Can't believe you had to explain your personal hygiene routines 😂😂😂 I love to hear how much thought you give to all the work you carry out. Super impressive as always.
Ha, yes, sure that is a amerikan thing that "you have to have at least 2 one hours hot showers with bacteria killing chemichals and plenty blossom smellyes, or you are an animal!" What we still are ;-)
After living 12 yrs in Indonesia without a proper shower but a big tiled tank called ”bak mandi” in Indonesian , I can assure that I was just as clean and non smelling as any other person. You scoop water over yourself , use your soap, rinse off until you feel nice, clean and refreshed. People are sincearly entitled in their comments and I really don´ t think I would have given them an explanation.
My mother had very dry skin with rashes etc. She showered once or twice a day and slathered herself with moisturizing creams. I suggested she shower only once or twice a week. Surprise... her skin cleared up in a couple of weeks. No more creams etc. It's interesting that all these holistic people coat themselves in petroleum based (think gasoline) products😂
I'm retired and don't get dirty very often. Therefore I too do not shower every day....but I do clean my "Pots and Pans" ( as my grandma called them)! People need to keep their unsolicited opinions to themselves! You're going about your home in a unique and intelligent way! Thank you for taking your time and sharing with us. 🇺🇸
Sharing unsolicited opinions is free speech. Sharing free speech helps to develop ideas and through all that, some sort of truth can be arrived at. To deny the person the right to free speech is censorship. Accepting censorship as a right to quell opinions, leads to tyranny and we all know, ( or should know) the consequences of blind faith acceptance, no Q's asked or allowed, in particular, the last 2 1/2 years, has severely affected the course of history of the world and of every individual inhabiting it's surface. I know you mean well and you rush to defend not only yourself but also Kylie and Guy out of loyalty.
The showering situation wasnt a question to me and made sense without an explanation, not sure why people would be too concerned, its not like they can smell you 😅great video, thanx 🎉
Well, I got to say that towards the end of the recent videos I did notice body odor. Certainly it could not be mine (I do take a shower at least once as week). So, I am pretty sure the smell lingered from Portugal to here through my mobile phone.
Bravo to you! Yes, lets challenge the notion that we MUST shower daily. Like you, I do not shower every day - I use the appropriate method of cleaning needed for that day. A different way of thinking but lets be willing to challenge what we do and why we do it. Oh, and to question if the things we're doing serve our needs. Ok, I'm done.😶
Well said 😀 I like to challenge everything I’m told or believe every now and then .. too often we follow social practices without thinking if they are correct for us
You two are awesome. OMG I cannot believe anyone asked you about your comment about not showering everyday lol...geez hilarious. I love your videos. I am headed to Portugal in Dec to look for my farm. So I am watching and taking notes. Knowing you have people you trust that you worked with is very important. I do old home renovation. Presently finishing up a huge 1857 historic home that I will be selling for my move. And I work with referrals always. So this is great. Going to be partially off grid as well self sufficient. Your videos are very inspiring. I love how you two compliment each other. Cheers til next time. Thanx for the QandA. Gina in Upstate NY USA headed to Portugal
Was watching your videos from when you started the Renovation. You Both are INCREDIBLE.. I wish more people would have the FIRE in their bellies as you both have.. That whole Property is going to Stand Out when your done. A shining light in the Neighborhood. My hat goes off to you both. I am Envious.. 🍷
Love that you had to explain how to keep clean 😀. I am 68 and when I was a child nobody had a shower every day . I dont remember that people were stinky back then.
It’s always good to have videos from you both, even if it is to answer people that are worrying about how you smell, people take care of your own pits and don’t worry about anyone else, my god the energy people waste typing dribble just to complain, try being positive like these two wonderful people. 😂
I think you are the best and the cleanest 😂, love your videos, your house and yard work. You bring a lot of happiness and inspiration and hope to many people. Thank you! Hoping you get millions of positive comments to balance some strange comments :) I always look forward to your new ‘movie’ it is better than any Netflix stuff to me.
Well done for talking about showering daily something which seems to have become obligatory over the last few years and as you say doesnt mean there arent other ways to keep clean without using up precious water ie sinks and bidets . Great video as always
Great job guys and girls! Love the content you publish. Here in the nordic countries air-based heat pumps are very popular. They’re the 2nd most effective heat source (after geothermal heat) and therefore very cost-effective. Personally I think that you have made the right choice and I am sure that you will be satisfied in the future. With that in mind I personally believe that both the Australian and British they governments need to step up their games and promote more efficient heating sources instead of subsidizing gas or coal alternatives. I am fully aware that it is not always up to the individual to decide but to hold fast to traditional heat sources based on cultural tendencies seems to be the biggest hindrance to sustainable choices throughout Europe (if not the world)
BTW I have mini splits throughout our landmarked BKLN limestone and the 2 heat pumps are mounted out of eyesight on the back wall at ground level , the refrigerant and drain pipes all run inside interior walls to the various head units. 😀 Eric.
Continue to enjoy your journey . People who are shocked about no daily showers surely haven’t lived in Australia during droughts . I have bucketed children’s bath water into washing machine and then had it (with adapter on hose be put on trees and garden I bet the cats would love to be lying on that cool floor.
I like the way you explain "common" subjects, because I believe we all comment from observations, knowledge and to some extent also our prejudice while not fully understanding the "where, why and how". The questions we ask are solidly based in our own climate, experience, and again how "our world functions" - or maybe how it used to function. Living in a northern climate (me) with not a lot of reliable sun for 60-70%+ of the year, other heating/cooling fuels are needed - like wind, geothermal, whatever fossil fuel runs a generator, old-school knowledge like a mass-oven generating and retaining heat, extra insulation or plain running on municipal heating and/or electricity.. So we all learn and have our "Oh, that is why" from your solutions and also your crucial explanations as to the what/why/how, and I thank you for that. Side note: If you need to ask why someone would not take a bath every day, you might benefit from a look in the mirror and ask your self: Why would I take a full bath today? If your are meeting people at a professional (i.e. work or similar) level, bath away to meet own and other peoples expectations - but if you take a full bath and then just to get "equally" dirty in 10 seconds, I see no reason to do anything but an "etage vask", meaning a wash/clean of areas creating moisture/heat/odors - and then an "appropriate" change of clothes. PS: I have floor heating based on municipal heating and a heat-pump running on grid-electricity, so infrastructure-wise I am far from what your setup is in Portugal, but I like your approach and will look for similar solutions or projects in my retirement home!
Oh for goodness sake,surely personal hygiene is exactly that,personal, I watch you guys for your knowledge and insights, thank you for all you are teaching me.
We seem to have a showering fetish in the US. As you point out, a shower is useful when you need a whole-body cleaning and to wash your hair, but it's not necessary every day. When I was growing up we did not have a hot water heater. Once a week or before a special event, we heated water on the kitchen stove in two big aluminum buckets and used them in the bathtub, one for washing and one for rinsing. On days in between, we heated a small amount and used a washcloth to clean all the vital parts. I don't think we smelled bad.
I think that same fetish extends to the UK and Australia. Personal choice of course, but the inbetween washes work well for us. I think I (Kylie) picked up the new habit after living/working in a couple of developing countries where water was fetched not just available from a tap
I use a small amount of water to just "get the dust off" and shower when I know it's necessary. Don't you just love the internet? Personal, private habits under scrutiny, what's with that? That system looks interesting, the engineering is great.
I DO NOT take a bath or shower everyday. Wash, yes...full waste of a lot of water just to rinse off, no:) More power to ya for doing your life YOUR way!
