RE: Re: Homebase Aircon units...

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

My God...

...moan moan moan ... that's all some people do.

It's too big, it's scratched, it's the wrong colour...

...you'll be telling me that it wouldn't keep your room cool next!

*grin*

Actually, for a 12x12 room it is waaaay excessive ... a 12x12 room should
be
coolable with one of the smaller single unit devices. I've had mine on
today
(as I said, our room is 14'x26') and it got decidedly chilly in there.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Doxey [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 27 May 2001 18:28
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Homebase Aircon units...
>
>
> I went into my local Hombase in search of said Aircon unit.
>
> They had one marked down from £699 to £599.
> Looking inside the box revealed that it was the unit in question and
> I collared a Homebase assistant querying the price. He told me that
> was the price, I mentioned Andover selling for £299 and he suggested
> I drive to Andover. This gave me two choices....
> 1. Thump him
> 2. Ask him to check.
>
> I chose option 2 and he went away. When he returned he said
"You're
> right mate. £299 it is." so I bought it.
>
> Having got it home I have discovered 3 things.
> 1. The indoor unit is too big for my 12x12 lounge. :-(
> 2. The hoses are not long enough for me to put the outdoor unit where
> I want, at the height I would have to mount it someone could remove
> it during the night.
> 3. The paintwork is slightly damaged on both units.
>
> Because of this I am returning it tomorrow. If someone else on the
> list wants this one and replies by tomorrow morning it is available
> for what I paid £299. You would have to collect from Great Yarmouth.
>
> I will be returning it by about 10am so replies in a hurry if you
> want it.
>
> Email keith@xxxxxxx
>
> Keith
>
>
>
>
> --- In ukha_d@y..., "Phil Harris"
<phillip.harris1@v...> wrote:
> >
> > Hiya Guys...
> >
> > Well, I can't remember whether he posted on the group or whether
he
> mailed
> > me directly but Ian B pointed me in the direction of Homebase in
> Andover who
> > were clearing out some big(ish) split unit air conditioners that
> they had
> > left over. I guess they were selling them off as customers were
put
> off them
> > due to their £600 asking price and their bulk preferring to go
for
> the
> > smaller and far cheaper "hose out the window" type that
they carry.
> >
> > Anyway, he said there were two left and he got one on Friday
> evening ... I
> > went over this morning and they had found another one (leaving
two)
> and so I
> > bought them both - they were knocked down to £299 each.
> >
> > Not expecting too much I hooked one up this afternoon and was
very
> > pleasantly suprised with their performance ... our fairly large
> living room
> > which is roughly 14ft wide by 26ft long with a large open
staircase
> and
> > landing was kept nice and cool this afternoon even though it gets
> the
> > afternoon sun and once it had turned a tad chilly after sunset
the
> heating
> > capability of the unit was also found to be pretty effective too.
> >
> > They're reasonably quiet ... certainly not inaudiable but not
loud
> enough to
> > spoil our movie watching this evening (at neighbour friendly
levels
> as
> > they're back today) and at £299 have to be counted as a bargain.
> (At this
> > point Li is probably chuckling away to himself as that's what I
> class most
> > things I buy as.)
> >
> > Anyway ... if anyone's interested they're branded as
"Gree" and are
> pretty
> > hefty (they weigh in at 48kgs in the box) but certainly very
> capable. They
> > are a heat pump design and so can be used to heat as well as cool
> (they
> > don't have a heating element but run the compressor "in
reverse")
> and they
> > also have a fan only setting and a de-humidify function. The
> dehumidify
> > function has to be one of the most aggressive I've come across as
> it's rated
> > at 1.6 litres/hr or 36 litres/day ... certainly over the time we
> were using
> > it today it drew a good 1.5 litres of water from the air. They
have
> a
> > 9,000BTU heating/cooling capacity and a three year warranty.
> >
> > I can't remember who it was that was offering to look into Air
Con
> for the
> > group but I think you could do far worse than perhaps try to see
> where these
> > are from as I would hope that given Homebases price slash from
£600
> to £300
> > per unit they're not that expensive if sourced directly.
> >
> > I am certainly impressed by the units ... so much so that I'm
> tempted to
> > hang on to the second one (it was bought for a fellow group
member)
> but I
> > know the missus is going to be mad enough when she gets back from
> South
> > Africa and sees one let alone two! I certainly think it's way
more
> than was
> > originally required (the reason I bought it was to cool my kids
> bedroom as
> > that bakes in the afternoon/evening already) and I think I might
> pop back
> > tomorrow to Homebase and perhaps get one of the "hose
through the
> window"
> > jobs for his room.
> >
> > I even managed to get a 15% discount on the second unit as it had
> no box ...
> > the customer service guy that I'd been "negotiating"
with gave me a
> hand out
> > to the car with them and when he saw that I had an MX-6 he looked
> at me as
> > if to say how the hell do you intend to get those in there. The
one
> without
> > a box went inside the car with the main unit on the back seat and
> the
> > outside unit on the front seat. For the other one I took it out
of
> the box
> > and stuck it in the boot - it just fitted. I don't think he was
too
> > impressed when I asked him if there was a skip that I could dump
> the box in
> > and he did comment on the fact that I'd made quite a fuss about
the
> second
> > not being boxed ... ah well ... *grin*
> >
> > Phil
>
>
>
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