Does it heat rooms over long distances – Yes
Can it be installed as a DIY – Yes
After my daughter mentioned she was waking up cold during the night, we looked at a cost-effective solution to heat the kids bedrooms. Looking around online we landed on the DVS heat transfer Kit from Fresh Ventilation.
Our only heat source in our home is a fireplace which burns 24/7 in winter. This was heating our living/ kitchen and dining room well but not the other end of the house until now.
We initially had a few concerns about the effectiveness of a heat transfer system as it needed to pipe warm air from the living room to the bedrooms – the furthest being about 24m away but after installing this system we find it heats two bedrooms really effectively.
We were also a little concerned about drawing all the hot air out of the living room to heat the bedrooms, however, the supplied flat diffusers only draw air from the upper part of the ceiling which has little impact on the overall room temperature in the living room.
The system has been operational for over a week now and the kid's bedrooms are kept warm during the day and night even when it is almost snowing outside!
The DVS system we installed has a nice digital display and is powered via an Ethernet cable that connects directly to the fan. This made installing the display fairly easy – no electrician required. The display shows the room temperature and the temperature of the air being drawn through the ducts. When our fireplace is burning well the temperature in the ducts sits around 24 degrees.
Purchasing a customised solution was painless. We sent through a plan of our home and received a custom quote to service 5 outlets. Although it is not recommended to heat 5 rooms at once, we wanted the option to heat different spaces as our needs changed over time.
Our customer service experience was fantastic from start to finish. They even answered calls on the weekend when we rang during the DIY installing of the system.
The kids are now kept warm at night and are sleeping through without waking up cold.
If anyone who has a fire place is looking to heat additional rooms in their house I recommend using the DVS heat transfer kits combined with the high quality insulated duct green from Fresh Ventilation.