Re:Large-scale ‘sand battery’ goes online in Finland
by com2kid on Thursday July 07, 2022 @11:11AM
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Hydronic heating system[1] (hot water running under the floors) that was incompetently installed. No expansion tanks, wrong pipes used (no oxygen barrier so oxygen seeped in and rusted the cast iron pump), pressure wasn't balanced, just tons of issues.
My current house's HVAC system was also done piss poorly in places and there can be a 15 degree difference between rooms, so that's going to be 10k+ to fix. Fun times.
[1]Despite the obscene maintenance costs, the luxury is worth it. Warm floors are really nice!
Something’s wrong here. I’ve only seen 1 partial failure (a refrigerant leak reduced efficiency by 5x, but the AC still worked) in the last 15 years across several houses. You’ve got an order of magnitude more failures.
Do you live on a boat? :P