Hello everyone,
My husband and I attended a home exhibition today featuring a local timber house builder (Schleswig-Holstein) and there we learned about the Vestaxx window heating system.
Is there anyone here who has experience with the Vestaxx window heating?
At first, it sounds unusual to have the heating integrated into the windows. For the triple-glazed windows, a nanotechnology-based, invisible layer is applied to the inner surface of the innermost pane, which warms the glass up to 40 degrees Celsius (104°F) via infrared and heats the room. The warmth actually felt very comfortable, and the windows were completely cold on the outside (today’s temperature was below 10 degrees Celsius (50°F)). Allegedly, the Vestaxx window heating transfers 92% of its heat to the room, and the Technical University of Berlin has tested this Vestaxx window heating system and rated it positively. It appears to have been on the market only recently.
Overall, I find this quite interesting. It is significantly cheaper than other heating systems, allows individual control of each room, and unlike underfloor heating, it is very responsive.
Of course, this only makes sense in a low-energy house (the timber builder mainly constructs 40+ standard homes), as the system runs on electricity. In that case, the Vestaxx window heating is said to consume very little power.
This is my impression from the expo; of course, they want to sell the system.
What are your experiences with Vestaxx? Have you heard of this system before? Could it be an alternative to conventional heating? Does it have a future?
My husband and I attended a home exhibition today featuring a local timber house builder (Schleswig-Holstein) and there we learned about the Vestaxx window heating system.
Is there anyone here who has experience with the Vestaxx window heating?
At first, it sounds unusual to have the heating integrated into the windows. For the triple-glazed windows, a nanotechnology-based, invisible layer is applied to the inner surface of the innermost pane, which warms the glass up to 40 degrees Celsius (104°F) via infrared and heats the room. The warmth actually felt very comfortable, and the windows were completely cold on the outside (today’s temperature was below 10 degrees Celsius (50°F)). Allegedly, the Vestaxx window heating transfers 92% of its heat to the room, and the Technical University of Berlin has tested this Vestaxx window heating system and rated it positively. It appears to have been on the market only recently.
Overall, I find this quite interesting. It is significantly cheaper than other heating systems, allows individual control of each room, and unlike underfloor heating, it is very responsive.
Of course, this only makes sense in a low-energy house (the timber builder mainly constructs 40+ standard homes), as the system runs on electricity. In that case, the Vestaxx window heating is said to consume very little power.
This is my impression from the expo; of course, they want to sell the system.
What are your experiences with Vestaxx? Have you heard of this system before? Could it be an alternative to conventional heating? Does it have a future?
KingJulien4 Oct 2022 19:27Christian 65 schrieb:
When it comes to the resulting responsibilities, you are really far back regarding the ongoing costs. Which ones are those? You mean the children (because of the dream partner and a bottle of wine and things like that)?
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Christian 654 Oct 2022 19:35Exactly, heating costs are then pedantic.
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Christian 654 Oct 2022 19:36Autocorrect.
Compared to that, heating costs are just peanuts.
Compared to that, heating costs are just peanuts.
KingJulien4 Oct 2022 19:54So, to summarize:
A window heating system is absolutely necessary because you can only afford either photovoltaics or a heat pump (and if someone can actually afford both, the heating system will just break down).
And with fan heaters, you simply end up with too many issues (phew, just the CO2 footprint from those alone).
A window heating system is absolutely necessary because you can only afford either photovoltaics or a heat pump (and if someone can actually afford both, the heating system will just break down).
And with fan heaters, you simply end up with too many issues (phew, just the CO2 footprint from those alone).
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WilderSueden4 Oct 2022 22:43I see, we simply ban heat pumps, require photovoltaic systems everywhere, and only allow space heaters. That way, we quickly solve the demographic problem, and pensions will finally be as secure as they were back when everything was better.
WilderSueden schrieb:
I see, we’ll just ban heat pumps, require photovoltaic systems everywhere, and only allow electric fan heaters. That way, we’ll quickly solve the demographic problem, and pensions will finally be as secure as they were back when everything was supposedly better.I’m currently expecting a child and don’t have either window heating or fan heaters, so now I’m not sure what to do. However, the windows in our transitional house are so poor that you could call them window cooling. Is that even possible?
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