Hi.
I have an issue where our kids bedroom is over our double garage. Our house is 6 years old and the garage door is a metal segmented roller style. In Winter it's freezing in the garage and therefore so is the kids room, and in summer, it's unbearably hot in garage and also in the kids room.
We are toying with the idea of putting in a heat pump and have a quote for a Teco and Daikin at $2100-2400 installed including a bracket for mounting it on our roof (Apparently $180 extra). We have a Fujitsu in our master bedroom, and a Panasonic in my office downstairs.
Heating in winter we could fix by installing a $300 Delonghi Oil Heater like this one.
http://www.briscoes.co.nz/electrical/heating/oil-heaters/delonghi-oil-column-heater-rapido-series--1500w-1018419
but in summer it's just unbearable in his room. I did consider insulating the garage door downstairs, but costs seem quite high for that.
I would be keen on opinions on recent experiences with various brands of heat pumps? Our last installer said Daikin is the best, the Panasonic according to him is quite unreliable, he won't touch Fujitsu and did offer me a Mitsubishi as well somewhere in the middle of those two price ranges. We would like a quiet solution and something quite energy efficient (The Daikin has a sensor that switches it to low mode when no-one is in the room etc).
Also apparently the Daiken Dehumidifying function is second to none, it exists on our Fujiitsu but relies on a 15c difference between in and outdoors to function properly, not sure about that!
Any constructive comments/observations welcomed.