Split Air con

I actually got too cold at several points today :D

Switched off the gaming room air con and went downstairs, temp in there quickly rose to 31C. No wonder it’s been working so hard today. Blissful.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
It’s for days like this that we made sure to have sufficient capacity. 9000 BTU per room, 45000 across the entire house.

My gaming room is pumping out the heat, but the rest seem sat on fan 1 or 2 out of about 5.
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What is your system? After this summer i'm looking to get quotes for 3 bedrooms and 2 rooms downstairs.
 
Wegason said:
What is your system? After this summer i'm looking to get quotes for 3 bedrooms and 2 rooms downstairs.
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Daikin Emura. 2.5kw unit in each room. 3 multisplit connected to a large inverter outside and the remaining 2 having their own smaller units. Some of my older posts in this thread:

CaptainRAVE said:
These:

https://daikincomfort.com/products/heating-cooling/multi-zone/indoor-units/emura

They are great units, wifi enabled and lots of features I haven't even tried yet like detecting where you are in the room and avoiding blowing the air into you, detecting when you are in or out of the room and activating accordingly etc. Most importantly, quiet. It is a shame my gaming room is on the other side of the house and would have required its own external unit, wiring etc which would have put up the cost a good bit. There is also quite a long run between units which put up the cost. Surprised how neat the job was, I was expecting mess/damage to walls. You notice they are closed units, I love watching them open when switched on :)





This is on the corner of the house where the bins are stored, so very much out the way.

£6,150.00 + VAT

The heating feature is crazy impressive and efficient too. I don't understand why new build houses don't come with the option for air con like this. I'd rather it than central heating and you get the benefit of cooling too.
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CaptainRAVE said:
The final air con install started yesterday and will mostly be done by the end of today. My gaming room unit is up, although not running yet. I’ll post some external shots when they are finished. Fortunately they’ve been able to use some of the same trunking as the main bedroom, kitchen and lounge units that were installed last year.



Daikin have a newer model out, but it doesn’t add much and I wanted all of the units to match.

Outside is really neat, this is the new addition (on the side of the house we don’t use, this one is just for the gaming room ):


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CaptainRAVE said:
All units now up and running such that every room now has air con. This is the other side of the house:






It was helpful that they could use the same trunking along the length of the wall as the previous units.
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Obviously not going to get anything sorted for this summer now but this week's mayhem has finally pushed me to the point where I need to get this sorted.

As I said before, noise levels are my primary concern, both inside and outside units.

Before I start talking to any companies, who are obviously going to push their preferred kit, which makes/models are the ones to look out for for the best low-noise performance?
 
Ask them, they will advise best, everyone on here will just say their units are quiet. Ie my mitsu electric has a low hum from my downstairs toilet when it's on as the outside unit is right outside the window, but it's not intrusive. Fan seems to barely spin ever even at full pelt.
 
Look at some of the technical documentation. Our units were the quietest on the market when we bought them, which is partly why we bought them, somewhere around 20DB in night mode I believe. Many of the main manufacturers now offer the same.
 
Vertigo1 said:
Obviously not going to get anything sorted for this summer now but this week's mayhem has finally pushed me to the point where I need to get this sorted.

As I said before, noise levels are my primary concern, both inside and outside units.

Before I start talking to any companies, who are obviously going to push their preferred kit, which makes/models are the ones to look out for for the best low-noise performance?
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You'd be surprised. The company doing mine only has a two week wait. Others were 4-6, but it depends.
 
Thanks. Whilst quiet indoor units are obviously desirable, my main concern is the inverter outside as I live at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac and am very concerned about annoying neighbours with a droning noise.
 
Vertigo1 said:
Thanks. Whilst quiet indoor units are obviously desirable, my main concern is the inverter outside as I live at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac and am very concerned about annoying neighbours with a droning noise.
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I wouldn't worry about noise. We live down the end of a very quiet single track lane with a house close at one side. Have a Mitsubishi SCM45ZS-W outdoor unit which is basically silent at night, i've walked around at night and I can't hear anything from it 5m away.

