Wind proof bin store

[Moxi]

We normally only have the lounge around 18 degrees maybe 19 if we are under the weather and in deep winter on the odd occasion we will get it up to 20 degrees maybe. Right now we are passing 23 degrees and I suspect the wife will go ballistic on me when she gets home later, interestingly it’s warmed upstairs as well as downstairs so so a double headed unit should easily manage winter but I really need to get the costs sorted before I get distracted by how well it gone.

Moxi

[Moxi]

The weather here has definitely changed towards the cooler side of the scale today and my wife has a cold at the minute and was feeling that she wanted to be warmer.

We are cooking a turkey roast dinner at the minute but I felt that this was an opportunity to flex the heat pump technology further so I popped on the air conditioner and cranked up the temperature.

She’s very pleased with the speed of heating as am I, I am equally pleased that when the oven is on we are still putting 800 watts in the stack and when it’s off we are putting over 2 kW in the stack and heating the whole cottage on an otherwise blustery cold afternoon.

I might be winning the most important heart and mind in the cottage over towards a split air on system

Moxi

[Joeboy]

Sounds great Moxi, the tech has spliced in nicely by the sound of it. We are now down to 1 A2A heating over 100 sqmtr across two floors. It is the lower floor unit and it is getting it done very well indeed. As at home with the ashp it is mounted high on a wall so unlikely to see any cold air recirc what with it being balcony mounted.

Good luck with the convincing, sounds like it's a self selling idea.

[Moxi]

I just got one of those sideways looks from SWMBO

All I did was ask if it was ok for me to drive over to Conway to collect a free storage heater



Saw one and thought I would give it a whirl - its a CREDA TSR24MW 100cm wide, so thats as much as I know at the minute.

Moxi

[Moxi]

Can I just have a sanity check with other storage heater owners please - I'm fixing my storage heater to a solid stone wall and the feet of the heater will stand on a short pile carpet with terracotta tiles beneath and then under those is the concrete floor. The installation says to cut slits in the carpet so the feet are sat to the substrate floor - is this necessary ? Its in an old room only used for storage and playing for the kids, the carpet is old enough that we don't worry about it being flattened under the feet and we also don't mind the feet being visible so is carpet cutting a aesthetic thing or is there more purpose than that ?

Manual says it will be 144kG when loaded up with the 16 number heater bricks

Moxi

[Stinsy]

Can I just have a sanity check with other storage heater owners please - I'm fixing my storage heater to a solid stone wall and the feet of the heater will stand on a short pile carpet with terracotta tiles beneath and then under those is the concrete floor. The installation says to cut slits in the carpet so the feet are sat to the substrate floor - is this necessary ? Its in an old room only used for storage and playing for the kids, the carpet is old enough that we don't worry about it being flattened under the feet and we also don't mind the feet being visible so is carpet cutting a aesthetic thing or is there more purpose than that ?

Manual says it will be 144kG when loaded up with the 16 number heater bricks

Moxi

You can put the SH on carpet if you like. However the carpet will settle over time so you might want to allow for that with your wall fixings.

How hard is it to cut around the feet and remove a bit of carpet for each foot?

[Moxi]

Its easy enough to cut it - but its a very short pile and I couldn't see it sinking more than a few mm if that but for the sake of correctness I will slip the feet under the carpet into contact with the tiles so theres no chance of any movement at all - I wonder how people with suspended wood floor get on ?

Moxi