My facts: A rectangular bungalow, ground slab 13.5 by 10. No L, no U. Few window areas facing north, floor-to-ceiling windows only facing southwest, no basement, Ytong monolithic plastered, condensing gas heating plus solar thermal, underfloor heating, triple glazed, Rehau profiles, easily meets the Energy Saving Ordinance Standard 2016, to reach KfW 55, an air heat pump heating system and an exhaust air system for heat recovery would be necessary, solar thermal could have been omitted. The repayment subsidy does not offset the additional cost of the technology. The KfW interest rate was almost identical to that offered by the bank anyway, according to the general contractor the energy costs will not decrease monetarily, because although the air heat pump does not use gas, electricity consumption increases enormously. Only the one-time gas connection costs of 1500 at the gas supplier would be a positive.
Uncertain, however, he said, is the susceptibility to faults of the control technology in the pump systems, while solar thermal and condensing gas technology are well-tested, durable and not very prone to faults. That’s how I was advised.