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My landlord's great at getting all the Scottish government funding that's going, and there's full insulation, double glazing, an airsource heat pump and a Mitsubishi Ecodan unit.
The Mitsubishi installation manual says in big letters "The cylinder unit MUST be located indoors and in a frost free environment, for example in a utility room, to minimise heat loss from stored water". It's a big hot water cylinder at 63 degrees and it's been put in an outdoor coal bunker.
I expect that voids the Mitsubishi warranty but are there any actual rules and regulations being broken here? I don't want to bash the landlord (I love the landlord...) but they've already done this in 3 houses, they're planning to carry on doing it, and I'd like to get it home to them that this is maybe not such a great idea. Also I'm hoping to be here for 20 or 30 years, so that's a lot wasted electricity.
I'm getting temperatures of 23 degrees in the coal bunker when there's minus 5 outside, snow on the ground and an (economical) 14 degrees in the house.
The Mitsubishi installation manual says in big letters "The cylinder unit MUST be located indoors and in a frost free environment, for example in a utility room, to minimise heat loss from stored water". It's a big hot water cylinder at 63 degrees and it's been put in an outdoor coal bunker.
I expect that voids the Mitsubishi warranty but are there any actual rules and regulations being broken here? I don't want to bash the landlord (I love the landlord...) but they've already done this in 3 houses, they're planning to carry on doing it, and I'd like to get it home to them that this is maybe not such a great idea. Also I'm hoping to be here for 20 or 30 years, so that's a lot wasted electricity.
I'm getting temperatures of 23 degrees in the coal bunker when there's minus 5 outside, snow on the ground and an (economical) 14 degrees in the house.