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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.

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    The system may have been designed as background heat only. If more heating is required dependent on the outside temperature; topup heating in the form of radiant, "instant" heating would then be required. As an Electrical Engineer with a new town developer in Scotland -  Cumbernauld Development Corporation, we would apply this principle to such rooms. The installer of the equipment should be consulted in your case.

    To illustrate the criticism, Joe Public complained in the local press, that the builders had used unplaned wood planks for the concrete shuttering whereas the architects had specified shot blasted planks for the visual effect.    

    We were innovators of such electric heating - ICI ceiling heating, floor heating, fan heating etc. dependent on the heat loss, occupancy rate, expected metabolic emission etc. Other heating systems were ice prevention using heating grids for ice prevention on external, concrete stairways and road inclines; still in vogue?. 

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    The system may have been designed as background heat only. If more heating is required dependent on the outside temperature; topup heating in the form of radiant, "instant" heating would then be required. As an Electrical Engineer with a new town developer in Scotland -  Cumbernauld Development Corporation, we would apply this principle to such rooms. The installer of the equipment should be consulted in your case.

    To illustrate the criticism, Joe Public complained in the local press, that the builders had used unplaned wood planks for the concrete shuttering whereas the architects had specified shot blasted planks for the visual effect.    

    We were innovators of such electric heating - ICI ceiling heating, floor heating, fan heating etc. dependent on the heat loss, occupancy rate, expected metabolic emission etc. Other heating systems were ice prevention using heating grids for ice prevention on external, concrete stairways and road inclines; still in vogue?. 

    Jaymack  

          

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