Blaze wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 9:51 am
I've always been curious to know how much they cost to run, particularly with electricity prices going up and up. Like all electric heating, are they better suited to modern, well insulated houses ? How would they perform in an old stone house with no foundations ?
My old stone house,bought as a wreck, has no foundations .
There is no towns gas available & I didn't want the hassle of installing oil fired central heating so I fitted a cheapo Brico Depot PAC (pump a chaleur) in the kitchen along with a woodie plus electric radiators & a woodie in the lounge. Bedrooms & ensuits have electric rads/towel rails which are rarely switched on.
It's worked fine for years with the cheapo PAC being replaced by a modern inverter ( auto speed control) model.
The 40m2 single story kitchen's PAC usualy runs for about 8 hrs a day which cost about 1€ in 'leccy (about 30€ per month) before the latest tarif increase. ( about 1,20€ now) Our 'leccy' bill for the last few years has been around 1k€ including hot water.
The lounge woodie is 'fired up' about 3 oclock in the afternoon & costs practically nothing to run as we have our own wood supply.
Anno Domini being what it is, wood burning is getting more of a chore hence the new PAC.
The attic rooms, which were built for family summer holidays, were never heated but will now be heated by the new PAC.
We will now have the principal rooms in the house fitted with PACs which will save me some effort & should be a selling point if we choose to move to a smaller house with not so much land.