Appreciate your attempt to explain your hygienic practices but if anyone makes a comment its really none of thier business. Just keep doing your great renovations and sharing your humor with us.
Great explanation for all the questioners, but my main (totally incidental, I know) observation was the stunning finish on your plastered walls there in the utility room. Gratz to both of you on that and so much more.
I did wonder about the daily shower issue in that I thought 'I bet that brings in some comments'. I like to wash the dust off my skin and out of my hair after doing dusty work, and before getting into bed. I find that the easiest and quickest way to complete this task is by showering. If you can keep yourselves comfortably clean without daily showering then that's up to you. In two years living as an aid worker in Sudan decades ago I survived very well using a wash cloth and a bucket of water. A shower or bath is not a daily essential. A thorough wash of the whole body each day is perfectly possible, as you describe.
I heard of a chap who came up with a novel cooling system in a property like yours. He dug a ditch about 3' deep 200yds long along his driveway. Then he installed a large pipe, 6" or 8" dia, all the way along the ditch (open at the far end). The end of the pipe was introduced to the house and was fitted with a low speed fan. The fan drew air along the pipe, which was cooled to around 55-60F. Minimal cost to run, and a simple and very effective way of getting cool, fresh air into the house.
I really don’t think it’s anyone’s business and I don’t think you should have to explain what you do or don’t do, I don’t shower everyday, I was myself as well, morning and night and when you have not done nothing and you not got so dirty it’s stupid to use lots of water, people need to stop and remember the earth is being killed by us and water will run out if we keep over using everything, OMG I could go on and one, I’m feeling bit angry about some of the remarks people said about you both, your hard working people living in a camping site while you build your home, I would like to see some people live the same and work so hard, you are great guys love you to bits your doing a great job.
The heating system sounds amazing. I can't wait to hear your thoughts after living with it after this winter. Seems like a well thought out design and I enjoyed learning more.
*Kia ora (hello) Kylie & Guy, Wow people really criticised your showering habits... we sure are living in a different world now-a-days. Beside all that, thanks for the Q&A video explaining all the other stuff. Keep on doing what you are doing, as I am enjoying all your mahi (work) that you are doing on and around your property/home. NZ*
Thanks for communicating to us the shower issue Doesn't matter..your personal preference My gracious..!!!.. Wonderful explanation of your living and working In your new home !!@ And the new products you're introducing into your wonderful home They are great educational videos Thanks from ms
Guy; for mini-split systems, at least with Mitsubishi, you can have up to 3 indoor units all connected to a single outdoor unit. The outdoor unit can be mounted remotely (could be on the same wall as your heatpump). Then you only need to connect the copper linesets and communication wiring from the outdoor unit to each indoor unit. This keeps the exterior of the building uncluttered as you mentioned. I have a system like this in out 4 story rowhome. The outdoor unit is up on the roof and the indoor units are down on the first floor; a distance of around 40 feet. Each indoor unit can be controlled individually. The only other requirement for the indoor units is a provision to drain the condensate which can go through the exterior wall (very small drain tube) or connected to any nearby plumbing drain line.
Interesting and informative follow-on. Having lived here in a stone house for a short while now I have observed that the internal thermal cycle while heavily moderating the outside temperature cycles does so with a delay of approximately 12 hours. This means that while the house stays cool in the day the solar heat going into the walls appears on the inside peaking at 1am to 4am in the morning (or night depending on how you view that time). This gives one two options when running on solar, use the solar pv energy to chill the inside during the day so it balances out at night and you can sleep. Or; use stored solar energy at night to actively cool where you want to sleep starting at about 10pm. I hope that makes sense. Anyway keep up the good work 👍
We notice the same thing upstairs, the walls definitely release heat during the early hours while we’re sleeping. We don’t have so much of an issue downstairs and I think that’s because the walls get less direct sun and are thicker. Upstairs may require some more creative solutions, but we’re hoping underfloor cooling can work there too
Hi Guys, thanks for all the videos. As a fun and someone interested in the subject, I highly recommend checking out the HeatGeek youtube channel. They explain all heating-related questions very well. It's a shame that most general public is not properly educated (you guys have done the research properly) on how to operate their own heating systems regardless of type.
We’ve watched many of their videos in the run up to deciding on our solution (and bearing in mind their experience is exclusively from the UK). Particularly enjoyed the battle between 2 channels 😂
Love and looking forward to your beautiful show. 2 comments: in such houses, with or without the nice system you have installed, the lower parts of the house, as you go down, are significantly less warm. The issue in warm countries is not only the heat but significantly the humidity and to tackle this only an aircon (even only a small portable) is needed.
Interesting perspective on life in Portugal. We, here in the UK, had an ASHP for 8 years and have had it replaced with a gas boiler. Now, even in winter, we are warm.
Great followup video, we're so far behind you with our renovation that I'll be using a lot of your ideas! I'm curious as to whether you could connect your system to solar water panels on the roof of your house at all? It wouldn't work for us here in Normandie but maybe Portugal would be ideal? Keep up the great work on your videos, they are the most detailed, comprehensive and informative out of all the renovation channels.❤
Our friends run all their UFH and AC units from one HP. Our builder is going to run pipes and cables for AC (but not fitted initially as he doesn’t think a super insulated house needs them). We are going to live in the house for a year or two to see if we do.
I would LOVE to have 21ºC in my apartment without any A/C system. Now we have 27ºC with our shit system (rented apartment, so we cannot invest as we did in our Sicilian house). I think this house is G Class, and obviously the neighbors didn't take the chance of upgrading through the Eco-Bonus in Italy (cheap Ligurians). Nice to see everything's going slowly as planned. Cheers!
yep to the temp. It is currently running at 37 outside here in the ariege; and inside temp is 20-21 constantly. We have air source heat pump and well insulated house.
😂🙈 I anticipated the deluge of opinionated questions regarding hygiene, the minute you mentioned not showering daily 😳 I reckon, the ones asking, are the same ones to comment about not wearing gloves when cooking 🙄 The same ones that won't survive without.... (dare I say?) their showers and gloves, when push comes to shove!? 🙃 Well handled. Looking forward to your next full video 🏡 😍🙋🏻♀️
@@MAKEDOGROW Yes!Single-use flimsy plastic ones for serving. They're sold by the 100s/box at reasonable cost, so that you can change it after every service run. They look like what you'd typically find in a box of hair dye, but sold in different sizes, SML. Then, there's the multiple-use, rubber-smelling (my opinion) latex gloves (similar to surgeon's gloves), which I assume, is used for prepping. But, invariably, you find servers using the latex ones and I've yet to see them changing gloves, inbetween services...!? 🤔 Go figure! 🙃
Thanks, it was a good way to answer all our questions about the heat pump, and yes, you did answer my question about air conditioning. It was great to hear the answers to other questions, too. So, thumbs up to this forum! Cheers, Judy
Mr cool sell a mini split with one outside unit and up to 5 inside units that mount on the ceiling also comes pre charged so you just hook the lines together
Loved the video but I can't believe that people get that personal about your hygiene. I would have thought that people would have known about washing..... unless..... they don't wash. Enough said I think. Thanks for posting a bonus video.
I had a house in sunny Brazil with a hot non-isolated loft that radiated a lot of heat to the rooms below it. I learned that it really needs very good isolation. I was also considering to put a separate cooling for the loft by installing an extractor fan on one side of the loft and an air inlet at the other side of the loft. I never did this because the house was a rental but this might be the cheapest and most effective solution in the summer.
