Browse Forums Heating, Cooling & Insulation Re: Cooling advice for a 40Sq house 2May 24, 2014 7:58 pm Land settled May '14. Building the PD Hoffman39: 5/11=site start, 13/11=slab pour, 26/11=frame complete, 10/12=roof on, 12/12=bricking started. Blog: http://jyndeira.net/blog/ Re: Cooling advice for a 40Sq house 5May 25, 2014 9:40 am Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: Cooling advice for a 40Sq house 6May 25, 2014 10:47 am Settlement 1/2/12 New Shed 23/3/12 Slab poured 27/3/12 Frame complete 4/5/12 Roof complete 1/6/12 LOCKUP 29/6/12 Our new build blog http://kareenhillsownerbuild.blogspot.com/ Re: Cooling advice for a 40Sq house 11Jun 14, 2014 8:36 pm Our home is 50sq and we run a ducted aircon/heating unit to the main living areas, theatre room and study. We also have a multi head split system unit to the 3 bedrooms and to downstairs. For us this was the most economical option that would allow us to have each bedroom set on its own temperature with its own thermostat. Also, if we are watching TV in bed we can simply run our 3.5kw split system head instead of a much bigger unit. Hubby is a shift worker so in summer needs the aircon in the bedroom only. Custom downslope build Build thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=61873 Blog http://www.buildingroyalmanor.blogspot.com.au Re: Cooling advice for a 40Sq house 12Jun 14, 2014 9:33 pm mycl B STAR 18 kwatt usually require 3 phases. However Lennox make a unit close to 18kwatt that runs on single phase. These days it is not a good idea to over dimension your cooling in fact I would say with all the other energy efficient choices people make around their house you could easly cut down the size of the unit. I run a 15kwatt unit for a house with 30square living and it works on the hotests of days we had last summer. DUring the day I run the living areas only. At night without the sun be present I can run and cool the whole house. So if a house is double storey with 50 squares of internal dimension (living space), then 3 phases by inference would be a prerequisite - to run one or more likely two units? Yes three phase would be required. You will only need two units if you plan on running both bedrooms and living at the same time. But you will find double stories are generally very cool on the lower floor anyway. If you want the most flexibility you will have two smaller 3phases (maybe 15 or 18kwatt) or one big unit. But remember in either case you need to be prepared to pay to run the units. For the record I know someone who was able to run a large double storey house on one 18kwatt unit. However to be effective they need to run the unit from early morning to give it a head start before the hot weather arrived during the day. Re: Cooling advice for a 40Sq house 13Jun 17, 2014 6:23 am B STAR mycl B STAR ...However to be effective they need to run the unit from early morning to give it a head start before the hot weather arrived during the day. Which is the best way to do it anyway. Re: Cooling advice for a 40Sq house 14Jun 17, 2014 1:36 pm why do you say that IceMan. I Prefer not to put it on until I need it. My home doesnt get hot until 3 pm somedays. By that time I have hopefully exported some electricity to the grid and I can buy it cheaper. Versaloc is a mortarless besser block system that still needs a properly engineered footing. If you just do a 400x200 footing it will fail in time. At 17m long you need it… 1 21840 I posted the floorplan on Houzz.com forum and got some really good ideas and advice from people there. Then we reached out to a couple of renovation companies and one… 5 10473 I'm based in Adelaide and I'm considering purchasing a house and land package from Weeks Homes. I found a deal that looks good, but there's a complication: the land isn't… 0 687 |