Well, I think so. It's a repeat (revisited?) of the one where a Dublin architect buys a 150 year old ruined church in Westport, and turns it into a family home with a shedload of wood.
Channel 4 @ 9pm.
-- Adrian
Heads up: Grand Designs tonight particularly good.
May 25, 2005
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And not an ounce of insulation. He must have lots of money top spend on oil.
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Got to get that energy rising up into the Heavens one way or the other. Oil fired or Hell fired.
-- Regards, Mike Halmarack
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He uses ground source heating, not oil
Rick
Oh yes, because ground source heating is free, you only need to connect a pipe to the hot spring...
In practice, electrically driven, under very optimistic assumptions, it might be half the price of gas/oil. Still bloody expensive.
On 25 May 2005, Ian Stirling wrote
As it's a second/vacation home, it presumably doesn't need full-level heating year 'round.
Still costs a fortune to heat with no insulation.
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Never mind Hell fired, I think he is the one heating hell! According to the program, it cost 10000 euro to install the ground heat system, but will pay for itself in 6 years. That's some heating bill!
Andrew
Well a normal heating system on a largeish place may approach 10,000 euro - about £6k
If you go for mains pressure tank decent boiler and fancy rads rather that 17 combis and whatever screwfix has on its 'rusted beyond belief' radiator section..;-)
I don't think you read my mail correctly. I wasn't commenting on the cost as such, but the fact that he said it would pay for itself in 6 years. That equates to a heating bill of =A31000/yr!
Andrew
cost as such, but the fact that he said it would pay for itself in 6 years. That equates to a heating bill of £1000/yr!
I think that's quite common. Ours would have been far in excess of that if I hadn't installed what seems like Seconds and Co's whole warehouse of Kingspan throughout the structure.
I don't think you read my mail correctly. I wasn't commenting on the cost as such, but the fact that he said it would pay for itself in 6 years. That equates to a heating bill of £1000/yr!
Andrew
Yep, mine is over £1000 per year, 3 bed 1930's semi
Regards Jeff
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