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A 2 kW air to air heat pump with a SCOP of 4 is about 2.2 kUSD installed here in Norway (Samsung Nordic Extreme 09 varmepumpe AR09BXFYDWKEE). This is reckoned to be big enough to heat room of 170 m2. Quite a lot of people here have one air to air heat pump on the ground floor and another for the upper floor.

Even down at -30°C it has a heat transfer capacity of 2.5 kW.

You didn't say how much your has heater costs so I have no idea how this compares but it seems reasonably priced to me.

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When you say 2.2 kUSD do you mean $2,200.00 or $22,000.00? In my locale, the installed figure is at or above $22,000 for a heat pump that is about $3,000 for the unit itself. On the other hand, an electric (no heat pump) hot water tank is $900 for the tank and $900 for the install.

I'd really like to have a plumber be able to install a mono block heat pump since the labour costs to install a heat pump look like highway robbery.

You are kidding right? I could sent you whole crew from Europe (>$1K per person for flights alone) and make couple of grand doing it at half cost.

Same here, the prices I’ve been quoted for a heat pump are $25-$30,000 Canadian. And the installers will spend the entire meeting trying to talk you out of it and into a natural gas unit.

We need more Europeans to come open businesses here installing these!

And that probably includes a unit from Samsung, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, or Dakin that has already almost circled the globe.

You can get 10 heat pumps installed for 22 000 USD here. Maybe more as you'd probably get a discount on the work part of the install if you're doing that many at once.

Installation of anything gas related could be pretty expensive in some parts of the world too.

You must have incredibly good insulation if 2kW is enough to heat that much space.

I think you misunderstand, 2kW is not the heat output of the system, but the energy consumption. That heat pump (AR09BXFYDWKEE) is rated for ~7.1kW of heat output.

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