Split Air con

tamzzy · 31 Jul 2026 at 13:12

CaptainRAVE said:
We went Daikin at the time since they were one of the first to do more stylish indoor units in various colours along with them being the quietest at the time, useful for bedroom units. I don’t bother with night mode anymore though, auto doesn’t wake me.
We blast ours out for the final hour or so of the EV tariff. For this reason I wouldn’t mount external units on the wall again as they are louder on heating mode in the depth of winter.
We did everything possible to avoid the loft option, luckily it was very easy to duct everything outside.

ah that makes sense, there's room to install the external unit on the ground and external ducting. i'll probably do that instead.
no pump makes sense, one less point of failure at the cost of slightly more eyesore

throwaway4372 · 31 Jul 2026 at 13:49

How long was it from contacting the company to getting AC installed?

I contacted a company and booked the earliest appointment for a quote and it's in December, god knows when the install would be after that.

LiE · 31 Jul 2026 at 14:32

throwaway4372 said:
How long was it from contacting the company to getting AC installed?

I contacted a company and booked the earliest appointment for a quote and it's in December, god knows when the install would be after that.

I'll add my dates I posted in another thread. Not sure what the current lead times are with the same installer.

I ordered 17th June, with an install date of 15th/16th July. Due to supply issues on external units, install moved to 30th/31st.

A week later I put in another order with the same installers for my garage AC, that hasn't arrived yet. Probably arrive next week and installed the week after.

tamzzy · 31 Jul 2026 at 15:00

£7k for a Daikin 8kw install...should I get this over the £6.5k Samsung 10k install?

Indoor units are 2.5kw X2 and 2kw X2
Realistically only 1 or 2 units will be on concurrently, so 8kw should modulate down and not cycle as much as a 10kw unit

tamzzy · 31 Jul 2026 at 15:14

Just clarified it's the Daikin comfora...seems to be the mid-range Daikin...

Guess I just talked myself into the Daikin! Lol

LiE · 31 Jul 2026 at 15:31

Yea I'd certainly be more comfortable with Daikin over Samsung.

tamzzy · 31 Jul 2026 at 15:33

Also asked for ground mount and external ducting as well.
I was going for the aesthetics with the wall mount and loft ducting, but you guys are right, reliability and sonics are higher up the list

LiE · 31 Jul 2026 at 15:53

tamzzy said:
Also asked for ground mount and external ducting as well.
I was going for the aesthetics with the wall mount and loft ducting, but you guys are right, reliability and sonics are higher up the list

To be honest, wall mounting shouldn't be an issue for sound. They are isolated from the bracket with rubber. The noise from what I can hear is mostly the compressor when it's doing a fair bit of cooling, which will be the same whether on the wall or floor.

Mine is mounted to the wall of our living room, no windows on that side of the house (unless you count my neighbours ensuite).

CaptainRAVE · 31 Jul 2026 at 15:57

LiE said:
Yea I'd certainly be more comfortable with Daikin over Samsung.

Same.

tamzzy · 31 Jul 2026 at 15:58

If wall mounted mine will be close to my stairs window.
How are the vibrations like when going at full chatter?

LiE · 31 Jul 2026 at 16:06

tamzzy said:
If wall mounted mine will be close to my stairs window.
How are the vibrations like when going at full chatter?

Should be isolated. Being a stairs it would even less of a concern. Not like you’re bolting it to your bedroom wall with no rubber isolation

Scuzi · 31 Jul 2026 at 18:38

When mounting on the ground, you have to count at least 2 reflection surfaces for the purposes of the MCS020a calculation. It could be the difference between a compliant and a non-compliant install. If mounted more than 1m up only 1 surface is counted, assuming there are no perpendicular walls within a metre.

Grim5 · 31 Jul 2026 at 23:46

Mason- said:
Daikin are supposed to be the rolls Royce my installer does Fujitsu and Daikin. He said really there’s no reason to go Daikin over Fujitsu they’re both very high quality just Daikin is more expensive. He said the Daikin is marginally more efficient in heating mode.

I believe Mitsubishi are also supposed to be very good, I wouldn’t touch Haier with a barge pole.

Fujitsu, Mitsubishi and Daikin are the gold standard for residential heatpumps, AC and ventilation. I can't speak for commercial/industrial products but for residential those are the brands you want if you can afford it

IMO the goat setup for a house is a Mitsubishi Lossnay + Multi Zone Ducted Mitsubishi HVAC system. For multiple reasons installing such a setup is much easier if you do it while building a new house and it's not cheap as you'd be looking at around 10-12k

tamzzy · 1 Aug 2026 at 00:08

throwaway4372 said:
I contacted a company and booked the earliest appointment for a quote and it's in December, god knows when the install would be after that.

