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US apartment buildings have tipped toward heat pumps | The climate-friendly appliances are becoming the norm among American home builders. Here are the factors driving the shift. (www.canarymedia.com)
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[–] booscience@beehaw.org 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 hours ago

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.

[–] chrisashtear@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] chrisashtear@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

My other favorite thing was talking to this one hvac company that only did x brand heat pumps(dont remember), but could not provide performance specs on them. The company couldnt either. Aside from "this one is really quiet!"

So i went with carrier, which had perfornance specs for all their equipment, at multiple different ambient and desired temps.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

These cheap mini splits can be installed diy.

[–] booscience@beehaw.org 1 points 10 hours ago

You vastly overestimate the capabilities of the average modern human being