Domestic heat pumps are devices that can be used for both heating (in the colder months), and cooling (in the warmer months), for residential use. Heat pumps have been used for some time now at industrial scale, in the refrigeration industry, to provide the cooling necessary for the storage of food products (refrigerators, freezers, cold […]
Where Does Heat Loss Occur in a House?
Most of the houses build before 1990s, are bad insulated, and if you live in a house that was build in 1980s for example, you probably don’t have more than 10-15 cm wall insulation. The thicker the layer on insulation, the lower the heat losses will be. Or at least this was the most well-known […]
The Most Important Lesson When Remodeling or Building a House
For the past 6 months I have been working spreading myself thin between remodeling a part of our house in Norway, working to finish my master dissertation paper and being a full time, stay at home dad. The house is now done, the paper finished, and as I contemplate the last six months I realize […]
The New Saw Dust Insulation Material
I am sitting here in the house my wife and I just bought, and I am surrounded by insulation material. The house is not new, which is why we are upgrading so many things about it. And to be perfectly honest I am procrastinating: I should be writing on my master thesis, but there is […]
What is the difference between a heat pump and an AC?
Air conditioning systems and domestic heat pumps are both a type of heat pumps. While the air conditioning systems work only on one mode, which is the cooling mode, the domestic heat pumps, can work both in cooling and heating modes. In fact, during cooling mode, there is not a big difference between the two […]
Is it cheaper to leave the heat pump on all day?
Heat pumps are a great way of reducing the energy consumption of a household, and thus reducing the electricity costs. Besides their obvious benefits, they became more and more popular in the past years, as people are more and more aware of the fossil fuels emissions ‘impact on our planet. Now, if you have already […]