I'd try and get the install done and dusted by march 2027. After than the 0% vat relief ends and you're liable to pay 5% vat

Simon D · 1 Aug 2026 at 13:09

Can anyone recommended a good local AC Installer near Evesham, Worcestershire or a National one.

Thanks

Simon

throwaway4372 · 7 Aug 2026 at 08:58

throwaway4372 said:
How long was it from contacting the company to getting AC installed?

I contacted a company and booked the earliest appointment for a quote and it's in December, god knows when the install would be after that.

Found another company, got a quote already, install in a month or so.

Nikumba · 11 Aug 2026 at 23:28

Just had my quotes through for two external units and 4 internet units, reason for two external is 3 units are at one end of the house, the 4th is at the other end.

Daikin system £6700 FTXA20CW, FTXA25CW, FTXA20CW, FTXA35CW

Fujitsu system £5230 ASEH07KMCG. ASEH09KMCG, ASEH07KMCG, ASEH12KMCG

Same size units for both quotes, slightly different SCOP and SEER though from my research the slight difference in SCOP and SEER won't make up the £1500 between the two quotes, any reasons not to go with Fujitsu over Daikin? OUr datacentre AC is Fujitsu and never had issues with it.

Simon D · 12 Aug 2026 at 12:19

Nikumba said:
Just had my quotes through for two external units and 4 internet units, reason for two external is 3 units are at one end of the house, the 4th is at the other end.

Daikin system £6700 FTXA20CW, FTXA25CW, FTXA20CW, FTXA35CW

Fujitsu system £5230 ASEH07KMCG. ASEH09KMCG, ASEH07KMCG, ASEH12KMCG

Same size units for both quotes, slightly different SCOP and SEER though from my research the slight difference in SCOP and SEER won't make up the £1500 between the two quotes, any reasons not to go with Fujitsu over Daikin? OUr datacentre AC is Fujitsu and never had issues with it.

I been looking at quotes for AC systems with Mitsubishi electric, Daikin and Fujitsu (will be called GENERAL HVAC Solutions UK Limited soon).

But the prices I have been quoted are very high in the region of £20K for a design with ducting to the bedrooms (5 Internal units in the loft) with a single 5kW wall mount wall mounted cassette for the Family/Kitchen room from one outside unit.

I found that each installers offer different warranty terms.

Mitsubishi electric (7 to 10 years parts and Labour)
Daikin (5 to 7 years parts and Labour)
Fujitsu (3 to 5 years parts only)

I decided that this warranty terms and installer working partnership with the supplier is important to me and needs to be consider as well. but £1500 is a good saving with Fujitsu.

One important factor to honor the warranty you will need to have the system serviced once a year, I been quoted £150 to 350 by the different installers.

Nikumba · 12 Aug 2026 at 12:43

Not worried about it being serviced as the last house we had one, so that is fine, the Fujitsu system have been quoted comes with 5 years parts warranty and the Daikin system has 7 years parts only according to the quote.

The wife likes the Fujitsu system as we can get two of the internal units in a soft black and they would look better in our living room and bedroom, not worried about if we change the colour in the living room as we have had the same dark blue in the last three houses so safe to say its staying lol.

Thanks

SoliD · 12 Aug 2026 at 13:20

Simon D said:
I been looking at quotes for AC systems with Mitsubishi electric, Daikin and Fujitsu (will be called GENERAL HVAC Solutions UK Limited soon).

But the prices I have been quoted are very high in the region of £20K for a design with ducting to the bedrooms (5 Internal units in the loft) with a single 5kW wall mount wall mounted cassette for the Family/Kitchen room from one outside unit.

I found that each installers offer different warranty terms.

Mitsubishi electric (7 to 10 years parts and Labour)
Daikin (5 to 7 years parts and Labour)
Fujitsu (3 to 5 years parts only)

I decided that this warranty terms and installer working partnership with the supplier is important to me and needs to be consider as well. but £1500 is a good saving with Fujitsu.

One important factor to honor the warranty you will need to have the system serviced once a year, I been quoted £150 to 350 by the different installers.

having individual units for each room will be pushing the price up significantly. Can they not do 1 or 2 ducted units up there? We have one 5kw unit for all 4 bedrooms and it copes just fine all year round, and can be balanced between the bedrooms to some extent by adjusting how much each duct is open in each room.

Never had any of my units serviced and they've been in 5 years this year.