IMPORTANT. If you require
Warranty Support for
Airforce Climate Control Products
- Please dial 0845 609 6688
or Return your item to any B
& Q Store.
To Purchase
Non-Warranty
Parts, Maintenance Services, Repair Services or Installation
Accessories for SPLIT
SYSTEM AIR CONDITIONERS ONLY
, please feel free to contact us here
at Aircon Warehouse Limited
on:- 08450 944 607
We
regret that we can currently
only offer repairs in the North
West UK.
Airforce Climate Control
A few facts about B & Q airforce air conditioning
airconwarehouse.com broadly welcomes B & Q's entry to the split system air
conditioning market with their
Airforce Climate Control brand.
The
"self install" air
conditioning unit that
the B & Q / airforce system
offers is an excellent concept,
as it offers the accomplished
DIY'er a route to "Proper"
air conditioning at a much reduced
cost.
However, the systems are
reported as having some quite significant
drawbacks:-
1. THE MOST
IMPORTANT CAVEAT IS THAT B &
Q don't appear to offer any
on-site warranty support for
the systems - Faulty units need
to be be returned for
either a refund or replacement.
This is fine for mobile units
but a poses a real problem for
owners of installed split
systems - especially if you
have paid somebody to install
the system for you!! This
basically means you now have
to pay somebody to take it out
again, and, if the unit is sold
out, you will have to make do
with a refund and a wall full
of holes!
2. The Airforce
systems aren't Eurovent Certified.
This means that the manufacturer's
performance claims haven't been
tested by the European independent
certification body - Eurovent
- to verify that the units will
actually provide the performance
claimed on the box. Ultimately,
the Airforce
units are (and probably always
will be) BUDGET air conditioning
systems! - They will struggle
to match the performance of the
established Japanese manufacturers
- Check out the Government's
Energy Technology List (www.eca.gov.uk/etl)
of tested and approved low energy
usage heat pumps - The Airforce
Climate Control system isn't
on it because it's Coefficient
of Performance is extremely
poor by modern standards.
3. All the premium
brand air conditioning manufacturers
and most of the "second
division" guys have moved
to inverter drive compressors
to push their system's energy
levels efficiency levels far
beyond the "A" energy
label criteria. The airforce
climate control system remains
a Fixed Speed Compressor system
with consequently higher energy
consumption and lower efficiency.
4. The DIY versions
of the airforce unit have a
fixed length interconnecting
pipe set. The length of this
tubing cannot be changed by
a DIY'er and a qualified air
conditioning or refrigeration
engineer would find the task
both tiresome & time consuming.
In short, you're stuck with
the 4 metre pipekit and must
"make the unit fit the
project" rather than select
the air conditioner that best
suits the application.
The
airforce systems also have a
maximum height difference
allowance between the indoor
& outdoor units of just
one metre - this further restricts
their suitability in many cases.
5. It has been
reported that the pipekit for
the DIY Airforce Climate Control
system cannot be "Plugged
In" when the outdoor unit
is mounted on the B &
Q supplied wall bracket - This
situation will probably change
when B & Q get their manufacturer
to change the bracket or connector
design.
airconwarehouse.com
are in the unique position of
being able to offer virtually
ANY leading brand air conditioner
in DIY form and with
a custom pipekit made &
fitted by us to a length to
suit your project. This system
gives you the option to choose
the right air conditioner for
the job and with an self-sealing pipe kit pre fitted to
the length you specify.
Please contact us for more info.
airconwarehouse.com
can offer you professional quality
air conditioners
& heat pumps from the following
LEADING manufacturers in
DIY form. We do this with our
superb Fully-Flexible hose system
which features self-sealing
end connectors for fast, trouble
free refrigerant pipework connection.
Hitachi
| Mitsubishi | Samsung | Toshiba
| Daikin | Fujitsu | LG | Panasonic
Sanyo
| Toshiba | Vaillant
Remember,
nobody else offers this service.
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