Dr Bronner of Dr Bronner products never bathed or showered. Fascinating documentary on him showing his cleansing routine using his wonderful castile soap. FYI I love the hemp almond. You probably haven't had occasion to use the underfloor heating. You folks are amazing.
I rarely comment on any of my UA-cam subscriptions. If I subscribe it's because I enjoy. I appreciate the time you give, mostly free barring a few ads, and that is fair exchange. How you choose to live away from the camera is not my business or anyone else. People criticising your personal hygiene need barring, not responding to. There are plenty of the type of channel that sort of person likes on UA-cam, I've avoided quite a few myself! Perhaps the critic would like to share their channel here, and we can all look. But I doubt they have one, they would have to lead a life of interest to others for that to happen. You will never please them, best to ignore and block.
Dad was in the Navy and a sink/bucket of water, soap and washcloth was always called a sailor's bath at our house...used in the same circumstances as yours, including when some aspect of the plumbing was on the fritz. (And no folks, I looked it up...that phrase derives from the German word fritzen and likely was used as a pun in an old comic strip (The Katzenjammer Kids) that may have popularized it pre-WWI.) Signed, Fletch's mom
Ich finde das System gut, es ist nachhaltig und für den Süden ohne - Temperaturen perfekt Ich denke der Schwachpunkt am Haus ist noch das Dach und vielleicht 😅 die Fenster Aber wir lernen das man auch mit Kompromissen gut leben kann Grüße von Madeira
I wonder how effective this Legionnaires disease control is? Not just this model of hot water system but in general. I know we have a regular control but in the years that it has been installed in our multi-residential Apartment Block, there has only been one test taken, last year, from my apartment. So often it is a matter of trust placed in the level of ability and interpretation of the laboratory/science/technology/ technicians. So great to see you actually putting into practice to this degree, water conservation. I'm convinced if cities became as dedicated as you both to the reasonable utilization of water then there would be such an impact for the positive on the demand for water. P.S. It is not only an "eco-sustainability " question but also a health question: how much "clean" is necessary and whether or not "clean" can be excessive and damaging to the human organism?
Whenever I hear people reacting shocked (or something else) about not showering every day, I think about my grandparents. They were born a few years before 1900. Living in a house in the city, they had the luxury to have a washroom/bathroom outside in the backyard. A wooden structure with some glass, hot in summer but very cold in winter. Any washing was done there. There was only a bath (showers did not exist or were very rare before world war 2), amits the washing machine and other stuff. A bath was taken once a week maximum because no one could afford the cost of filling that more regularly with hot water for every family member. That was actually mostly still the infrastructure when I grow up in that same house. We, the kids, washed ourselves daily at the sink to a limited extent and then had our weekly Saturday bath. We did not stink or were especially dirty. Let's not forget our ancestors did not even had a bath and still managed to survive. And no, even today you do not need to shower really every day (unless you have a job that is very physical), you will not die skipping a day.
You know some people think that in spain we use the bide instead of the shower, we don't. We use both especially in summer, so you can clean feet, intimate parts etc saving water
Seems like a great system for the ground floor heating/cooling, but I still don't see how it cools the upstairs during those 40 degree weeks typical in a Portugal summer. I get that hot air rises for the winter, but that cool air in the summer likely gets "trapped" in the ground floor. Also, curious how you sleep in that tent during the hot summer without a mini-split or some other way to cool it down to be comfortable. All the best !
Make.Do.Grow. educates, helps & entertains -- and now, Guy & Kylie, you've even created new use for the phrase "the "S" word" 😊 In all seriousness, just so delighted for you having hot water & heat after years, literally, without👍
Just a thought. Wouldn't you save on heating if your boiler was kept separately from your shower boiler and keeping it a closed circuit? In other words, having two boilers. That way the closed circuit stays warmer for longer as no cold water gets added and seeing that you guys don't shower so often, your warm water boiler also stays warmer for longer. Great video btw.
Using an exterior heat pump to heat water for floor heat is unusual in the US. I don't know why, probably because few homes have heated floors. (BTW, this is the most COMFORTABLE type of heating !) Wood burner is an excellent back up. With some extra plumbing if refrigerant lines, you could install cooling (A/C) air handlers. It would take a "smart" controller to switch back and forth for making domestic hot water and cooling during the same season.
Brazilians showers at least once everyday! It's kind of a joke in our culture, 😂😂 Sometimes, twice or more times. But we do live in a very hot country. We just take this habit everywhere...
Hey you two, can you give (a) an update on the well wall restoration and (b) a general garden/farm update please. Is almost 10c in Adelaide tonight - so brrrrrr
We call it a top and tail!! I usually set my water temp to 50deg C as it’s then hot enough for dish washing and hot shower if I want hot ish. But hv tried 48deg occasionally and it feels a little Luke warm for dishes. But no idea on how economical it is to run at that temp constantly.
'Top and tail' - obvious and good one. Also saw it referred to, here, as 'cleaning the pots and pans'. 'Pigeon bath' and more often, down our way, we call it 'doing the sign of the cross'. Wonder how they will handle sharing bath water....!? My sister once got the weirdest looks and people even moving away from her, when she observed that she doesn't need bath salts and oils, because, she doesn't bath...!!? 😳🤪 She neglected to add that she prefers to shower, because she can't stand lying in her own dirty water 😜 Besides, her en suite, only had a shower! People are weird. 😂
Its uneconomical to run HP's at a temperature over 35c. Often HP heating systems are designed to run hot because of price. IE it's a cheaper install to have a small engine at full revs than a larger engine at low revs. Once in they couldn't care how big your electric bill is against 'projected'. Its far better to have a local source of hot water at the kitchen sink such as an instant electric water heater or gas. than to run the whole system at a higher temperature just for the washing up..
Thanks for answering so many of my questions on here! With the meter thick walls we have during the recent heatwave I’ve noticed it’s beautifully cool in the house during the day. But once the outside starts cooling down the heat transfers from the walls into the house. That’s when passive cooling would be really effective, we have an old pigeon loft that I’m looking at utilizing for this… would be interested to learn more about your ventilation system?
Those of us who grew up on the Canadian prairie long ago with the Saturday night bath understand completely that daily showers are a modern western indulgence not an absolute necessity!
Hilarious, the questions about the not-daily shower😆. People do not realize that a shower was invented by people, God didn’t make it on day seven. During our travels we have been to many countries where people and tribes don’t have a bathroom, shower, washing sink or whatever. They did not smell, never! Maybe the human body has a self cleaning mechanism, by origin? Wish both of you the best, good luck with the great videos.
I can't believe someone would have the audacity to comment about your personal hygiene routine, which by the way you are correct about. One doesn't need a shower every day.
Kitten follow up video coming soon 😀 But, they are great (though very active) , we have just 2 left that we’re keeping … and one of the new owners brought one back for a visit and that kitten is also very happy and healthy looking 😃
Nice video. It was important because everyone has been waiting with baited breath for this much aclaimed heat pump system and *it's finally here.*. Okay. *there.*. LOL..
We’ve been monitoring the humidity for over a year now, well before we started plastering. With fresh plaster it hits just over 80% and then slowly comes down. I’d say 65-70% is the typical average … it’s a little lower upstairs
Excelente vidio só nao gostei das pessoas perguntarem se tomam banho todos os dias que absurdo . Eu acho que vai ficar um sistema de aquecimento de ar fresco excelente uma pessoa da minha familia tem esse sistema e está muito satisfeito. Fico à espera de mais vidios pois gosto muito e entao quando a casa estiver pronta entao é uma maravilha . God bless you thank you very much 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇵🇹
@@richardbartlett6932 sorry it looked like it would discharge at eye level if it did ever have to discharge. normally a pipe would be sent to outside via a tundish .
