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by Symbiote 1638 days ago
That heats one 100m² room, doesn't it?

A typical English¹ house has several rooms, and is heated by a central boiler and a pump circulating hot water through radiators.

Converting the house to air-based heating would require several such units, or else some other type of unit and pipes to move the air to the various rooms.

¹ Used intentionally, I know electric resistive heating is/was more common in parts of Scotland.

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> That heats one 100m² room, doesn't it?

A lot of both Norwegian and UK homes have open plan main floors.

Just leave all the internal doors open. The average family home in the UK is less than 100 m2 all told. A pair of air to air heat pumps would easily heat the two floors.

And of course the UK really should insulate houses better.