@heat-pump-newbie, if it's not too much trouble, can you please resend me the WeTranser link I can't seem to open the one I've received?
Please ignore that - I've received it and I'm uploading the video now.
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Here we go - this is the video. Very interesting to watch indeed. To keep things festive, we'd add some holiday-ish music in the background.
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Thank you ! The Christmassy background makes it look like a spectre rising from the smoke!!
So the dunny, masquerading as a shed, is toast 😂. A start.
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Hi Newbie,
I am not certain if removing the shed will have that much effect, other than to increase the size of the 'well'.
Posted by The Garden Shed Protection Society. 😀Â
Ah, I'm glad you recognise it as a Garden Shed rather than a privy !
I also thought it might just make a bigger well, but I may be able to judiciously place a panel of the shed to funnel the cold air behind the garden room. There's an open wire fence behind that, not the close-board type so it could disperse through there. By the time it's filtered through the trees behind that it shouldn't be antisocial from the neighbour's point of view.
Hi Newbie,
I hope that you realise that there is now a world shortage of smoke pellets because of your antics, and I'm still amazed that you did not hire a helicopter, with one of those special cameras, for the overhead view. 😮 On a more serious note, did you use calibrated smoke pellets or bog standard ones? 🙃Â
It was actually a brilliant idea of yours to use smoke pellets rather than joss sticks, I mean, which idiot thought of using joss sticks. 🙄Â
I am not a world authority on 'cold wells', though I suspect that they will get deeper as the ambient air temperature falls, and the heat pump has to work harder. So the options would probably be to remove the fence and chop down part of the hedge, so that your neighbour can enjoy the nice cooling breeze, 😡 or try to funnel the exhaust air out of the 'well', or alternatively funnel fresh warmer air to 'feed' your heat pumps desire for heat.
I look forward to seeing your solution.
Hi Derek
I did feel a bit guilty putting all that smoke into the air when the whole point is to save emissions ! However, I've only used 3 from a box of 10 https://www.toolstation.com/smoke-pellets/p38123. I used a joss stick to locate draughts in the house, but it wasn't man enough for the gale coming from the heat pump.
I've been thinking of ways to redirect the cold air out of the well but I'm going to try a couple of experiments first before I reveal anything in case of embarrassing failures !! Possibly a lockdown project but I'd like to set something up asap as it's going to be -1deg in the small hours of Tuesday.
Posted by: @heat-pump-newbieHi Derek
I did feel a bit guilty putting all that smoke into the air when the whole point is to save emissions ! However, I've only used 3 from a box of 10 https://www.toolstation.com/smoke-pellets/p38123. I used a joss stick to locate draughts in the house, but it wasn't man enough for the gale coming from the heat pump.
I've been thinking of ways to redirect the cold air out of the well but I'm going to try a couple of experiments first before I reveal anything in case of embarrassing failures !! Possibly a lockdown project but I'd like to set something up asap as it's going to be -1deg in the small hours of Tuesday.
Hi Newbie, though you are rapidly becoming an Oldbie.
I don't think a few sticks of smoke will make much difference in the great scheme of things, just think of all the emissions you will be saving when your heat pump is running like a Rolls Royce.
One way to prevent the cold air from being drawn back into the heat pump, would be put a partition down the side of your home level with the front of the heat pump, and above the height of the fence. In that way the air being drawn into the heat pump should be from the warmer regions.
Another way would be to dig a big hole for the cold air to go in to. 🙃 Though I'm not an expert on holes, so I don't know how big it would need to be. 🙄Â
We tried moving the little shed away from the fence to channel the cold air down behind the garden room, it was an improvement on the original airflow. However, today we've turned it round in an attempt to block the cold air from coming back into the heat pump. Not sure it's entirely successful as it was breezy and getting blown back over the top, but I'll get some temperature readings tomorrow.
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