Heating not available - Who bears the costs?

Oh dear MisterD seems to do a lot of business with America. Squeezing customers, suppliers, and employees until you have such poor quality and such a bad reputation that you can only compete on price ;)

But it also has a lot to do with the fact that the installers just run through their program and, when it comes to cooling, they install this and that just like always and insist on it – either like this or not at all. With such tightly scheduled appointments and jobs, they don’t have the leisure to think through individual solutions every time. For the cooling, the brine would even have been drilled deeper in our case and it would have been grouted with higher-quality cement. Whether that was really necessary, no idea. The installation distances would also have been closer specifically for the cooling. In my eyes, that is unnecessary for the cooling function – but it would have done the heating function a lot of good. I only found out about that afterward. The underfloor heating had already been installed by then. Some people therefore put a lot of effort into the cooling function. The benefit is questionable, but that quickly leads to high additional costs. But it can also be done differently. Friends paid exactly 500€ extra for the cooling function. I wouldn’t have hesitated for that. That’s how every installer does their own thing and doesn’t deviate from it.

all nonsense to squeeze more money out of the end customer who has no idea.

But it also has a lot to do with the fact that the installers just run through their program and when it comes to cooling, they simply install this and that as always and insist on it - either like this or not at all. With such tightly scheduled appointments and orders, they don't have the leisure to think through individual solutions each time. For the cooling in our case, the brine would even have been drilled deeper and grouted with higher quality cement. Whether that was really necessary, no idea. The installation distances would also have been closer specifically for the cooling. In my eyes, that's unnecessary for the cooling function - but it would have done the heating function a lot of good. I only found out about that afterwards. By then, the underfloor heating was already installed. So some put a lot of effort into the cooling function. The benefit is questionable, but that quickly results in high additional costs. But it can also be done differently. Friends paid exactly 500€ extra for the cooling function. I wouldn't have thought twice about that. That's how every installer does their own thing and doesn't deviate from it.

And you believe all those fairy tales?:rolleyes: Strictly speaking, with cooling via "brine," the drilling could be less extensive, due to regeneration of the ground.

I say that I doubt it. But at the moment many craftsmen still are in the comfortable situation of just doing their thing. Why make every special egg on customer request when I can just as well do my standard routine. The customer can just find another craftsman otherwise.

A small update:

Since Wednesday, the originally planned S1255-6 is in the house. Ordered in March.