Heat pump is not compatible with a water-bearing fireplace

I would really give the heating engineer who screwed this up that badly a piece of my mind. Imagine a doctor amputating the leg instead of stitching the laceration on the head, that's roughly how off the mark the guy who calls himself a heating engineer was. But well, I'm currently experiencing something similar. Tilers who firmly grout expansion joints, heating engineers who place the buffer tanks half on tiled and half on untiled floors, and electricians who puncture membrane boxes with empty conduits – nowadays all quite normal, says the expert.

I wish you lots of good nerves!

Honestly, I have to bite my tongue so often when people voluntarily get things that just don't fit their situation. Sure, I grew up in a 1950s house where we had a potato bin in the pantry cellar and the potatoes would last for months. But you couldn't store anything else there, especially nothing that could rust.

And once again, I have to say: energy is still way too cheap. If we continue to do such absurd things (or can afford to) like the slavish bundling of heat and air, then I have to say: for some people, the kWh must cost at least 30 euros (and for any form of energy!) so that people start thinking about how sensible what they are doing really is.

Energy is not a private good and the consequences of its use are more public than anything else is public. Therefore, the public certainly has an interest in rules - which ones those are is to be discussed. "Not give a damn" is obviously incorrect here.