Re: [Strawbale] Re: Strawbale Digest, Vol 4, Issue 9

[Simon Blackbourn <piemanek@gmail...>]

Hi Harald

I'm very interested in the heating system you mention, but the potential project is a very low budget one - so can you tell me if this was an expensive and/or complex system to install?

And do you think it could be powered by a small windmill? The house will be in a very windy location - the extreme south west tip of Ireland!

Best Wishes
Simon

On 18/01/06, avantgarden@wxs... <avantgarden@wxs... > wrote:

..... the remarkable thing about is the heating system.
The house is standing in a rather shady situation, sad enough, solar
systems cannot be applied for heating. Instead electricity is used to
extract warmth from the outside air and sending this warmth via water
through pipes. Those heat up the loam stucco inside the house. Who knows
the english term for Luftwärmepumpe, I guess its not airwarmthpump;-)
The bad thing about it is, that it needs electricity for this process.
The good news is: It needs very little maintanance and consumes little
electricity. Last week I noticed a weekly average of 25 KW per day
keeping the house temperature at 20 C° whith an average outside
temperature of -3 C°.....