Split Air con

kindai said:
Well first night with AC.

I am usually a hot sleeper, so put the AC down to 17 degrees and went to sleep. And wow, probably the best nights sleep I have had in years. Usually id open a window but by early morning passing traffic / birds in the trees just outside the windows would wake or disturb so window gets closed and then baking hot.

But to just have silence and cool all night... absolute bliss.

Anyone on the fence on getting AC, just do it, and enjoy it.
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Week Monday for me. Really can't wait. My wife and I are both hot sleepers so I think it's going to help no end in that respect.

Glad you're liking it though, reassuring to hear.
 
I love how you have an amazing looking car, but a house that looks like someone threw a skip of industrial parts at it. Keep up the good work. ;)
 
andy_mk3 said:
Week Monday for me. Really can't wait. My wife and I are both hot sleepers so I think it's going to help no end in that respect.

Glad you're liking it though, reassuring to hear.
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With the unit set to queitest setting you can just about make up a whisper of the air being moved around.

squerble said:
A single outdoor unit can power (and separately control) several indoor units. The internal units just take cooling as required.
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Only if all are on heat or all on cool.
 
kindai said:
With the unit set to queitest setting you can just about make up a whisper of the air being moved around.



Only if all are on heat or all on cool.
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I can't think of a single moment where you'd want to cool one room and heat another. Not would I want to use electric to heat a room.
 
squerble said:
A single outdoor unit can power (and separately control) several indoor units. The internal units just take cooling as required.
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I opted for a single outdoor unit. The fitter said the only disadvantages are you get slightly reduced output if running both indoor units at the same time, also you can't separately cool and heat at the same time, which is quite an unlikely scenario anyway.
 
robj20 said:
I can't think of a single moment where you'd want to cool one room and heat another. Not would I want to use electric to heat a room.
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Home office in winter can still need / want AC cooling while a bedroom may want heating.

Also using a single unit to heat for example a bedroom rather than turn the heating on to heat the whole house.

Even different people in the household may have different temp preferences so may opt for different options.

The price difference between 1 larger condenser vs 3 was meh, so would rather have options.
 
kindai said:
Home office in winter can still need / want AC cooling while a bedroom may want heating.

Also using a single unit to heat for example a bedroom rather than turn the heating on to heat the whole house.

Even different people in the household may have different temp preferences so may opt for different options.

The price difference between 1 larger condenser vs 3 was meh, so would rather have options.
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Fair enough of there is negligible price difference.
Sounds like you're Central heating needs updating though, individual room control has saved me a fortune since having it.
 
kindai said:
Have thermostatic valves but Im just too lazy to set them lol.
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I mean more full individual room control not just different temps in each room.
I have just the living room on a lot of the time all other rooms off. Then in a morning or evening just the bedrooms to about 17c.
 
robj20 said:
I mean more full individual room control not just different temps in each room.
I have just the living room on a lot of the time all other rooms off. Then in a morning or evening just the bedrooms to about 17c.
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I keep looking at the Drayton Wiser system for smart valves and control of individual rooms, but when I see it'll probably cost close to £700 to fit and convert, I'm not sure how much I'd actually save!
 
kindai said:
Well first night with AC.

I am usually a hot sleeper, so put the AC down to 17 degrees and went to sleep. And wow, probably the best nights sleep I have had in years. Usually id open a window but by early morning passing traffic / birds in the trees just outside the windows would wake or disturb so window gets closed and then baking hot.

But to just have silence and cool all night... absolute bliss.

Anyone on the fence on getting AC, just do it, and enjoy it.
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The wife has had ours on every night for the last 3 weeks as she is now suffering from hayfever with the windows open all night. Although I am conscious of the energy costs, I also get a much better sleep with it on and the windows shut. We have ours on 22c which feels like 19c in the room.
 
fobose said:
The wife has had ours on every night for the last 3 weeks as she is now suffering from hayfever with the windows open all night. Although I am conscious of the energy costs, I also get a much better sleep with it on and the windows shut. We have ours on 22c which feels like 19c in the room.
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Likewise. We have ours on most nights, lovely cool air. I sleep so much better and no noise through the windows. Must be great if you have hay fever. The air con uses very little electricity unless it’s a really really hot day. I usually leave it on 22/23C at night, usually 21C in my gaming room. At night on ‘night mode’ you can barely hear it. Best thing we ever did and glad I got the rest of the house done last year.
 
fobose said:
The wife has had ours on every night for the last 3 weeks as she is now suffering from hayfever with the windows open all night. Although I am conscious of the energy costs, I also get a much better sleep with it on and the windows shut. We have ours on 22c which feels like 19c in the room.
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I'd imagine the humidity reduction from the air con also has a massive effect so being able to run comfortably at 22C will be a great energy saving.
 
andy_mk3 said:
I opted for a single outdoor unit. The fitter said the only disadvantages are you get slightly reduced output if running both indoor units at the same time, also you can't separately cool and heat at the same time, which is quite an unlikely scenario anyway.
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Huge advantage with regard to planning permission. One external unit is likely to be permitted development, if any neighbours don’t like multiple external units they can report it… For some reason this continues to be largely ignored by installers.
 
Matthew.M said:
Huge advantage with regard to planning permission. One external unit is likely to be permitted development, if any neighbours don’t like multiple external units they can report it… For some reason this continues to be largely ignored by installers.
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That is a good point also yes. It just looks messy to me too.
 
andy_mk3 said:
I opted for a single outdoor unit. The fitter said the only disadvantages are you get slightly reduced output if running both indoor units at the same time, also you can't separately cool and heat at the same time, which is quite an unlikely scenario anyway.
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Depends on the size of the outdoor unit. We have a quite large (7.5kw unit I think) powering 3 indoor units. The restriction being that you can only heat or cool with all 3 of course like you say, but our house is only ever too hot. It also meant it needed a 32a setup running from the fuse box.

Our final two indoor units that were installed later have their own dedicated outdoor units, which being smaller also meant they could be run off an internal plug circuit and through the wall.

At least with this setup we only have 3 external units rather than the 5 potential units!

andy_mk3 said:
That is a good point also yes. It just looks messy to me too.
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Yup!

It’s absolute bliss, especially in my gaming room which has been unusable at times in the summer.
 
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CaptainRAVE said:
Depends on the size of the outdoor unit. We have a quite large (7.5kw unit I think) powering 3 indoor units. The restriction being that you can only heat or cool with all 3 of course like you say, but our house is only ever too hot. It also meant it needed a 32a setup running from the fuse box.

Our final two indoor units that were installed later have their own dedicated outdoor units, which being smaller also meant they could be run off an internal plug circuit and through the wall.

At least with this setup we only have 3 external units rather than the 5 potential units!



Yup!

It’s absolute bliss, especially in my gaming room which has been unusable at times in the summer.
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Yeah that's not so bad. Needs must with that one really. My unit will be a 5kw, I believe they're putting a 16A circuit in.

I can't wait now. I do already have a split unit in the cabin, so I will end up with 2 ourdoor units but not right next to each other. My cabin peaked at 26C today so will definitely be needing AC in there with my gaming rig on as well.
 
andy_mk3 said:
Yeah that's not so bad. Needs must with that one really. My unit will be a 5kw, I believe they're putting a 16A circuit in.

I can't wait now. I do already have a split unit in the cabin, so I will end up with 2 ourdoor units but not right next to each other. My cabin peaked at 26C today so will definitely be needing AC in there with my gaming rig on as well.
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I even use it in the winter when gaming for a longer session. It soon heats up in there.
 
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