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PANiCnz

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#214861 31-May-2017 19:45
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I need some advice on whether to get a 1 room or multi room heat transfer kit.

 

We've just had a new fireplace installed and its going great. We're now in a position where we'd like to distribute some of the warm air to the rest of the house. After some research I have settled on the Heat Trans brand from Bunnings, but am unsure whether to go with a 1 room or multi room kit. Ideally I'd like to go for a full heat recovery ventilation system but at this stage the cost is prohibitive compared with the cost of a heat transfer kit.

 

All three bedroom are at one end of the house (see floor plan below) and the doors for each room open on to the hallway very near each other, with this in mind the fireplace installer suggested we go with a one room transfer kit that comes out at the bedroom end of the hallway rather than a multi room kit into each of the bedrooms. The theory being that the extra ducting used in the larger multi room kits would lead to greater heat loss (1/3 degree per metre is my understanding).

 



 

Can anyone fault this logic?


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  #1793177 1-Jun-2017 15:14
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Back in Easter I helped install a heat transfer system at our bach near Taupo, 4 bedroom with an outlet in each.

 

HeatTrans system (made by SimX), we purchased the 3 bedroom kit from bunnings (for the fan, controller and some ducts). Already had a spare outlet for 4th bedroom, and purchase a Y splitter.
Also purchased via our sparky R1.0 insulated ducting (200mm to fan, and 150mm to rooms), as the standard ducts in kits is only R0.6, and our bach is near Taupo so can get quite cold and wanted to minimise heat loss in ducts.

 

For reference, the R0.6 ducts have approx 30mm insulation around them, and the R1.0 ducts have approx 70mm, big difference.

 

We put the inlet in lounge in the opposite corner in the room from fire (to help make duct run shorter, and its recommended to put inlet a couple of meters away from fire flu).
Ran 6m 200mm from inlet to the fan unit, then 3m 200mm duct from fan to 3 way splitter.

 

The furthest bedroom was the master, at approx 19m from inlet to outlet. (the manual says recommended max duct run is 21m)
The other 3 bedrooms had approx 15m from inlet to outlet.

 

As mentioned above, we put the outlets in the far corner of each bedroom away from the doors, so the 'warm' air can pass through the room back to the door, and circulate back to lounge.

 

End result, we are very happy, and has spread the heat around the house very well, especially with 2 kids under 5, keeping their rooms room in the evenings.
Glad we upgraded to R1.0
When closing the lounge doors you can feel the large amount of 'return' air coming back from the rest of the house (bedrooms), enough to keep the 2 doors slightly open.

 

Off topic, but we do have the following unused R0.6 ducts for sale (that we didn't use from the kit, as we upgraded to R1.0):

 

  • 1 x 200mm 3m R0.6 insulated
  • 3 x 150mm 3m R0.6 acoustic insulated

 I can post a floor plan showing my duct layout if that helps?


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