You should really place the outdoor unit 1m away from your boundary to help with noise.

How you run the indoor units changes the noise generated outside, at night we have our indoor units set on silent mode which causes very little demand from the outdoor unit but still easily cools the rooms down far below being comfortable.
 
Got my first quote in. For all 3 bedrooms and the living room.

3 x 1.6kw units
1 x 2.5kw unit
1 x 2.5kw external unit
Daikin
www.orionairsales.co.uk

Daikin Air conditioning Multi 1 x 4MXM68A 4 x FTXP20M9 2Kw Wall Mounted Heat Pump R32 A+ 1Ph

Daikin Air conditioning Multi 1 x 4MXM68A 4 x FTXP20M9 2Kw Wall Mounted Heat Pump R32 A 1Ph 240V 50Hz A max pipe run 60M This Kit Includes 1 x
www.orionairsales.co.uk www.orionairsales.co.uk
£4400

Panasonic

Free Multi - TZ super-compact

Wall-mounted TZ super-compact Compact and elegant design with only 779mm wide.The perfect air conditioner for the smallest spaces in your home (including the limited space above a door). With PM2.5 filter and built-in Wi-Fi.
www.aircon.panasonic.eu www.aircon.panasonic.eu
£4000

Midea
£3600.

Thinking of the Panasonic as it has a 7 year warranty Vs 5 for the others.
 
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SoliD said:
Need to get it service every year for the cost of a whole new unit over the course of the 7 years...
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what he said,

the warranty is dependant on you maintaining an annual service contract with (normally) the original installer.
They charge somewhere around £100 per service.

These units generally don't have anything go wrong in the 1st 5 years anyway.

From what I have read in this thread, all the service really involves is cleaning the filters (10 minute job) and then checking for leaks, you would know if there was a serious leak as it would stop working properly.

these warranties IMO are a bit scammy.
if you bought a TV (for example) for £1200, and they offered you an extended 7 Year warranty for an extra £700 you would tell them to get stuffed.
 
Firestar_3x said:
I wouldn't worry about noise. We live down the end of a very quiet single track lane with a house close at one side. Have a Mitsubishi SCM45ZS-W outdoor unit which is basically silent at night, i've walked around at night and I can't hear anything from it 5m away.

You should really place the outdoor unit 1m away from your boundary to help with noise.

How you run the indoor units changes the noise generated outside, at night we have our indoor units set on silent mode which causes very little demand from the outdoor unit but still easily cools the rooms down far below being comfortable.
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It's interesting you mention the 1m boundary thing as I'd read that was a 'rule'.

I'm detached with alley either side. Ideally I was thinking of having the outdoor unit at ground level in the alley, as that's the side of the house where the indoor units would go so makes plumbing easy, plus being in the alley would mask the noise more than having it on the back of the house, for example.

The alleys are only about a metre wide though, so a unit placed in them wouldn't be a metre from the boundary which I'm not sure is permitted.
 
What's the noise like on the outside units? I'm in a detached but I'm maybe 6m from one neighbour and 12m from the other. Is it likely to irritate them?

My wife had to take our baby to a hotel for 3 nights because it was dangerously hot in the upstairs rooms. 28° at one point and no breeze to speak of.
 
DampCat said:
What's the noise like on the outside units? I'm in a detached but I'm maybe 6m from one neighbour and 12m from the other. Is it likely to irritate them?

My wife had to take our baby to a hotel for 3 nights because it was dangerously hot in the upstairs rooms. 28° at one point and no breeze to speak of.
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You wouldn’t notice it unless you went up to the unit and made the effort to hear it.
 
Think I'm best waiting.
Got the living room to decorate first, walls need plastering and a new ceiling.
Could always get upstairs done on its own I guess.
 
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