23 Feb 2012 8:48 PM:
thanks Xetog - a heating engineer's name if ever there was one. Not complicated at all, very well put.
If we buy the particular part built house we have in mind then a HP will almost certainly be used so the learning curve has just started to climb - that ground source energy would (probably) be better than air source hadn't occured to me as I just assumed there's plenty of air and it's usually warm [during recent cold snap we had +3 as lowest temp]. The house is located on aluvial deposits in a wide river valley, there's already a pozo so going downwards shouldn't need a rock bit, also there's plenty of space for trenches. Do let me know if you have any other tips or pointers. Thanks
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