We've been referred here by a friendly refrigeration engineer for advice on heating (and cooling) our Village Hall... and specifically to get an idea of what size budget we might need to be setting for fundraising and grant-writing.

The Hall dates from the 1840s and is a standard, clay lump (thick walled) former school-building (single room, currently single glazed) measuring approximately 12m x 6m (4m ceiling, insulated) with cupboards / toilets / a kitchen off to the side (2.4m wide, 2.1m high extensions along one side and one end).

Heating is currently by 14 x 1.5KW radiant heaters (drawing on 3 phase, 60 Amp supply): this was installed as suitable for a Hall with occasional use... but the Hall is now commonly used from 9.00am-3pm (Playgroup) and from 7pm-10pm (community use) and we've been getting through up to 130KwH PER DAY!!!!

Our friendly engineer says installation of any number of ceiling mounted cassette units (or of 2-3 wall mounted units) would be pretty straightforward but wasn't sure how many we'd need... what specification we'd need... or what this sort of solution would cost.

We could do with a very rough idea of cost to throw into the discussions at a meeting this coming Tuesday evening - suggestions welcome!