Heat Pumps

I'm not sure if this will be of any help to you, we use this company at work to do our install's in rental property's etc. One of our electricians and our office manager have had one installed in their house and swear by them.

Our landlord is considering putting one in here, which would be fantastic, since it's such an old place.

Fonko

Personally, I don't have one, but would love one

If the unit is outside, you've got to be careful that its not creating noise for your neighbour, apparently the number of noise complaints are up because of heat pumps.

i've done alot of research on heatpumps lately and got alot of quotes for different brands. our only heating is a gas heater in the lounge which is really bad for jack and my asthma, so we are getting a heatpump one day when we can afford it. we are thinking of going to retravision as they have pay day later and fujitsu on special

our recommended brands were fujitsu, mitsibishi and panasonic. apparently fujitsu are the most economical and quiet etc with mitsibishi close behind.

we'd love to get a log burner but as we are in chch it would cost almost twice as much as a heatpump because we need permits etc so heatpump is our only choice.

my grandparents have a toshiba one installed through the ecan clean heat thingee and i go over there quite abit to hang out because its so nice and toasty warm! its also really quiet too

good luck with what you decide, i definately say go for it!   

Now I want one!

We've got an old wooden floored bungalow that is FREEEEEEEEZING winter and summer

I'm not sure where in the house we would put it as our lounge is fairy small and only has internal walls (has hallway, dining room, office and sunporch off of it) so I think perhaps we'd put it in the dining room and install one of those heat transfer systems too.

What's the average price of a unit and installation?

don't suppose he'd wouldn't want Caitlin to suffer either LOL

oh bugger (re the transfer kit)

We just bought a house with a heat pump in it and it is FABULOUS!!!! So nice and warm and just the one (rather big mitsubishi) in the hall getsa the whole house nice and warm.

I know lots of places are installing them becuase of the clean air thing. I think nelson was this winter that was the last for fireplaces? You aren't allowed to install them there anymore or something...

We have a 50's bungelo, wooden floors, no insulation etc. We have a small house, it's 3 bedroom, but the living areas are all open plan.

We have a Diakon (sp?) in the lounge at one end of the house. It heats the lounge, kitchen, dining room and 2 bedrooms quite nicely. If we have it set at 22 in the lounge the bedrooms are normally around 18/19 so not too bad. It doesn't quite get the heat down to our bedroom at the other end of the house, but then we didn't see the point in getting the larger system ($800 more) as our garage comes off our master room (random I know!) and it's not lined so the heat would just disappear anyway. And we figured, we just put another blanket on the bed when we're cold anyway!

We paid $3000 all up and I couldn't be happier. We have it set at 19 during the day and 22 at night and I love it! When I get up for Coopers night feeds I just wonder down the lounge and it's nice and warm and toasty!

They are apparantly the most cost effective way to heat your home, so it should be fun to get the power bill. We were using a gas heater, probably filling up twice a month, so that was $40 and because we had that we ran the dehumidifier 24/7 so that would have been a good $20 on the power bill too. So if my bill is under $60 up I'll be happy! We also don't use the dryer as much as I just put the washing on a clothes horse in front of the heat pump and it's dry within the day.

You can also use it for air con during summer (however, I just open a window!!!) and it has a drying setting too, much like a dehumidifier.

Edited by sparkle

We had a Daikin installed at the start of winter. Its been the best thing we have ever purchased.   I love the Daikin, i spoke to a few people before we got it that had tried a couple different brands and they recommended the daikin.
Over the colder months we left our on 16 degrees night and day, it was enough to heat our 3 bedroom home and we have a heat trasfer kit from the lounge room (where the Daikin is) going up the hall way near the bedrooms, and it transfers a lot of heat.
Now that its getting warmer we can turn it off in the day and turn on at night or in the morning.
Our house is so warm all the time I love it.
We got ours installed by CH Faul and they done a really good job. Not sure if they are just Southland based or not. It cost $3600 all up installed and its a low wall one, which are supposedly better than the high wall, but then everyone has different opinions on them

Ours was fitted thru Climate Control. They're based on the Shore, but because I said we were recommended by a friend they came out West for us!

I found them great to deal with. A week after it was installed the main guy I dealt with rang to make sure we knew how to use it effectively etc and didn't send out the bill until we had spoken which I thought was great.