Good morning everyone,
I wanted to ask what your house’s electricity consumption is at night when everything is quiet and sleeping, so what is running continuously?
We have a newly built house, moved in summer 2019. Our building services include underfloor heating (air-to-water heat pump), controlled mechanical ventilation (runs at full power 3 times a day for 2 hours each, then reduced), a photovoltaic system, and otherwise the usual nighttime appliances (phone charger plugged into USB outlet, e-bikes charging occasionally, 2 TVs on standby, Alexas on standby, etc.).
At night, we have a continuous consumption of about 232W (with ventilation running at reduced power and when the heat pump is not producing). I can see this in the app for the photovoltaic system. From 0:00 to 6:30 a.m. we consume about 2.8 kWh.
How about you?
Best regards
I wanted to ask what your house’s electricity consumption is at night when everything is quiet and sleeping, so what is running continuously?
We have a newly built house, moved in summer 2019. Our building services include underfloor heating (air-to-water heat pump), controlled mechanical ventilation (runs at full power 3 times a day for 2 hours each, then reduced), a photovoltaic system, and otherwise the usual nighttime appliances (phone charger plugged into USB outlet, e-bikes charging occasionally, 2 TVs on standby, Alexas on standby, etc.).
At night, we have a continuous consumption of about 232W (with ventilation running at reduced power and when the heat pump is not producing). I can see this in the app for the photovoltaic system. From 0:00 to 6:30 a.m. we consume about 2.8 kWh.
How about you?
Best regards
chewbacca1236 Oct 2020 15:15Ybias78 schrieb:
And spending over €12,000 for that. As I said, nice to have...Absolutely, as someone with arachnophobia, it was worth the money just for that alone. The consistently fresh air inside the house is simply a dream.
You can still open windows and hear birds with a controlled residential ventilation system, right? No one is stopping you from doing that. But you don’t have to. Personally, I don’t want to let cold air into the bathroom every morning after showering or wait until the humidity is gone... and with 170m² (1830 sq ft) plus a finished basement, I definitely don’t want to constantly air out the less frequently used rooms. But I’m sure you also wash your clothes by hand... after all, a washing machine is pure luxury (-;
Snowy36 schrieb:
but you probably also wash your clothes by hand ... a washing machine is pure luxury anyway (-; However, there is a difference between saving 10–15 minutes a day by spending 10,000€ and saving 2 hours per load of laundry by spending 400€. When I look at the time required for ventilation, some household appliances perform much better in a cost-benefit analysis than controlled residential ventilation systems. Nowadays, everything is being automated at great expense. At the same time, more and more people go jogging or spend a lot of money at fitness centers because they don’t get enough physical activity.
chewbacca1236 Oct 2020 15:59I love the feeling of fresh air inside the house! I would definitely choose to install mechanical ventilation with heat recovery again.
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