Dear all,
I am currently facing a delivery issue with my heat pump (Vaillant Arotherm Plus VWL 75/6), which is not available from any dealer and according to the manufacturer will likely only be delivered in calendar week 6 of 2022. With winter approaching and my heating technician now using his instantaneous water heater at another customer’s place, the situation is becoming quite problematic. He is offering me a 5 kW (kilowatt) fan heater as a temporary solution, but I’m concerned that this will lead to very high energy costs.
For this reason, I have come up with the idea of getting a readily available monoblock heat pump to use just as a temporary measure until my Vaillant arrives. There seems to be a Panasonic model (probably from the series of the well-known and widely recommended “Geisha”) which appears to be suitable and is available at a reasonable price (around 3500 EUR). I would then resell it afterwards.
However, since the market for used heat pumps is rather small, I wonder whether this will really be cheaper than heating electrically with direct heating for three months. I have roughly calculated that in the worst case, I would have to expect heating costs of 2500-3000 EUR with electric direct heating (depending on extent and weather conditions).
Does anyone here have experience with this?
@Benutzer200, if I remember correctly, you once installed a Panasonic unit? Did you happen to sell it later on?
Well, I hope someone has faced a similar problem and can share their experience.
Kind regards
Tolentino
I am currently facing a delivery issue with my heat pump (Vaillant Arotherm Plus VWL 75/6), which is not available from any dealer and according to the manufacturer will likely only be delivered in calendar week 6 of 2022. With winter approaching and my heating technician now using his instantaneous water heater at another customer’s place, the situation is becoming quite problematic. He is offering me a 5 kW (kilowatt) fan heater as a temporary solution, but I’m concerned that this will lead to very high energy costs.
For this reason, I have come up with the idea of getting a readily available monoblock heat pump to use just as a temporary measure until my Vaillant arrives. There seems to be a Panasonic model (probably from the series of the well-known and widely recommended “Geisha”) which appears to be suitable and is available at a reasonable price (around 3500 EUR). I would then resell it afterwards.
However, since the market for used heat pumps is rather small, I wonder whether this will really be cheaper than heating electrically with direct heating for three months. I have roughly calculated that in the worst case, I would have to expect heating costs of 2500-3000 EUR with electric direct heating (depending on extent and weather conditions).
Does anyone here have experience with this?
@Benutzer200, if I remember correctly, you once installed a Panasonic unit? Did you happen to sell it later on?
Well, I hope someone has faced a similar problem and can share their experience.
Kind regards
Tolentino
No. The heating technician spoke with Vaillant again on Friday and pointed out "my problem." Actually, I should be billing the heating technician for the increased heating costs, so that he can claim them back from the wholesaler and Vaillant. But I don’t want to damage the good relationship, especially since I know it’s not his fault. If I could somehow deal directly with Vaillant, I would. They’re still advertising their heat pumps on Berlin radio, which is quite ironic.
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Hausbau 556 Feb 2022 15:04Hello Tolentio, has anyone commented on the delivery status? Or is your heat pump already running?
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Hausbau 556 Feb 2022 19:17Tolentino schrieb:
No, not yet.
Let's see what the heating engineer says tomorrow.Our little house is completely finished, we could move in ... if it weren’t for the delivery delays with the heat pumps from Vaillant...There is supposedly some progress now.
The heating engineer wrote the day before yesterday that, according to the supplier, delivery will take place within the next three weeks. Today, he checked with other suppliers; one has immediate availability, but for 500 EUR more. I said go ahead with that.
Somehow, a voice inside me wonders why I have to bear this cost now, but I just want to get it over with!
The delivery is scheduled to arrive at the heating engineer’s on Friday and to be installed at my place on Tuesday.
Now only the electrician is missing!
The heating engineer wrote the day before yesterday that, according to the supplier, delivery will take place within the next three weeks. Today, he checked with other suppliers; one has immediate availability, but for 500 EUR more. I said go ahead with that.
Somehow, a voice inside me wonders why I have to bear this cost now, but I just want to get it over with!
The delivery is scheduled to arrive at the heating engineer’s on Friday and to be installed at my place on Tuesday.
Now only the electrician is missing!
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