Daily showers are a _very_ recent activity. Until about 30 years ago, in the UK, most people took one bath a week and "strip washed" on the other days. Showers were not a common item in traditional bathrooms (hint in the name)
The old village women used to remark: "Well I've washed up as far as possible, and down as far as possible, and I feels better for it" The expected reply was "What has possible done to be left out" And that was considered a risqué joke at the turn of the 19th century. Not one for the vicar!
I’m not sure it has, but from memory it maxed out at 2.5kw during the commissioning. Our system can now handle 10k (and peak at 20k for about a minute)
Its interesting, I think, that my partner and I are re-renovating our Portuguese property after 10 years and posting Facebook updates almost daily and nobody, or few, are really interested in our endeavours even though Im 70 years and had several years of continuous serious injuries. Help is available from friends and neighbours, of course, when needed but Im always reluctant to ask because all are busy doing their own thing. Nobody really sees what we do for the local community because we are very discrete. One or two know because I've often used my skills to repair their electronics, or whatever, with no charge except for the parts used. We often give excess produce to the local day center for the elderly, but anonymously. We have closed our tourist business and instead of selling those things we do not need anymore and had our use of, we have cleaned them, made sure they are hygienic and given them away, as a way of recycling, to those even less fortunate than ourselves who may need it and can make use of it. I don't care about what people think of our endeavours and actions , it's all just about personal karma.
Your DHW gets heated via a heat exchanger, which means that you don't need to run the legionella cycles. DHW temperatures on my daikin hpsu (the previous model) are 48C in the winter and 44C in the summer months, since 2016.
I live in a cooler climate and ventilation systems are more or less standard for refreshing the air in the house. You briefly mentioned that it was around 70%RH in the utility room and a number of new ventilation systems would detect that and ramp up the air flow. But it seems that these systems take absolutely no notice of the external humidity. What is the point of detecting that it is 21C and 70%RH inside, ramping up the fan, and sucking in 18C 80%RH air to replace it? Now I know that some of these also measure CO2 concentration and then I'd say that it is fair to get fresher air indoors if the CO2 is high. Possibly not relevant to the Portugal lifestyle but I like my morning grumble 🙂
To be honest my eyebrows went up about the shower thing.And i had to say to myself " nut you dont bathe everyday lol.I wash off especially when i stay around the house not doing much.Of course going out and about I BATHE!! We actually forget ( im 63 years old) everyone didnt even have a inside toilet or shower. You pulled the tub out or washed off.It all depended on where you lived or what you could afford. Its just like A/C or heat everyone didnt have it.
Weekly Legionella cycle works quite well with my DAIKIN ECH2O / Altherma 3HHT - I run it at 48°C nominal with 8K hysteresis and 63°C legionella temperature Defrost is not weekly, it's multiple times a day, whenever there is a significant drop in power output due to ice buildup, depends on external temperatures and humindity, usually in the area of -5 ... +5°C external temperatur depending on your heat distribution system Cooling: Be carefull about the pipe insulation, otherwise you'll run into a mess with condensation And again: Change that mounting! Don't have it on the wall. You'll likely regret that mounting during cold phases. Move it to a proper ground standing console with vibration buffers. You'll not regret it.
Unfortunately I’m not an engineer so can’t provide a very technical answer, but basically one line absorb heat from the air and transfers it to the inside unit, the second line then returns to the outdoor unit after the heat has been transferred. Almost like flow/return of an underfloor heating system. Hope that helps
@@patriceogrady9763 think of it the other way, gives us an opportunity to share a different habit/behaviour that some people may never have considered 😃
I did question (in my own mind) the plastic covering still there - I'm the kind of people allergic to stickers, protective plastics etc. on anything and peel it off ASAP. Thanks for this clarification and (despite my dysfuncionality concerning wrappers and labels) fully understand. As a child - dont ask how long ago, before any of you where born - I grew up on the west coast of Sweden and my grandparents hade this big house where we spent the whole summer. But - during the summer the main floor was shut down and we lived in the basement (I assume you would call it) made of 3 by 2 ft granite blocks and the indoor climate was - as I recall it - just right. (if this makes any sense). All this only to support the cooling possibility, I know - I talk too much.. A/C-systems do lower the humidity level in the air, this is most visible as a vehicle/car with A/C being in operation (car being driven and then parked) it leakes - could call it marking territory but that would be pushing too far - condensed water, moisture or humidity whatever you call it. Do YOUR thing, it's YOUR house and YOUR life and I'm grateful having the possibility to follow doing what I guess many, many more would do. (Question of courage?)
Please explain how many sheets of toilet paper you use per visit and the cost to the environment. JOKE! As usual, all questions have been thoroughly well answered by you guys: I'm very much looking forward to the promised future electrical system description. Now, about your toenail clippings ...
Hello! I have an underfloor heating question for you - apologies I realise it’s probably a pretty stupid one! Will you also be putting in underfloor heating on your upper floor or using an alternate method? I’m watching closely as I’m moving to an old cottage in Wales soon and am hoping to install a heat pump + underfloor heating, but assume I’ll have to settle for radiators upstairs - partially because I don’t imagine I’ll have enough head height, but also I do worry about installing underfloor heating upstairs myself - it seems more of a precarious venture for a DIYer with little experience!
Yes, we will be installing underfloor heating upstairs, the same system as we used downstairs. Head height is an issue but we’ve found a method that consists of subfloor (15mm), screed with pipes (20-25mm) plus floor finishing. I think this is the minimum you’d need. The install isn’t too difficult but you need 2 people
Jeez guys, can’t believe you had to explain your hygene routine. Have to say tho I was curious.😅 HOW did civilisation get this far without daily showers ?😊❤
Can't believe you had to explain your personal hygiene routines 😂😂😂 I love to hear how much thought you give to all the work you carry out. Super impressive as always.
Ha, yes, sure that is a amerikan thing that "you have to have at least 2 one hours hot showers with bacteria killing chemichals and plenty blossom smellyes, or you are an animal!" What we still are ;-)
So weird that anyone thought to call you out on thst. You are both very gracious and straightforward.
Your hygiene has nothing to do with anyone. Only people who come from arid areas know how to clean yourself with a little water
After living 12 yrs in Indonesia without a proper shower but a big tiled tank called ”bak mandi” in Indonesian , I can assure that I was just as clean and non smelling as any other person. You scoop water over yourself , use your soap, rinse off until you feel nice, clean and refreshed. People are sincearly entitled in their comments and I really don´ t think I would have given them an explanation.
My mother had very dry skin with rashes etc. She showered once or twice a day and slathered herself with moisturizing creams. I suggested she shower only once or twice a week. Surprise... her skin cleared up in a couple of weeks. No more creams etc. It's interesting that all these holistic people coat themselves in petroleum based (think gasoline) products😂
I'm retired and don't get dirty very often. Therefore I too do not shower every day....but I do clean my "Pots and Pans" ( as my grandma called them)! People need to keep their unsolicited opinions to themselves! You're going about your home in a unique and intelligent way! Thank you for taking your time and sharing with us. 🇺🇸
On those days when I don't shower I hit the 3t's
Top tail toes
Sharing unsolicited opinions is free speech. Sharing free speech helps to develop ideas and through all that, some sort of truth can be arrived at. To deny the person the right to free speech is censorship. Accepting censorship as a right to quell opinions, leads to tyranny and we all know, ( or should know) the consequences of blind faith acceptance, no Q's asked or allowed, in particular, the last 2 1/2 years, has severely affected the course of history of the world and of every individual inhabiting it's surface. I know you mean well and you rush to defend not only yourself but also Kylie and Guy out of loyalty.
