Bleeker
2019-08-13 00:05:15
- #1
Hello everyone,
we would like to build next year and are currently trying to find out which house would be right for us. Whether a solid house or a prefabricated house is still not decided (although I fear that the solid house will fail due to the budget).
So far, we have been advised by 2 major prefabricated house providers and one topic that surprised me a bit is the heating / ventilation.
Due to the airtight construction of the houses, controlled residential ventilation is now apparently indispensable, which I can somehow understand.
According to a consultant, about 95% of newly built single-family homes are now heated with heat pumps, which surprised me a bit, but I had never dealt with this in detail before.
I have already googled a bit about these systems but while some are completely satisfied with them, others deeply regret having decided on them because they are either cold in winter or have very high electricity consumption.
My concerns are as follows:
- Higher electricity consumption than projected
- Development of electricity prices in the coming years
- With air-to-air heat pumps, you are limited to this system; a later conversion to another energy source seems very complex
- With air-to-water heat pumps with underfloor heating, in the worst case you could later couple the underfloor heating with another heat source.
Is it really the case that with the current insulation standards the heat pump is the best solution for a prefabricated house?
In our conversations, the consultants hardly addressed other energy forms such as gas, pellets, or wood, even on request, which somehow makes sense since these would probably produce too much energy, right?
Are there still providers who build prefabricated houses without controlled residential ventilation and with conventional underfloor heating at all?
Thank you very much in advance for your help.
we would like to build next year and are currently trying to find out which house would be right for us. Whether a solid house or a prefabricated house is still not decided (although I fear that the solid house will fail due to the budget).
So far, we have been advised by 2 major prefabricated house providers and one topic that surprised me a bit is the heating / ventilation.
Due to the airtight construction of the houses, controlled residential ventilation is now apparently indispensable, which I can somehow understand.
According to a consultant, about 95% of newly built single-family homes are now heated with heat pumps, which surprised me a bit, but I had never dealt with this in detail before.
I have already googled a bit about these systems but while some are completely satisfied with them, others deeply regret having decided on them because they are either cold in winter or have very high electricity consumption.
My concerns are as follows:
- Higher electricity consumption than projected
- Development of electricity prices in the coming years
- With air-to-air heat pumps, you are limited to this system; a later conversion to another energy source seems very complex
- With air-to-water heat pumps with underfloor heating, in the worst case you could later couple the underfloor heating with another heat source.
Is it really the case that with the current insulation standards the heat pump is the best solution for a prefabricated house?
In our conversations, the consultants hardly addressed other energy forms such as gas, pellets, or wood, even on request, which somehow makes sense since these would probably produce too much energy, right?
Are there still providers who build prefabricated houses without controlled residential ventilation and with conventional underfloor heating at all?
Thank you very much in advance for your help.