@PawelK
Funny DIY picture...
I think that is actually perhaps possible... and even clever on that DIY minimal level!
So kettle is easy to replace / cheap and beats gas in some way
As you can DIY things almost from throw-away stuff
(Gas it's very expensive and specialist equipment and labour etc and still doesn't work LOL as equipment is too friggin sensitive ).
Happy to hear what people think if it's not a fake picture and even if it is - basically idea is that the element just warms water right?
Totally for 1 room I think it could work (be warm). Not sure a house would work... even with infinite KW / no money limits but maybe would be warm not hot... thoughts
I love this hodge podge jobs
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@freeschool @PawelK
In theory it should work for 1 room, but don't expect stellar performance. It won't heat up fast and you'll run it 24/7. But the biggest issue is that you NEED a pump to move the water. If you mount the kettle on a low point in the circuit, you might get away with convection currents doing the job instead.
As far as money is concerned, doesn't matter whether you do this DIY thing, or get a store bought electric resistance heater. You get the same electric bill for the same amount of heat. The only difference will be the speed.
But if you want to be more efficient with your electricity, you need a heat pump. Or in other words, get an AC that can also do heating. But that's gonna be the bigger up front investment.
@alyx @PawelK
Great reply.
If you had a heat pump in mind I don't mind have a look at a link if you have one.
And going a bit further, if sticking to this level of DIY and best we can find / cheap / crappy, do you think there is something else as device that can to push water around without being to professional or at least easy to find / replace like the kettle idea? (even if it's symbolic or kinda almost doesn't do the job :D)
@freeschool @PawelK
I didn't have a specific heat pump in mind. As for a way to hack the kettle heater further, I'm thinking maybe with an old water pump from a computer water cooler. Not sure what else could be used that would be easy to find/cheap if you want this to work automatically. You're limited basically to what you can reuse a water pump from.
A manual approach could involve using one of those very big squirt guns to push/pull water from the system.
