My neighborhood (wollishofen) is a bit infamous for all of the old construction being torn down and being replaced with buildings like ours. But those old places are heated with oil, they're leaky wood construction, they have no option for cooling because there are no vents. Think buildings from the 1800s to early 1950s.
I didn't read the article - tired of all the American articles in the press promoting ac for some reason.
Separately, everybody I personally know (Northeast US) considers 26 C indoors to be hot (not warm - hot). It's amazing to me that people can feel temperature so differently.
Ductless mini split style heat pumps are a common retrofit option for older buildings without vents aren't they?
> I didn't read the article - tired of all the American articles in the press promoting ac for some reason.
When a heat pump is used for cooling it's effectively the same as an AC. The main difference AFAIU is that a heat pump can reverse for heating as well. I think when Americans promote AC they probably consider a heat pump to be just another AC variant.
Plus no one has wooden floors. We have cement/epoxy floors. Some neighbors have a wood laminate that's probably mostly epoxy. I don't think you can even get wood floors anymore here. Walls are cement/plaster. Ceilings too.i guess the doors are wood.
I have a gas fired hydronic heating system but I still need AC for cooling(mixture of traditional and mini-split style units due to retrofitting requirements).
I'm also located in a high altitude location but for AC alternatives here we would typically see something like a swamp cooler.
So it's actually a hydronic heating/cooling system? I don't think those systems are typically referred to as heat pumps generally.