Itsallaguess wrote:Howard wrote:
I bought a portable aircon a few years ago and made a frame for the exhaust tube to fit the window. Before committing to buying it, I had listened to it in the large shop and it didn't sound too noisy.
However once I got it home and used it in a quiet house in a fairly large bedroom it was incredibly noisy, expensive to run and not that effective.
So I sold it and had Mitsubishi split aircon installed instead. Whisper quiet, incredibly effective and costs pence to run. Admittedly It would cost a bit over £1k to install a split system for one room. Worth considering?
See post -https://www.lemonfool.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=222449#p222449 and the later review of using the system in very hot weather.
I can't believe your very interesting air-con journey was three years ago now Howard - it's scary how the years fly by!
It's great to hear that you're still happy with it all after such a long period of use, but I've just had a read through that great thread again this morning, and it doesn't look like the URL links to the outdoor and indoor units you had installed are valid any more - would it please be possible for you to provide a couple of new links to the kit you had installed, or the latest models of them if they've been updated since?
Having had a bit of a dig online, would I be right in thinking these two options are somewhere near?
2.5kW and 3.5kW indoor units - https://www.orionairsales.co.uk/mitsubishi-heavy-industries-air-conditioning-scm40zs-s-r32-multi-1-x-skm25-1-x-skm35-wall-240v50hz-13959-p.asp
2.5kW and 2.5kW indoor units - https://www.orionairsales.co.uk/mitsubishi-heavy-industries-air-conditioning-scm40zs-w-r32-multi-2-x-skm25zsp-w-wall-mount-240v50hz-15064-p.asp
Cheers,
Itsallaguess
Yes, iag, thanks for your post, you are right - time flies!
Your second link is, I think, the latest version of the aircon I had installed.
We are very pleased with the system. It is very quiet in operation. The air conditioning mode has proved very effective, especially on hot nights. It is obviously a luxury which is only used during the hot days of summer. However, slightly surprisingly, I have used the heating mode much more frequently. One wall unit is in the room we frequent most in the winter and we use it to boost the temperature on cold days instead of turning up the central heating and it brings up the temperature very quickly on a cold morning. I didn't install it with economy in mind but the running cost is very low (a few pence an hour), even now with a much higher electricity tariff.
regards
Howard