1 unit is permitted development so you should be all good, particularly now the 1m rule has been removed, that would have also been an issue before.
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Sounds about right; read it a while back and yea, doesn’t remove the placement and noise requirement for neighbours, but you can put one facing the road if needed - used to be something about blowing air where the public might walk, etc.
4 separate units for a normal house is a bit ridiculous regardless. Would get several quotes first.
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Did you order online or over the phone?
I did all online and had no communication at all.
You 100% sure its the same unit? There is a very similar sounding one that does need to be commissioned by an F gas person
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My A/C efficiency and comfort tip is to set the desired room temp 1°C below the ambient temp of the warm room to be cooled to start with. Let the A/C bring the temp down to Starting Ambient -1 and see how that feels as even this small change should have greatly reduced how hot and sticky the room feels.
Repeat as necessary until the room is comfortable. Have a small window just slightly open to avoid the A/C dropping the room humidity too far as your eyes and throat aren’t going to like it being too dry.
Setting the A/C to 18°C from the get go is a bad idea because unless you have industrial HVAC or a near hermetically sealed room, you’re unlikely to ever get the air temperature that low and if you do, you’ll find that 20-21°C is actually the sweet spot and 18°C is too cold.
Repeat as necessary until the room is comfortable. Have a small window just slightly open to avoid the A/C dropping the room humidity too far as your eyes and throat aren’t going to like it being too dry.
Setting the A/C to 18°C from the get go is a bad idea because unless you have industrial HVAC or a near hermetically sealed room, you’re unlikely to ever get the air temperature that low and if you do, you’ll find that 20-21°C is actually the sweet spot and 18°C is too cold.
First stage research right now for cooling our house. Looking to gauge rough costs and feasibility.
Really the entire downstairs needs cooling, which is made up of 2 large rooms, my office and the hallway. The biggest thing I want to avoid is unsightly AC stuff on the nice side of the house.
Few questions.
1. What would be the best way to cool the downstairs? I was thinking 2 internal units for living room and kitchen, where we almost never close the doors, so my office could benefit from the cooling? Routing an internal unit to my office isn't going to feasible. It is important as I work from home.
2. For upstairs, the bedroom doors are always closed, and although there are 5 bedrooms we only use 2 for sleeping. Would it be feasible to run AC via the loft into the 2 rooms highlighted, with potential to add the others if/when we need?
Floor plan:
Rear image:
Front image:
(I'd want the AC on the wall by the drive way. We also have solar now)
The guy we used for the AC install at the business premises is very busy (unsurprisingly) right now so don't want to bug him with all this 1st stage questions.
Really the entire downstairs needs cooling, which is made up of 2 large rooms, my office and the hallway. The biggest thing I want to avoid is unsightly AC stuff on the nice side of the house.
Few questions.
1. What would be the best way to cool the downstairs? I was thinking 2 internal units for living room and kitchen, where we almost never close the doors, so my office could benefit from the cooling? Routing an internal unit to my office isn't going to feasible. It is important as I work from home.
2. For upstairs, the bedroom doors are always closed, and although there are 5 bedrooms we only use 2 for sleeping. Would it be feasible to run AC via the loft into the 2 rooms highlighted, with potential to add the others if/when we need?
Floor plan:
Rear image:
Front image:
(I'd want the AC on the wall by the drive way. We also have solar now)
The guy we used for the AC install at the business premises is very busy (unsurprisingly) right now so don't want to bug him with all this 1st stage questions.
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First stage research right now for cooling our house. Looking to gauge rough costs and feasibility.
Really the entire downstairs needs cooling, which is made up of 2 large rooms, my office and the hallway. The biggest thing I want to avoid is unsightly AC stuff on the nice side of the house.
Few questions.
1. What would be the best way to cool the downstairs? I was thinking 2 internal units for living room and kitchen, where we almost never close the doors, so my office could benefit from the cooling? Routing an internal unit to my office isn't going to feasible. It is important as I work from home.
2. For upstairs, the bedroom doors are always closed, and although there are 5 bedrooms we only use 2 for sleeping. Would it be feasible to run AC via the loft into the 2 rooms highlighted, with potential to add the others if/when we need?
Floor plan:
Rear image:
Front image:
(I'd want the AC on the wall by the drive way. We also have solar now)
The guy we used for the AC install at the business premises is very busy (unsurprisingly) right now so don't want to bug him with all this 1st stage questions.
You could put all the systems on the outside wall, go up into the loft and feed the two bedroom units - you could do either small cassettes that'll fit in-between the joists or duct them for a seamless finish - you'l have to check make sure you can fit them into the loft though if you want ducted units.
The sitting room - I'm assuming is the drive way side with the little red box on it? You could just come right through the wall and have a back to back wall mount in the centre of the room.
The kitchen and dining room is a bit of work but what I'd do is, take the tubing up the wall into the loft then back out the sofit at the corner and down and into the room either in the corner beside the two windows and out at the side bit of the utility room. Would look better than running external trunking around the external of the building.
The study room as you said would require major work, you'd be looking to get that done when renewing that toilet directly above it and brining the tubing down that way.
The office isn't big, so I'm wondering if the living room and kitchen are cooling, does this allow the office to also benefit from the cooling.
You might need to use a fan to get it really cool but yes, as the house cools generally as will the study.
As with the above post on tips, you really want to run them on low fan speed (low compressor output) and just leave them on for the best efficiency.
It also means you don’t get cold drafts and large swings in temperature.
As with the above post on tips, you really want to run them on low fan speed (low compressor output) and just leave them on for the best efficiency.
It also means you don’t get cold drafts and large swings in temperature.
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