I can still remember the time we went in a small bath once a week. And yes the rest of the days we had a wash!
The showering situation wasnt a question to me and made sense without an explanation, not sure why people would be too concerned, its not like they can smell you 😅great video, thanx 🎉
People can be weird … or overthink things 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, ridiculous 🙄😜
@@ArmadilloGodzilla how else do we educate people of alternative habits/behaviours?
Well, I got to say that towards the end of the recent videos I did notice body odor. Certainly it could not be mine (I do take a shower at least once as week). So, I am pretty sure the smell lingered from Portugal to here through my mobile phone.
Bravo to you! Yes, lets challenge the notion that we MUST shower daily. Like you, I do not shower every day - I use the appropriate method of cleaning needed for that day. A different way of thinking but lets be willing to challenge what we do and why we do it. Oh, and to question if the things we're doing serve our needs. Ok, I'm done.😶
Well said 😀
I like to challenge everything I’m told or believe every now and then .. too often we follow social practices without thinking if they are correct for us
You two are awesome. OMG I cannot believe anyone asked you about your comment about not showering everyday lol...geez hilarious. I love your videos. I am headed to Portugal in Dec to look for my farm. So I am watching and taking notes. Knowing you have people you trust that you worked with is very important. I do old home renovation. Presently finishing up a huge 1857 historic home that I will be selling for my move. And I work with referrals always. So this is great. Going to be partially off grid as well self sufficient. Your videos are very inspiring. I love how you two compliment each other. Cheers til next time. Thanx for the QandA. Gina in Upstate NY USA headed to Portugal
Was watching your videos from when you started the Renovation. You Both are INCREDIBLE.. I wish more people would have the FIRE in their bellies as you both have.. That whole Property is going to Stand Out when your done. A shining light in the Neighborhood. My hat goes off to you both. I am Envious.. 🍷
Love that you had to explain how to keep clean 😀. I am 68 and when I was a child nobody had a shower every day . I dont remember that people were stinky back then.
It’s always good to have videos from you both, even if it is to answer people that are worrying about how you smell, people take care of your own pits and don’t worry about anyone else, my god the energy people waste typing dribble just to complain, try being positive like these two wonderful people. 😂
Ah, sounds very similar to discussions we have after reading some of the comments 😂
I think you are the best and the cleanest 😂, love your videos, your house and yard work. You bring a lot of happiness and inspiration and hope to many people. Thank you! Hoping you get millions of positive comments to balance some strange comments :) I always look forward to your new ‘movie’ it is better than any Netflix stuff to me.
Well done for talking about showering daily something which seems to have become obligatory over the last few years and as you say doesnt mean there arent other ways to keep clean without using up precious water ie sinks and bidets . Great video as always
Great job guys and girls! Love the content you publish. Here in the nordic countries air-based heat pumps are very popular. They’re the 2nd most effective heat source (after geothermal heat) and therefore very cost-effective. Personally I think that you have made the right choice and I am sure that you will be satisfied in the future. With that in mind I personally believe that both the Australian and British they governments need to step up their games and promote more efficient heating sources instead of subsidizing gas or coal alternatives. I am fully aware that it is not always up to the individual to decide but to hold fast to traditional heat sources based on cultural tendencies seems to be the biggest hindrance to sustainable choices throughout Europe (if not the world)
BTW I have mini splits throughout our landmarked BKLN limestone and the 2 heat pumps are mounted out of eyesight on the back wall at ground level , the refrigerant and drain pipes all run inside interior walls to the various head units. 😀 Eric.
Continue to enjoy your journey . People who are shocked about no daily showers surely haven’t lived in Australia during droughts
. I have bucketed children’s bath water into washing machine and then had it (with adapter on hose be put on trees and garden I bet the cats would love to be lying on that cool floor.
I like the way you explain "common" subjects, because I believe we all comment from observations, knowledge and to some extent also our prejudice while not fully understanding the "where, why and how".
The questions we ask are solidly based in our own climate, experience, and again how "our world functions" - or maybe how it used to function.
Living in a northern climate (me) with not a lot of reliable sun for 60-70%+ of the year, other heating/cooling fuels are needed - like wind, geothermal, whatever fossil fuel runs a generator, old-school knowledge like a mass-oven generating and retaining heat, extra insulation or plain running on municipal heating and/or electricity..
So we all learn and have our "Oh, that is why" from your solutions and also your crucial explanations as to the what/why/how, and I thank you for that.
Side note:
If you need to ask why someone would not take a bath every day, you might benefit from a look in the mirror and ask your self: Why would I take a full bath today?
If your are meeting people at a professional (i.e. work or similar) level, bath away to meet own and other peoples expectations - but if you take a full bath and then just to get "equally" dirty in 10 seconds, I see no reason to do anything but an "etage vask", meaning a wash/clean of areas creating moisture/heat/odors - and then an "appropriate" change of clothes.
PS: I have floor heating based on municipal heating and a heat-pump running on grid-electricity, so infrastructure-wise I am far from what your setup is in Portugal, but I like your approach and will look for similar solutions or projects in my retirement home!
Oh for goodness sake,surely personal hygiene is exactly that,personal, I watch you guys for your knowledge and insights, thank you for all you are teaching me.
We seem to have a showering fetish in the US. As you point out, a shower is useful when you need a whole-body cleaning and to wash your hair, but it's not necessary every day. When I was growing up we did not have a hot water heater. Once a week or before a special event, we heated water on the kitchen stove in two big aluminum buckets and used them in the bathtub, one for washing and one for rinsing. On days in between, we heated a small amount and used a washcloth to clean all the vital parts. I don't think we smelled bad.
I think that same fetish extends to the UK and Australia. Personal choice of course, but the inbetween washes work well for us.
I think I (Kylie) picked up the new habit after living/working in a couple of developing countries where water was fetched not just available from a tap
I use a small amount of water to just "get the dust off" and shower when I know it's necessary.
Don't you just love the internet? Personal, private habits under scrutiny, what's with that?
That system looks interesting, the engineering is great.
I DO NOT take a bath or shower everyday. Wash, yes...full waste of a lot of water just to rinse off, no:) More power to ya for doing your life YOUR way!
The house coming on , almost time to enjoy the fruits of hard hard labour
Well done both of you .
Appreciate your attempt to explain your hygienic practices but if anyone makes a comment its really none of thier business. Just keep doing your great renovations and sharing your humor with us.
Great explanation for all the questioners, but my main (totally incidental, I know) observation was the stunning finish on your plastered walls there in the utility room. Gratz to both of you on that and so much more.
You folks are educated and professionals frim london ii can thell from your way of speaking and manners. ❤❤❤
Good golly.....glad you're staying clean !!!! Love the radident floor heat/cool. We have that in our bathrooms and it's a luxury. God bless ya 🌻
I did wonder about the daily shower issue in that I thought 'I bet that brings in some comments'.
I like to wash the dust off my skin and out of my hair after doing dusty work, and before getting into bed. I find that the easiest and quickest way to complete this task is by showering. If you can keep yourselves comfortably clean without daily showering then that's up to you. In two years living as an aid worker in Sudan decades ago I survived very well using a wash cloth and a bucket of water. A shower or bath is not a daily essential. A thorough wash of the whole body each day is perfectly possible, as you describe.
