Hi
What is the standard Heating unit do you get with PD houses? Do you its energy rating?
What is the cooling unit do they supply as promotional item?
Thanks
Browse Forums General Discussion Re: PD Heating / Cooling Unit 3Apr 28, 2010 3:26 pm The gas heating is a Brivis Wombat unit and it's 3 stars, nothing special but it works ok and does the job. The controller is just an on/off unit with temperature adjustment. You have to upgrade if you want a programmable timer. We also upgraded to zoned heating so the bedrooms are on a different zone, saves us heating the whole house during the day. I don't know about cooling as we have 2 splits. The ceiling insulation is the blow in stuff I think it is R2 or 2.5. Personally I hate the stuff so we upgraded to R3 batts. The walls come with sarking only as standard, you have to upgrade to get batts and ours are R1.5. Hope that helps. Blog: http://bluemistkids.blogspot.com "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, and professionals built the Titanic." Re: PD Heating / Cooling Unit 4Apr 28, 2010 6:05 pm Sarking only? Our batts were included, no upgrade. Walls and ceiling. If they're required to meet the 5-star rating, they have to be included in the base price, so maybe it depends on location and orientation? No blow-in rubbish for us either, we refused to have it. Perhaps we wore them down.... The evap cooling unit we got is a Brivis, I think. I'd have to go find the instruction manual to be sure. Anyway, it works just fine. We paid for ours, but it was whatever they supplied as standard at the time. The current model they're using in the promo might be different. Why don't you ask PD directly? Re: PD Heating / Cooling Unit 5Apr 28, 2010 9:48 pm I've got the blow in stuff in the roof and its thickness varies from nothing to 6 inches. Mind you there are so many places where they can't insulate for lights, heating and aircon that it probably only covers 50% of the space anyway. Walls are batts. The standard heating is a typical Brivis gas ducted heating unit - with the timer (I bought mine after and installed it myself -easy) it works well in terms of operation. But in terms of comfortable and efficient heating its bloody hopeless. Costs a fortune to run and really only provides warmth when its actually blowing air - it just doesn't seem to be very effective. I think part of the problem is that its in the roof but you have no other choice. I also think the standard PD house isnt insulated very well at all and if i were doing it again id go with double glazing and better roof insulation but no downlights so there is actually something there. The aircon is a Brivis evap unit and I actually think it works great - cheap to run and efficent and does the job as long as you dont expect it to perfom miracles. Re: PD Heating / Cooling Unit 6Apr 29, 2010 9:23 am We made changes to the house and needed to get 3.5 to get the 5 star rating but we upgraded to 4.0 batts. Walls are 1.5 but no idea if they're batts or what. http://www.yourhome.gov.au/technical/fs47.html#levels Life is; then you tell yourself a story. Re: PD Heating / Cooling Unit 7Apr 29, 2010 9:19 pm kek :If they're required to meet the 5-star rating, they have to be included in the base price, so maybe it depends on location and orientation? Lifestyle homes have wrap on the walls and blow in as standard. Anything else is an upgrade. Re: PD Heating / Cooling Unit 10Sep 08, 2010 8:44 pm Kathy&Ben Hi Guys, How's noise of cooling unit PD include in the promotion? anyone knows? Thanks Do you know what make and model the unit is? I had an old shower unit that broke on me and when I took it off, there were only 2 water pipes, instead of the normal 2 water pipes and a shower head pipe. S o I… 0 36944 Does anyone have a suggestion for a good hydronic in slab heating speacialist who may be able to help me with an existing system and wether or not it may need a seperator… 0 4887 |