TIL that #solarPanels also have bad consequences :D

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@tk honestly, ironing clothes is less of a chore than vacuuming :D (we usually do it a bit at a time with a rechargeable vacuum)

(and baking, considering a number of food restrictions, would have required too much prep time, ending up happening after the peak of electricity production)

(heat pumps for water heating have been postponed to “when we can save a bit more money for it, and hopefully the prices will have gone down a bit, because right now all of the quotes we're getting are (probably oversized but) extortionate”)

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@tk (water heating was / is integrated with heating water for the radiators, and changing *that* would have required too much work and expense. the quote for an air-water heat pump were, as I said, extortionate, so we added air-air heat pumps, but they are sized to work *together* with the radiators, not instead of them)

(one day we'll have a fully electric house, but it will need to happen through gradual changes)

(and yesterday, since the sun was shining and there was some warm wind, it was a bit too warm to turn on the heating anyway)

[tk@sunmine.de]

@valhalla we are currently in the transition to a air to water heat pump, but warm water will be a seperate heat pump ( you get a 200L tank for around 1600-2000€ plus install here).
The heat pump for radiator heating was around 4k€ without install

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@tk here the quote was for about 25k€, plus an unknown expense to change the electrical wiring to get three-phase current, plus having to pay more for electricity (because three-phase) and not being able to afford solar panels for years

or we could start with the solar panels and start saving money on electricity and save it for more electrification later

it wasn't a hard choice :)