How complicated are heat pumps in practical operation?

The most important factor when it comes to getting used to something is probably the factor called government, also known as wife

You understood the subtext of my question excellently. :D

Quote wife: it’s crap, back in the day you could also dry a cloth or clothes on the radiator. And rooms could be quickly adjusted in terms of temperature.

We also had that when switching to underfloor heating in our terraced house, it was gas - not a heat pump-specific phenomenon.

No, let's leave it like that, it’s all good, it’s not the ventilation, that’s all fine. I keep the windows tilted open because then a different kind of oxygen comes in.

My wife is English and apparently so used to drafty houses that tilting the window seems vital to her survival. Since I don’t want another wife, I put up with it instead of wearing down our relationship over it. She also tolerates some quirks of mine.
A "different kind of oxygen" sounds funny, I agree with : outside air often smells irresistibly good. We live at the edge of the forest and have a bit of garden. I don’t want to miss the quality of the outside air, so as soon as the temperatures are high enough, we have 8m of living room windows open to the garden so that there is no difference between inside and outside air anymore.

Since she figured out how to set the controlled residential ventilation to manual and run it at the highest level, she does it regularly and is resistant to time-programs/automation of the system.

That would probably be the same with us if we had controlled residential ventilation.

Just a quick reminder: the inertia of underfloor heating and the special features of controlled residential ventilation have nothing to do with heat pumps. I'm just saying because otherwise some cross-heater might be reading along and get the idea that with a heat pump you always have to leave the windows tilted open and towels don’t dry :eek:

Finally, someone says it – it seems to me that the forum is flooded with too many heat pump threads… no wonder you can get confused :cool:

Yes, smoke is smelled immediately. It has the "advantage" that you are the first to notice when you heat the oven incorrectly. And agriculture also comes through immediately. The good as well as the less good smells ;)

Finally someone says it - it seems to me that the forum is being flooded with too many heat pump threads... you can easily get confused :cool:

Don't be jealous - we still love you ;)

When I sniff directly at the grid, it always smells like "outside"

I’m just picturing that right now, how you enjoy nature......with your nose always right at the grid.....Awesome :D

Our cats do the same, so it probably has its reason for existence :)