Fitted Air conditioning

[ukwill]

caziques said:

The 30 degrees is a thermostat setting, NOTHING to do with the temperature of the air coming out.

As long as the defrosting is working correctly (outdoor unit should defrost every half hour), not much else you can do.

You have a course now worked out that small high wall heat pumps aren't very good as a form of central heating.

Yep I get that now! I did kind of expect the unit to be able to work as a heater as well, but evidently it’s not great at heating a space if the outdoor temp is below 5C. That’s my feedback for this thread.

[Pheo]

I think those units are known for not being ideal for less than 5c in the room - they recommend an alternative source of heating. Something like that. Once the delta improves it will be able to cope.

Tbh the tip I’d recommend is leaving it on. Then it never drops down low and can stay on tickover. I do this with my mini split and it uses less power overall by some margin. This means it’s never trying to “lift” the room by a huge amount. Even my mini when it’s super cold from a standing start would be flat out for a good hour.

I’ve bought one for our loft conversion mainly for cooling, hard to get a multi split or mini in and technically not planning compliant as we already have one onsite. Plus the cost is more than double!

[119]

Sooooo, its that time of year and will be looking at getting ours serviced.

How much have you guys paid for servicing if at all?

Been quoted £120inc vat per indoor unit but haven't yet found out what that includes

[bogie]

Paid £144 total last year to service 3 indoor units, in NE Mids. Seemed to be just a check over, test, clean filters.

[LastPoster]

If they aren’t checking running temperatures and maybe pressures and performing a basic leak check, all of which can only be done by accessing the outdoor unit as well then there is nothing there you couldn’t do yourself

[bogie]

LastPoster said:

If they aren’t checking running temperatures and maybe pressures and performing a basic leak check, all of which can only be done by accessing the outdoor unit as well then there is nothing there you couldn’t do yourself

thinking about it they did check the outdoor units too and check running temps.