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Last seen: Mar 13, 2026
Heating came on at first was like tick over very quiet thought great, 5 minutes later warming up two photo’s 74db is about 3ft away from the unit lowe...
Mine had funny spells, earlier when it was in heating cycle seemed like low fan revs and acceptably quiet, 10 minutes later i had what seemed like ful...
@toodles thank you, i took measurements from various locations with the black cover, most were close to unit but out of wind were in the mid 70’s. No ...
@toodles i will add just been out and checked now it is running but its like on tick over and could 100% live with that, not sure technically why it i...
@toodles it has one of those black covers you stick over the microphone part. Supposed to shield from wind noise. To be honest that's not the way to ...
@andrewj have you tried a db meter near yours to see how loud it is or isn’t. Tick over we are at 70db, in front of the fan grill it’s over 100db. It’...
@editor thank you mars huge thank you
@jamespa totally agree, never ever had an unresolved issue with octopus, have been great i fully recommend them.I honestly believe they will resolve b...
@editor i will message the others see if i can get them on here i have videos from them i can ask them if i can post? overnight is important to me a...
@swwils i was going to have a Daikin installed in October, they wanted to stick the 16kwh unit in, my heat loss is only 10.7kw, so i queried the unit ...
@editor thank you Mars that is really sound advice, actually find it reassuring. I really am so laid back in life, this has just become so stressful....
@hook not may they have a big problem going by the wind noise mine makes, no one would accept it! Neighbours are also affected. during the day you’d...
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