Heat Loss Calculations
What Is A Heat Loss Calculation?
If you’ve delved into the world of heat pumps, you’ve likely encountered discussions on heat loss calculations. But what exactly do these calculations entail, and why should they matter to you?
Heat, in its amiable nature, tends to seek equilibrium, cozying up to anything colder wherever it resides. You’ve likely encountered this firsthand — imagine preparing a piping hot drink only to be interrupted by an unexpected visitor. As you attend to them, your once-warm beverage cools off, with the heat dissipating into the room and mingling with the cooler air, this is thermodynamics.
The same dynamic unfolds within your home. When the outside air is colder, the hard-earned warmth within your home seeks escape, yearning to befriend the chilly exterior. While insulation does slow down heat loss, some warmth inevitably slips away. If you’re aiming to maintain a snug and inviting home, understanding the degree of heat loss becomes paramount. The key is to ensure that your boiler or heat pump can replenish lost heat as swiftly as it escapes, maintaining a consistently comfortable home temperature.
Enter the heat loss calculation — a pivotal tool in achieving this equilibrium. Through a meticulous assessment of your floors, walls, roofs, windows and doors, we determine the amount of heat that would escape from your home on a cold day. Armed with this insight, you can select a boiler or heat pump that precisely matches your home’s heating requirements, guaranteeing a cozy and well-regulated living space.
Benefits
Helps you identify the correct boiler or heat pump size
Helps you / your installer specify correctly sized radiators / underfloor heating
Visually identifies where your home is losing heat, enabling you to consider insulation improvements
Helps with estimating budgets
Required by any grant schemes linked to the Microgeneration Certification Scheme
Assists in calculating area required for ground source heat pump, heat exchange pipes
Why do you need a heat loss calculation?
All new heating system installations should be based on the results of a detailed heat loss assesment, this ensures that the proposed system is large enough to heat the property, but equally important is should not be overly large as this leads to inefficient and more costly systems.
The heat loss report we provide, is yours, you can use it as a basis for requesting quotations from various suppliers and installers, knowing that each will be quoting on a like for like basis. Your contractor can confidently adopt our report knowing that it has been correctly prepared and is backed by out professional Indemnity insurance.
Commissioning the heat loss report up front, provides you with an opportunity to review your project and make changes to building elements before your installer provides a new boiler or heat pump. Most installers do not have the flexibility to work through several iterations of the heat losses with you.