I heard of a chap who came up with a novel cooling system in a property like yours. He dug a ditch about 3' deep 200yds long along his driveway. Then he installed a large pipe, 6" or 8" dia, all the way along the ditch (open at the far end). The end of the pipe was introduced to the house and was fitted with a low speed fan. The fan drew air along the pipe, which was cooled to around 55-60F. Minimal cost to run, and a simple and very effective way of getting cool, fresh air into the house.
I really don’t think it’s anyone’s business and I don’t think you should have to explain what you do or don’t do, I don’t shower everyday, I was myself as well, morning and night and when you have not done nothing and you not got so dirty it’s stupid to use lots of water, people need to stop and remember the earth is being killed by us and water will run out if we keep over using everything, OMG I could go on and one, I’m feeling bit angry about some of the remarks people said about you both, your hard working people living in a camping site while you build your home, I would like to see some people live the same and work so hard, you are great guys love you to bits your doing a great job.
The heating system sounds amazing. I can't wait to hear your thoughts after living with it after this winter. Seems like a well thought out design and I enjoyed learning more.
*Kia ora (hello) Kylie & Guy, Wow people really criticised your showering habits... we sure are living in a different world now-a-days. Beside all that, thanks for the Q&A video explaining all the other stuff. Keep on doing what you are doing, as I am enjoying all your mahi (work) that you are doing on and around your property/home. NZ*
Thanks for communicating to us the shower issue
Doesn't matter..your personal preference
My gracious..!!!..
Wonderful explanation of your living and working
In your new home !!@
And the new products you're introducing into your wonderful home
They are great educational videos
Thanks from ms
Guy; for mini-split systems, at least with Mitsubishi, you can have up to 3 indoor units all connected to a single outdoor unit. The outdoor unit can be mounted remotely (could be on the same wall as your heatpump). Then you only need to connect the copper linesets and communication wiring from the outdoor unit to each indoor unit. This keeps the exterior of the building uncluttered as you mentioned. I have a system like this in out 4 story rowhome. The outdoor unit is up on the roof and the indoor units are down on the first floor; a distance of around 40 feet. Each indoor unit can be controlled individually. The only other requirement for the indoor units is a provision to drain the condensate which can go through the exterior wall (very small drain tube) or connected to any nearby plumbing drain line.
Love the format of this bonus video! Feeling grateful for an extra video this week 😃
I did very much enjoy the quick, Q & A video. Thanks for the prompt conversation, I look forward to more like it !
I like this format for answering questions. well done.
I enjoyed listening to the Q&A format
Interesting and informative follow-on. Having lived here in a stone house for a short while now I have observed that the internal thermal cycle while heavily moderating the outside temperature cycles does so with a delay of approximately 12 hours. This means that while the house stays cool in the day the solar heat going into the walls appears on the inside peaking at 1am to 4am in the morning (or night depending on how you view that time).
This gives one two options when running on solar, use the solar pv energy to chill the inside during the day so it balances out at night and you can sleep. Or; use stored solar energy at night to actively cool where you want to sleep starting at about 10pm. I hope that makes sense. Anyway keep up the good work 👍
We notice the same thing upstairs, the walls definitely release heat during the early hours while we’re sleeping. We don’t have so much of an issue downstairs and I think that’s because the walls get less direct sun and are thicker.
Upstairs may require some more creative solutions, but we’re hoping underfloor cooling can work there too
Great QA video, I really like this format. Hope to see more of it!
Hi Guys, thanks for all the videos. As a fun and someone interested in the subject, I highly recommend checking out the HeatGeek youtube channel. They explain all heating-related questions very well. It's a shame that most general public is not properly educated (you guys have done the research properly) on how to operate their own heating systems regardless of type.
We’ve watched many of their videos in the run up to deciding on our solution (and bearing in mind their experience is exclusively from the UK). Particularly enjoyed the battle between 2 channels 😂
Love and looking forward to your beautiful show. 2 comments: in such houses, with or without the nice system you have installed, the lower parts of the house, as you go down, are significantly less warm. The issue in warm countries is not only the heat but significantly the humidity and to tackle this only an aircon (even only a small portable) is needed.
Showering every day dries out the skin👍😉
Great video and great answers to curious people 👍😁👍
Interesting perspective on life in Portugal. We, here in the UK, had an ASHP for 8 years and have had it replaced with a gas boiler. Now, even in winter, we are warm.
Great followup video, we're so far behind you with our renovation that I'll be using a lot of your ideas! I'm curious as to whether you could connect your system to solar water panels on the roof of your house at all? It wouldn't work for us here in Normandie but maybe Portugal would be ideal? Keep up the great work on your videos, they are the most detailed, comprehensive and informative out of all the renovation channels.❤
Our friends run all their UFH and AC units from one HP. Our builder is going to run pipes and cables for AC (but not fitted initially as he doesn’t think a super insulated house needs them). We are going to live in the house for a year or two to see if we do.
lol, lol, lol, ... Great explanations for all the questions, as always. You two are the best.
I would LOVE to have 21ºC in my apartment without any A/C system. Now we have 27ºC with our shit system (rented apartment, so we cannot invest as we did in our Sicilian house). I think this house is G Class, and obviously the neighbors didn't take the chance of upgrading through the Eco-Bonus in Italy (cheap Ligurians). Nice to see everything's going slowly as planned. Cheers!
yep to the temp. It is currently running at 37 outside here in the ariege; and inside temp is 20-21 constantly. We have air source heat pump and well insulated house.
😂🙈 I anticipated the deluge of opinionated questions regarding hygiene, the minute you mentioned not showering daily 😳 I reckon, the ones asking, are the same ones to comment about not wearing gloves when cooking 🙄 The same ones that won't survive without.... (dare I say?) their showers and gloves, when push comes to shove!? 🙃 Well handled.
Looking forward to your next full video 🏡 😍🙋🏻♀️
People wear gloves when cooking? Seriously?!?!
@@MAKEDOGROW Yes!Single-use flimsy plastic ones for serving. They're sold by the 100s/box at reasonable cost, so that you can change it after every service run. They look like what you'd typically find in a box of hair dye, but sold in different sizes, SML. Then, there's the multiple-use, rubber-smelling (my opinion) latex gloves (similar to surgeon's gloves), which I assume, is used for prepping. But, invariably, you find servers using the latex ones and I've yet to see them changing gloves, inbetween services...!? 🤔
Go figure! 🙃
Thanks, it was a good way to answer all our questions about the heat pump, and yes, you did answer my question about air conditioning. It was great to hear the answers to other questions, too. So, thumbs up to this forum! Cheers, Judy
Mr cool sell a mini split with one outside unit and up to 5 inside units that mount on the ceiling also comes pre charged so you just hook the lines together
Loved the video but I can't believe that people get that personal about your hygiene. I would have thought that people would have known about washing..... unless..... they don't wash. Enough said I think. Thanks for posting a bonus video.
I had a house in sunny Brazil with a hot non-isolated loft that radiated a lot of heat to the rooms below it. I learned that it really needs very good isolation. I was also considering to put a separate cooling for the loft by installing an extractor fan on one side of the loft and an air inlet at the other side of the loft. I never did this because the house was a rental but this might be the cheapest and most effective solution in the summer.
Dr Bronner of Dr Bronner products never bathed or showered. Fascinating documentary on him showing his cleansing routine using his wonderful castile soap. FYI I love the hemp almond. You probably haven't had occasion to use the underfloor heating. You folks are amazing.
thanks about the explanation about legionella .
