling systems were always fine. Having done it that way
for years and years, they probably knew what to do. A heating system
could always have Air Conditioning added, and believe me, you need it
over there. In all of the places we lived, and there were many, none
ever had a problem keeping warm.
Often, the forced air fan was a bit noisy, but we got used to it, it
only came on when calling for heat.
The house we rented in Kansas City also had a 'whole-house fan', a
giant louvred extract fan mounted in the ceiling, and venting into the
loft. Adequate loft ventilation, always a given in American houses,
took care of the hot air. The fan could cool a hot house down in ten
minutes, you just needed earplugs while it was running.

--
Davey.