Size Really Does Matter When It Comes to a Heat Pump!

From Everything Electric Show.

Is your heat pump too big? We revisited Judith Leary Joyce’s Victorian home in St Albans (featured on the channel last year) after she discovered her heat pump was oversized AND she’d been running it all wrong! The Everything Electric community spotted the problem before she did! Here’s what happened next.

Judith’s Retrofitting Journey Episode: https://youtu.be/2CvilBdkXMg
Leah Robson https://www.yourenergyyourway.co.uk/about-us
Judith’s Latest Book “What the Builder Won’t Tell You”: https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Builder-Wont-Tell-You/dp/0993077269

0:00 – Intro
1:00 – What "heat pump size" actually means
1:27 – Judith’s heat pump
3:56 – The fix: reinstating radiators & replumbing the system
4:24 – Why heat pumps need simplicity
4:57 – Oversizing vs undersizing
5:38 – How to actually run a heat pump
6:21 – The counterintuitive rule: switch it ALL on to save money
8:59 – Retrofitting numbers from 25,500kWh to under 6,000!
11:09 – Judith’s advice to others
12:15 – Concluding thoughts

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