this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2024
53 points (96.5% liked)

United Kingdom

4081 readers
91 users here now

General community for news/discussion in the UK.

Less serious posts should go in !casualuk@feddit.uk or !andfinally@feddit.uk
More serious politics should go in !uk_politics@feddit.uk.

Try not to spam the same link to multiple feddit.uk communities.
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.

Posts should be related to UK-centric news, and should be either a link to a reputable source, or a text post on this community.

Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.

If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread.

Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.

Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I lived in a campsite with an old 9kw heat pump and I couldn't tell if it was on from the other side of the garden (which was as long as the house). Anything that is mechanical and moves got a chance of making a noise but it doesn't mean all of them do. We also had one inside the house for the hot water and when that was new I had to open the door to the utilities room to even know it was on.

All you can hear is a fan spinning.

[–] _xDEADBEEF@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

maybe i got lucky to somehow hear them over my tinnitus. and no, if you live around them long enough, its not just a fan spinning (which will get noisy over time when they get manky and imbalanced, which in turn causes secondary vibrations). personally, i prefer air to air heatpumps i had when i lived in nz. not the noisy bastards i put up with in sweden.

that said, despite my hearing loss and tinnitus, i can pick up on annoying sounds nobody notices until i point them out.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've only experiences the air to air heatpumps in aus and nz. I though sweden used the same?

[–] _xDEADBEEF@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Maybe, but i never came across them.