Better Planet was contacted by Mr Young who had planning permission to convert a barn to a dwelling. He was interested in finding a heat pump solution in combination with underfloor heating and solar PV.
As there was plenty of land available, we proposed a ground source heat pump solution with horizontal ground collectors.
The heat pump is located in a garage and connected to the main house with buried pre-insulated pipes.
After we had installed the heat pump and the underfloor heating, Mr. Young instructed us to install a 3.4 kWp solar PV system using 10 all-black panels from LG and an inverter from Solis. A special roof mounting system allowing fixing onto the zinc roof without penetration was used.
Location: Suffolk
Project Summary:
All black solar PV panels were fitted on the garage roof.
In this case, the property heat loss was 10.6 kW and we specified:
- A Nibe F1155-12kW ground source heat pump, single phase, variable speed compressor
- A 500-litre heat pump cylinder
- A buffer tank
- 4 x 200 m ground collector loops, laid at a depth of 1.2 meters, 1 meter apart
- A ground manifold
- Flow and return pipework connecting the manifold with the heat pump
- Glycol as required
- An electric meter as required by MCS
- MCS certificate and building control notification
Testimonial:
“I was delighted with Better Planets service from project design to completion. Professional and friendly all the way.
Mr Young
I am now contemplating to add a passive cooling module to the system to get cooling in the summer.”
