Housing project for severely ME/CFS sufferers in Neunkirchen-Seelscheid, Germany: Interested parties wanted!

@swfrances I don’t think the creator of the thread has any ties to this project. But you might be able to reach out to them through these links?

I’m also sure people on the forum would like to hear more about your project sometime! Does it have a name or something we could read up on?

 

I would love this for moderate/severe too. Somewhere in a quiet location with everything set up to be a low stimuli environment.

 

Sounds lovely! Aren’t heatpumps super noisy though?

 

Nope. Not a modern well fitted external one.

I have a portable air conditioner (so a heat pump) and that is noisy! But I have to have it or I get really bad. So I use ear defenders. But it’s not great and I dream of a proper external system.

I’ve previously lived in places with proper external split air conditioners and they’re fine. And I suspect most people have walked through supermarkets or shopping malls or worked in office buildings where the entire place is managed by heat pumps and they wouldn’t have noticed.

Some noise right beside the external unit (as there is with a boiler) but less than you’d think. And the point is the noisy bit is outside and away from where you are. You just have almost silent cool or hot air coming from the unit inside.

They’re also extremely efficient. There’s some great passivehaus (or similar) setups with heat pumps too which are amazingly efficient because of the building design.

 

My parents just got a new external one downstairs and while it’s not noisy, it’s not something I could have in the rooms I spend my time in.