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  • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone
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    Hello brains trust, I’m seeking appliance advice.

    Thinking of getting a split system for heating/cooling as gas heating costs are nuts and we also don’t have aircon, so combining the two seems like a good idea.

    Could anyone suggest brands to check out or avoid, please?

    So far, I’ve heard Mitsubishi and Panasonic are good, but am a bit unsure about where to start

    • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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      I’m looking in to them too. I don’t know whether to try to choose a brand first, then try to find a decent installerr, or pick an installer and choose from the brands they sell. I really just want to wave a magic wand and have it done.

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          I don’t think I’ve got much option. You can buy them seperately and then have them installed, but you need to have somewhere to put it after it is delievered, which I don’t have.

      • FunkyClown@lemmy.world
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        Mitsubishi Electric are still decent. Mine is around 10 years old and I let it get dirty and never serviced it. It was full of cat fur and mould. I paid someone to do a full clean and now it works like new.

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            $130. It was gross and spitting out black fluffy stuff and the dude used cleaning spray and a pressure water spray to clean out all the crap between the metal fins. The crap that came out from flushing it was like a water cooler bottle size that was black and less transparent than coke. Money well spent.

            It also runs way better now and probably saving me a crapload on electricity. Before on 26c full blast hardly heated and now on 22c one fan bar it’s warm as fuck. I guess the fins inside the system don’t work if they are clogged with mould/cat fur which seems like common sense now I think about it.

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      Choice magazine placed mitsubishi heavy industries just above Daikin, which are kind of the BMW of split systems. Might be worth seeing if you can find a choice review, but I think you’d need to be a subscriber. My mate is a subscriber and that’s where we looked them up, last year sometime. I moved out of the place I was looking to install one in and my new place already had this one installed. It’s been on almost every day since I moved in in May. I have one here, it’s great though a touch underpowered for my whole flat but it smashes one room if I close the door to the bedroom.

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        Currently have Panasonic and seems fine so far, but it’s not very old so don’t know how good the longer term reliability is. Don’t be tempted to get a smaller unit that needed for the space, the sweet spot for efficiency and function is having a right sized unit. Check the cost of installation before you buy a unit. Installation can be expensive, and if you have an older house and switchboard is not to current standards there may be a requirement to update it.

        Edit: oops replied to wrong comment in thread.

      • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone
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        Thanks for the tip, I’ll check out choice reviews. I’ve been thinking of getting one for years but am the queen of procrastination, so keep putting it off