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Wall Mounted Air Source Heat Pumps & Village Hall.

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We had an event at a local old village hall on Saturday.  Maximum capacity 100 people. The hall is heated only by four wall mounted heat pumps sited at just over head height. The hall was cool. The heat pumps were struggling.  The outside temperature was 6 degrees C. After turning on via a remote control unit, flaps slowly open on the internal units and warmish air comes out, which seems to flow upwards to the ceiling. With wall mounted radiators at least they are located lower down and can radiate some heat at leg height, or people can stand next to them if really chilled. I am not impressed with the heat pumps.

Z.

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    New technology always take a bit of getting used to.

    If the space is tall, underfloor heating might have been more appropriate - or adjusting the fan speed and louvre positioning so the current of warm air reached the occupied space. No air warming heating system will provide instant heat, so those in charge need to make sure it's started in good time if the building is starting off from cold.

    It does sound suspiciously like something the local 'air con' firm has thrown in based more on what they'd do for primarily cooling applications rather than heating, but I could be wrong.

       - Andy.

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    New technology always take a bit of getting used to.

    If the space is tall, underfloor heating might have been more appropriate - or adjusting the fan speed and louvre positioning so the current of warm air reached the occupied space. No air warming heating system will provide instant heat, so those in charge need to make sure it's started in good time if the building is starting off from cold.

    It does sound suspiciously like something the local 'air con' firm has thrown in based more on what they'd do for primarily cooling applications rather than heating, but I could be wrong.

       - Andy.

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    That is the main problem. The hall committee still have the old "turn it on when needed" mentality. The heaters are only turned on at the start of an event, not before. They are unsuitable for that location in my opinion.

    Actually I got more heat from the stage out of the fan cooled L.E.D. PAR cans, although they were a bit noisy.

    I think that installing underfloor heating would be very disruptive and expensive. I believe that the local council is very in favour of installing heat pumps.

    The air source heat pumps that gently blow out warm air must be very good at distributing germs as well to all of the hall occupants.

    At least storage heaters heat the air to a very high temperature and must kill most if not all bugs.

    Probably infra red wall heaters would be better.

    Z.

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