Air to Water Heating

Air To Water Heating is the website of AirPlumbHeat, and showcases all of the renewable and environmentally friendly heating and cooling solutions that we provide throughout Worcestershire, Shropshire and the West Midlands.

Aftercare 12

Airplumbheat's Aftercare 12 offers a comprehensive maintenance package that helps to cover you against the high costs of central heating and hot water servicing and repair.

Aftercare 12 provides annual cover with free callouts for your whole central heating system, including boiler and controls, radiators, pipework and hot water. It gives peace of mind that should something go wrong with your boiler, you wont have to pay over the odds for boiler parts & spares.

Each yearly renewal includes a full service, and is very competitively priced. Why not call us for more details today, and ensure the health of your boiler all year round.

What is a heat pump?

It all starts with the sun. The sun warms up our atmosphere and the outer layer of the earth’s crust. In one year the energy sent to the earth by the sun is 50 times higher than the total consumption of energy on our planet. This makes the sun a vast and inexhaustible source of energy. On sunny days you can feel the thermal energy from the sun on your skin. But actually, there is always lots of thermal energy in the air, even on cold winter days or even at night. And not only in Florida or the south of Spain, but also in countries like Sweden or Norway where thousands of houses already have heat pumps.

How do heat pumps work?

A heat pump only needs a heat source (the outside air), two heat exchangers (one to absorb and another one to release heat) and a relatively small amount of drive energy to keep the system going. A heat pump extracts thermal energy from the environment, typically from the outside air. The pump extracts the energy at a certain temperature, increases that temperature and then releases it into a medium, usually the water running to your low temperature radiators, under floor heating system or fan coil units. Between those two media the heat is moved by means of a working fluid.

Compressor - the essence of heat pumps

As the working fluid passes through the evaporator and extracts heat from the air, it turns into a gas. This is where the compressor comes in. When you compress a gas the temperature rises. (for example if you inflate the tyre of your bicycle, you can feel the air inside warming up through the rubber). Inside your house the second heat exchange takes place when the compressed gas enters the condenser, a surface which is colder than the gas itself. Finally, the gas condenses and releases its heat – this heat then warms up your house.