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they used to be expensive.
And so installers were harder to come by, which means fewer people were told about it. Pretty easy to understand why it took a while to catch on.
Mine is air to water, so all you really need is someone who can plonk it there and then plumbers to do their stuff.
Vast majority of the work for mine was replacing the entire central heating system, but that would have been a good idea even if I wanted a gas boiler because of how old and shit it was.
Now my cat can sleep on top of the large double radiators around the house. Tbh that has to be one of the best features of it, flow temperatures low enough that a cat can comfortably sleep on it.
When i was trying to get a heat pump, i had to listen to a family friend hvac guy yell at me for 10 minutes cus he hates those damn things.
Ohhh I heard some of those! Got told that the heat pump alone would cost more than twice as much as I actually paid for a heat pump, all new radiators and replacing all the old pipework.
These cheap mini splits can be installed diy.
You vastly overestimate the capabilities of the average modern human being
That's incredibly short-sighted since they still paid for themselves.
Not for apartment dwellers.
Cool beans. Try being poor.