I rarely comment on any of my UA-cam subscriptions. If I subscribe it's because I enjoy. I appreciate the time you give, mostly free barring a few ads, and that is fair exchange.
How you choose to live away from the camera is not my business or anyone else. People criticising your personal hygiene need barring, not responding to. There are plenty of the type of channel that sort of person likes on UA-cam, I've avoided quite a few myself! Perhaps the critic would like to share their channel here, and we can all look. But I doubt they have one, they would have to lead a life of interest to others for that to happen.
You will never please them, best to ignore and block.
Dad was in the Navy and a sink/bucket of water, soap and washcloth was always called a sailor's bath at our house...used in the same circumstances as yours, including when some aspect of the plumbing was on the fritz. (And no folks, I looked it up...that phrase derives from the German word fritzen and likely was used as a pun in an old comic strip (The Katzenjammer Kids) that may have popularized it pre-WWI.) Signed, Fletch's mom
How nice, we are getting another video😊🤗 And yes, I am curious to hear more about this milestone progress!
Good luck with your heat pump, it should work for you very well there where you live .
Love your vidios.
Ich finde das System gut, es ist nachhaltig und für den Süden ohne - Temperaturen perfekt
Ich denke der Schwachpunkt am Haus ist noch das Dach und vielleicht 😅 die Fenster
Aber wir lernen das man auch mit Kompromissen gut leben kann
Grüße von Madeira
Não se preocupem, o telhado e as janelas vão ser renovados, mas não este ano 😃
Hi, good to hear you are sqeeky clean .⭐️⭐️👏👏❤️❤️😂
So glad to hear that your henting system is legionella proof🥰
I wonder how effective this Legionnaires disease control is? Not just this model of hot water system but in general. I know we have a regular control but in the years that it has been installed in our multi-residential Apartment Block, there has only been one test taken, last year, from my apartment. So often it is a matter of trust placed in the level of ability and interpretation of the laboratory/science/technology/ technicians. So great to see you actually putting into practice to this degree, water conservation. I'm convinced if cities became as dedicated as you both to the reasonable utilization of water then there would be such an impact for the positive on the demand for water. P.S. It is not only an "eco-sustainability " question but also a health question: how much "clean" is necessary and whether or not "clean" can be excessive and damaging to the human organism?
OMG the "S" issue ... I can't believe people will have an opinion about that. .... Well explained guys.
Whenever I hear people reacting shocked (or something else) about not showering every day, I think about my grandparents. They were born a few years before 1900. Living in a house in the city, they had the luxury to have a washroom/bathroom outside in the backyard. A wooden structure with some glass, hot in summer but very cold in winter. Any washing was done there. There was only a bath (showers did not exist or were very rare before world war 2), amits the washing machine and other stuff. A bath was taken once a week maximum because no one could afford the cost of filling that more regularly with hot water for every family member. That was actually mostly still the infrastructure when I grow up in that same house. We, the kids, washed ourselves daily at the sink to a limited extent and then had our weekly Saturday bath. We did not stink or were especially dirty. Let's not forget our ancestors did not even had a bath and still managed to survive. And no, even today you do not need to shower really every day (unless you have a job that is very physical), you will not die skipping a day.
You know some people think that in spain we use the bide instead of the shower, we don't. We use both especially in summer, so you can clean feet, intimate parts etc saving water
Seems like a great system for the ground floor heating/cooling, but I still don't see how it cools the upstairs during those 40 degree weeks typical in a Portugal summer. I get that hot air rises for the winter, but that cool air in the summer likely gets "trapped" in the ground floor. Also, curious how you sleep in that tent during the hot summer without a mini-split or some other way to cool it down to be comfortable. All the best !
Hi, Kylie and Guy. Great explanation❤️👏👏👏👏
Making a note right now to never talk about my showering habits on my channel. 😂 Eric.
Make.Do.Grow. educates, helps & entertains -- and now, Guy & Kylie, you've even created new use for the phrase "the "S" word" 😊 In all seriousness, just so delighted for you having hot water & heat after years, literally, without👍
Just a thought. Wouldn't you save on heating if your boiler was kept separately from your shower boiler and keeping it a closed circuit? In other words, having two boilers. That way the closed circuit stays warmer for longer as no cold water gets added and seeing that you guys don't shower so often, your warm water boiler also stays warmer for longer. Great video btw.
Using an exterior heat pump to heat water for floor heat is unusual in the US. I don't know why, probably because few homes have heated floors. (BTW, this is the most COMFORTABLE type of heating !) Wood burner is an excellent back up. With some extra plumbing if refrigerant lines, you could install cooling (A/C) air handlers. It would take a "smart" controller to switch back and forth for making domestic hot water and cooling during the same season.
Brazilians showers at least once everyday! It's kind of a joke in our culture, 😂😂 Sometimes, twice or more times. But we do live in a very hot country. We just take this habit everywhere...
Hey you two, can you give (a) an update on the well wall restoration and (b) a general garden/farm update please. Is almost 10c in Adelaide tonight - so brrrrrr
We call it a top and tail!! I usually set my water temp to 50deg C as it’s then hot enough for dish washing and hot shower if I want hot ish. But hv tried 48deg occasionally and it feels a little Luke warm for dishes. But no idea on how economical it is to run at that temp constantly.
'Top and tail' - obvious and good one. Also saw it referred to, here, as 'cleaning the pots and pans'.
'Pigeon bath' and more often, down our way, we call it 'doing the sign of the cross'.
Wonder how they will handle sharing bath water....!?
My sister once got the weirdest looks and people even moving away from her, when she observed that she doesn't need bath salts and oils, because, she doesn't bath...!!? 😳🤪
She neglected to add that she prefers to shower, because she can't stand lying in her own dirty water 😜 Besides, her en suite, only had a shower!
People are weird. 😂
Its uneconomical to run HP's at a temperature over 35c. Often HP heating systems are designed to run hot because of price. IE it's a cheaper install to have a small engine at full revs than a larger engine at low revs. Once in they couldn't care how big your electric bill is against 'projected'.
Its far better to have a local source of hot water at the kitchen sink such as an instant electric water heater or gas. than to run the whole system at a higher temperature just for the washing up..
@@richardbartlett6932 mine an instant HWS rather than HP but just referring to temps I like for showering and dishes.
I have nothing to say really, but I appreciate your content, and wish to help with the yt-algorithms.
Love the videos 😊
Thanks for answering so many of my questions on here! With the meter thick walls we have during the recent heatwave I’ve noticed it’s beautifully cool in the house during the day. But once the outside starts cooling down the heat transfers from the walls into the house. That’s when passive cooling would be really effective, we have an old pigeon loft that I’m looking at utilizing for this… would be interested to learn more about your ventilation system?
Those of us who grew up on the Canadian prairie long ago with the Saturday night bath understand completely that daily showers are a modern western indulgence not an absolute necessity!
Hilarious, the questions about the not-daily shower😆. People do not realize that a shower was invented by people, God didn’t make it on day seven. During our travels we have been to many countries where people and tribes don’t have a bathroom, shower, washing sink or whatever. They did not smell, never! Maybe the human body has a self cleaning mechanism, by origin? Wish both of you the best, good luck with the great videos.
Thank you, well done.
I can't believe someone would have the audacity to comment about your personal hygiene routine, which by the way you are correct about. One doesn't need a shower every day.
Loved this Q&A and look forward to your Saturdays video... how are the kitties doing?
