"Mike Halmarack" wrote in message
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On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 21:24:40 +0100, "IMM" wrote:

One off payment? They cost to run. They estimate 6 years payback. Then
the
cost of the electricity to run it must be colossal after too. Very
little
insulation in that place, and those Atlantic winds blowing in. UFH only
on
the ground floor. To run a heat pumps is about the same cost as natural
gas.

Think of it as an indulgence. After all, isn't the building in last
nights show coming close to being the ultimate in property development
as the new religion?

It was in Ireland and they have a thing about religion. I personally would
have ripped the place down and built a proper eco house. Who wants to live
in a church? It looked like a church from the outside too. No additions to
distinguish it as a house.