Today is a BIG Day (We have HEATING) – Daikin Heat Pump Install

ByMAKE. DO. GROW July 8, 2023 1 min

We’ve been working on this renovation project in Portugal for three years and have not had heating, running water or electricity in the house in all of that time. But that changes today.

Today is a big day that we’ve been working towards for the last few weeks and months.

We now have electricity in the house. We have running water in the house and now that the heat pump has been installed we will have hot running water and heating. And we’re running all this on off grid solar power.

We’ll show you the Daikin install (by a team of pros) and then we’ll give you a tour of how the whole thing works and why we chose it.

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