Winter Heating

because of the huge problems in the power industry I was wondering how everyone heats their house. We do gas at the mo hoping to put a woodburner in before next winter. I can't help but wonder how all these people who were forced to put heat pumps in because of the greenie bollocks are going to keep warm this year because we are in for some serious blackouts if we don't get some more thermal generation.

I don't wanna offend anyone everyone is entitled to their own opinions.
Plus I have an insider in the industry and the govt is seriously not telling people the truth about just how bad it is.

Edited by Henna79

We took out our woodburner and put in a heat pump too. I love it to bits.

Not too worried about the winter dramas with power shortages. Not gonna stress and will deal with it if it happens.

And anyway, heat pumps are supposed to be more efficient using less power. So I don't really see an issue.

I have a fire and I LOOOVVVEEE it. It does help that we have free firewood so our heating doesn't cost us anything.

We have a heat pump and a fireplace as we have quite a large area to heat up.

We have a fire that really only heats the mat that is in front of it - find it very hopeless, we have a convection heater in the kitchen as it's quite a big area and another convection that goes into our room.

Our landlord has given us the ok to get a heat pump installed, so excited.

We did have a gas heater but I don't trust them, in fact I hate them. I made Dh throw ours away in the last inorganic collection. Without the regulator of course.

We have a woodburner and it does a great job. DH and FIL cut down a big tree in the garden this summer and it is all chopped up and drying out for winter. Woohoo!

We are in Chch and have a heat pump in the hallway, more for the bedrooms than living area and a woodburner in the lounge. Cos of the ECan greenie thing down here we will have to get our woodburner replaced, but we have an assessment in a month and just want to get a new low emission woodburner as we love having a woodburner and we are hoping to get underfloor insulation as well. Hopefully we can get it all paid for by the council, if we can get a community services card which we should be able to qualify since i am now not working and DH isn't on a great wage.

We put in the heat pump about 3 years ago and beefed up the insulation in the ceiling and put polythene down under the house, (which we did pay for ourselves) we have an old villa style house so it was cold and drafty and all the measures we have taken so far have helped the house heaps. The heat pump is great, we only really need the logburner in the middle of winter now. But we love having two sources of heating as well, so we are not totally reliant only on electricity or wood.

heat pump here and we love it. can also be used in summer to cool the house so even better

I know what you mean Cuppatea - I grew up in Newlands, in the clouds in Wellington. We had no form of central heating, and while we lived in a nice house, it really affected my asthma. It was shocking while growing up.

When I moved to the City and into a dryer house, it virtually went away!

Then, we moved up the Coast and into a house with a woodburner. This was so ineffective - in fact the only thing it really gave me was.....yep....bad asthma. Hence us ripping it out and investing in a heat pump. I have noticed since having it that we have no condensation, no mould on our windows sills and again, I have no asthma.

Because of my history (as well as the family history of it), I didn't want to expose Charlotte to any factors that could trigger it.

I heart my heat pump and we are looking at getting another down the end of the hall.