Hi all
Looking at a kick space heater for the kitchen and wondered whether there are any down sides to oversizing the unit.
There is cabling in for a remote stat, so the on/off operation will be controlled. The heat loss sums suggest an output requirement of around 2Kw, room dimensions are 5m x 3.6m x 2.2m. I have allowed for 2 air changes, which may be a bit on the low side if the hob extrator is running. But I suppose if the extractor is on, the hob will be adding heat anyway.
On the Myson heaters there are 2 speed settings, normal and boost which are manually selected.
So my thinking was to buy the largest available (hydronic) unit, the 800, such that, at the lower fan speed it should be able to cope with most conditions. This should mean that no user intervention is required and hopefully the unit runs quietly.
So the question is: are there downsides (other than initial cost) to buying the larger unit?
TIA
Phil