Irishryan

I heat my hot water with an Air source heat pump. I bought it from the UK from Trianco, it is 3KW (output) but they do others at 5KW and 12KW for heating and hotwater. It cost around £1000 but I have since found a cheaper source. They have a site here:- http://www.trianco.co.uk/activair.cfm I fitted it myself and after an initial start up problem which a forum user sorted for me it work perfectly. It is very quiet at about 50 decibels and heats the water very very well. It has only been in for about two months so the savings are hard to calculate yet but I believe I am saving about 66% of my old electricity immersion consumption. I did have to fit a new multi coil cylinder but I needed a new one anyway. I could not have fitted solar because of the trees and the fact I work away a lot and the initial costs were a lot more. I intend using a woodburner to get rid of the tree problem and maybe add solar in the future and possibly an underfloor heating system. I saved a fortune buying a UK product, I could speak to the technical helpline and could understand the installation manuals. I lost out on some supposed tax breaks but saved a fortune by DIY install. It begs the question why are French ECO technologies twice the price of UK /Irish systems ?