Kitten follow up video coming soon 😀
But, they are great (though very active) , we have just 2 left that we’re keeping … and one of the new owners brought one back for a visit and that kitten is also very happy and healthy looking 😃
Nice video. It was important because everyone has been waiting with baited breath for this much aclaimed heat pump system and *it's finally here.*. Okay. *there.*. LOL..
I wonder how much of the humidity you measured is down to the lime plaster still drying?
We’ve been monitoring the humidity for over a year now, well before we started plastering. With fresh plaster it hits just over 80% and then slowly comes down. I’d say 65-70% is the typical average … it’s a little lower upstairs
Excelente vidio só nao gostei das pessoas perguntarem se tomam banho todos os dias que absurdo . Eu acho que vai ficar um sistema de aquecimento de ar fresco excelente uma pessoa da minha familia tem esse sistema e está muito satisfeito. Fico à espera de mais vidios pois gosto muito e entao quando a casa estiver pronta entao é uma maravilha .
God bless you thank you very much 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇵🇹
did you get the pressure relief valve discharging properly yet ?
a PV should not discharge unless there is a problem.. Its a safety device not a control method
@@richardbartlett6932 sorry it looked like it would discharge at eye level if it did ever have to discharge. normally a pipe would be sent to outside via a tundish .
Daily showers are a _very_ recent activity. Until about 30 years ago, in the UK, most people took one bath a week and "strip washed" on the other days. Showers were not a common item in traditional bathrooms (hint in the name)
The old village women used to remark: "Well I've washed up as far as possible, and down as far as possible, and I feels better for it"
The expected reply was
"What has possible done to be left out"
And that was considered a risqué joke at the turn of the 19th century. Not one for the vicar!
Liked your "no pun intended" cool 😂😊
Does your Heater have a soft start for the compressor? Likely has one if you are going to use it with solar power.
I’m not sure it has, but from memory it maxed out at 2.5kw during the commissioning. Our system can now handle 10k (and peak at 20k for about a minute)
Its interesting, I think, that my partner and I are re-renovating our Portuguese property after 10 years and posting Facebook updates almost daily and nobody, or few, are really interested in our endeavours even though Im 70 years and had several years of continuous serious injuries. Help is available from friends and neighbours, of course, when needed but Im always reluctant to ask because all are busy doing their own thing.
Nobody really sees what we do for the local community because we are very discrete. One or two know because I've often used my skills to repair their electronics, or whatever, with no charge except for the parts used.
We often give excess produce to the local day center for the elderly, but anonymously.
We have closed our tourist business and instead of selling those things we do not need anymore and had our use of, we have cleaned them, made sure they are hygienic and given them away, as a way of recycling, to those even less fortunate than ourselves who may need it and can make use of it.
I don't care about what people think of our endeavours and actions , it's all just about personal karma.
Your DHW gets heated via a heat exchanger, which means that you don't need to run the legionella cycles. DHW temperatures on my daikin hpsu (the previous model) are 48C in the winter and 44C in the summer months, since 2016.
I live in a cooler climate and ventilation systems are more or less standard for refreshing the air in the house. You briefly mentioned that it was around 70%RH in the utility room and a number of new ventilation systems would detect that and ramp up the air flow. But it seems that these systems take absolutely no notice of the external humidity. What is the point of detecting that it is 21C and 70%RH inside, ramping up the fan, and sucking in 18C 80%RH air to replace it? Now I know that some of these also measure CO2 concentration and then I'd say that it is fair to get fresher air indoors if the CO2 is high.
Possibly not relevant to the Portugal lifestyle but I like my morning grumble 🙂
To be honest my eyebrows went up about the shower thing.And i had to say to myself " nut you dont bathe everyday lol.I wash off especially when i stay around the house not doing much.Of course going out and about I BATHE!! We actually forget ( im 63 years old) everyone didnt even have a inside toilet or shower. You pulled the tub out or washed off.It all depended on where you lived or what you could afford. Its just like A/C or heat everyone didnt have it.
Weekly Legionella cycle works quite well with my DAIKIN ECH2O / Altherma 3HHT - I run it at 48°C nominal with 8K hysteresis and 63°C legionella temperature
Defrost is not weekly, it's multiple times a day, whenever there is a significant drop in power output due to ice buildup, depends on external temperatures and humindity, usually in the area of -5 ... +5°C external temperatur depending on your heat distribution system
Cooling: Be carefull about the pipe insulation, otherwise you'll run into a mess with condensation
And again: Change that mounting! Don't have it on the wall. You'll likely regret that mounting during cold phases. Move it to a proper ground standing console with vibration buffers. You'll not regret it.
Can you please explain what the 2 refrigerant lines do? Cheers
Unfortunately I’m not an engineer so can’t provide a very technical answer, but basically one line absorb heat from the air and transfers it to the inside unit, the second line then returns to the outdoor unit after the heat has been transferred. Almost like flow/return of an underfloor heating system.
Hope that helps
Love this approach to answering questions! Mortified that someone asked about your bathing habits!
@@patriceogrady9763 think of it the other way, gives us an opportunity to share a different habit/behaviour that some people may never have considered 😃
@@MAKEDOGROW great way of looking at it!
I did question (in my own mind) the plastic covering still there - I'm the kind of people allergic to stickers, protective plastics etc. on anything and peel it off ASAP. Thanks for this clarification and (despite my dysfuncionality concerning wrappers and labels) fully understand.
As a child - dont ask how long ago, before any of you where born - I grew up on the west coast of Sweden and my grandparents hade this big house where we spent the whole summer. But - during the summer the main floor was shut down and we lived in the basement (I assume you would call it) made of 3 by 2 ft granite blocks and the indoor climate was - as I recall it - just right. (if this makes any sense).
All this only to support the cooling possibility, I know - I talk too much..
A/C-systems do lower the humidity level in the air, this is most visible as a vehicle/car with A/C being in operation (car being driven and then parked) it leakes - could call it marking territory but that would be pushing too far - condensed water, moisture or humidity whatever you call it.
Do YOUR thing, it's YOUR house and YOUR life and I'm grateful having the possibility to follow doing what I guess many, many more would do.
(Question of courage?)
Please explain how many sheets of toilet paper you use per visit and the cost to the environment.
JOKE!
As usual, all questions have been thoroughly well answered by you guys: I'm very much looking forward to the promised future electrical system description.
Now, about your toenail clippings ...
Wait until we have to explain what a ‘bum gun’ is used for 😂🤣😂
Hahaha 😅
Yup, glad it all got cleaned up, haha! 😂❤ Hope you never feel the need to keep the content too clean 😉😆
Hello! I have an underfloor heating question for you - apologies I realise it’s probably a pretty stupid one! Will you also be putting in underfloor heating on your upper floor or using an alternate method? I’m watching closely as I’m moving to an old cottage in Wales soon and am hoping to install a heat pump + underfloor heating, but assume I’ll have to settle for radiators upstairs - partially because I don’t imagine I’ll have enough head height, but also I do worry about installing underfloor heating upstairs myself - it seems more of a precarious venture for a DIYer with little experience!
Yes, we will be installing underfloor heating upstairs, the same system as we used downstairs. Head height is an issue but we’ve found a method that consists of subfloor (15mm), screed with pipes (20-25mm) plus floor finishing. I think this is the minimum you’d need.
The install isn’t too difficult but you need 2 people
@MAKEDOGROW apologies for only just replying- I've only just seen your response! HUGE thanks for the feedback - that's really interesting!
Why is my heat pump making a really loud noise when the compressor comes on ??
Jeez guys, can’t believe you had to explain your hygene routine. Have to say tho I was curious.😅 HOW did civilisation get this far without daily showers ?😊❤