Key Heating System Considerations For Home Renovations
When a renovation gets underway, it’s easy for the focus to land on the exciting visible changes. With walls coming down and floors being lifted, though, there’s a rare opportunity hiding underneath it all: the heating system. Here’s what to think about while the house is already open and ready for change.
Heat Pumps
Heat pumps have the greatest potential to increase building efficiency and create an opportunity for a low-carbon approach to your home heating system, which in our eyes makes them the best heating system for renovation projects. When choosing to install a heat pump during a home renovation, you can take advantage of the opportunity to upgrade both the insulation and the emitters associated with your renovated home. Air-source units are designed for continuous, lower temperature heat output, so they work best when you pair them with other heating system upgrades like those covered below.
Underfloor Heating
The fact that floor surfaces may be removed provides the opportunity to install an underfloor heating system. This type of system eliminates the need for large radiators in specific areas of the home by providing a comfortable, uniform temperature throughout each room you have it installed in.
Underfloor heating complements heat pumps very nicely. Most heat pumps function at their lowest operating cost when water is circulated at lower temperatures. When a heat pump is combined with an underfloor heating system, this results in a residence that is comfortably warm without significantly increasing its total energy consumption.
Once installed, an underfloor heating system is unobtrusive and does not limit your ability to plan the configuration of the remainder of your living spaces. You do not have to worry about wall placement or compromising on space.
Energy-Efficient Radiators
You can incorporate modern radiator upgrades into your renovation project. Older radiators are much less efficient than modern radiators. By replacing your older radiators with more modern aluminium designs that are more efficient, you will be able to maintain warmer homes at lower operating costs.
Piping Layouts
When walls are taken down and floors are pulled apart during a renovation, you get a rare chance to inspect and improve your home’s pipework. Pipe routing layouts, radiator positioning, zoned areas, manifolds for underfloor heating and several other areas that affect how your heating system operates can all be looked at and improved at this time.
Our Qual-Pex ML Pro pipe and fittings range is manufactured to the very highest standards and comes with a 50-year guarantee, allowing you to upgrade your piping with complete confidence. Building new pipework into your renovation design now avoids expensive costs and disruptive work later.
If you have any questions or want to talk to us about how we can incorporate these heating system upgrades into your home renovation project, then please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us. We’ll be very happy to help you with all of your home heating needs.