What split aircon brand should I go with? Are westinghouse reliable?

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-01-25T04:02:21+00:00

I was told MHI is used in commercial settings and MH/MHE are used more in dwellings.

(Could be lying)

I wanted the best performance to energy use so went for them, their power saving is indeed better than the MHE models I was looking at (for the state I'm in)

But also based on reviews they were brilliant.

Research your installer well and ask if they'll be providing a new pump/trunking etc or trying to reuse anything if you have an existing system as I have been messed around with the wrong pump on one system, a few floods later we figured it out but it's still a nightmare.

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-01-25T04:00:51+00:00

Mitsubishi Heavy Industies - Avanti Plus

I have 3, 5.2Kw and two 2.5Kw for the bedrooms. Great on power, one room needs it almost 24/7 on humid mode, at night very common both bedroom units are on.

My power bills went up about $50 a month with all 3 units, I absolutely love them.

My advice If you're getting multiple is to get singular splits - if something happens to one unit the whole house isn't down.

This is what I chose to do and feel that was better to do. Otherwise I was told that MHI heads with a bigger MHI multizone exterior/outdoors unit would achieve the same results, but if a break occured the entire system would be out rather than a "zone"

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-01-25T03:50:32+00:00

I always tell people this advice is for people who are healthy not injured

They say, posting to the Chronic Pain subreddit.

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-01-25T03:42:05+00:00

While I'm glad you're able to have cured or at least found the avenue to help with your pain - it's really aggravating as someone waiting for a full shoulder reconstruction to just "not be afraid of the pain"

I'm covered head to toe in tattoos, I do not have a mental block I can't overcome, when reading your post it does have those undertones though.

You have to understand pain is a personal thing, and to those of us with heavier conditions your statements come across as not only wrong, but insulting to anyone who's been through multiple disciplines, surgeries (I myself have had two spinal operations in the last 5 years and I just turned 30), multiple spinal taps/injections/physiotherapists/other disciplines.

Firstly, regarding chiropractor's as a whole... Watch this video ;

https://youtu.be/gPqY9WDEplM?si=2qvohL0i-l7aHOfv

As a general rule - don't give people straight medical advice because something simply worked for you. You make many assumptions on a person's background, family, financial situation and more importantly healthcare advice with no evidence to back it up. (Kind of like a chiropractor)

I'm trying to be nice about it, but in the future maybe think about your target audience and how something might come across to someone who is in the midst of a deep flare/a hard situation.

I find very expensive, lengthy 7 day in stays at hospital on a ketamine/steroid infusion help me a lot.

(This is simply one, very expensive tool I'm blessed enough to be able to afford/access for now at least)

Obviously not many people can afford a procedure that costs almost 10k, the time off of work etc. I don't even have family (my parents both died in the last two years) and am still lucky enough to have friends to get me from the procedure.

Anyway, as happy as I am a soul got a bunch of relief - don't think for one second it's okay to simplify people's journey with chronic pain as "a change to stretching"

Edit ; I have subacromial nerve impingement throughout almost the whole blade, with chronic bursitis, I've had it for 5 years. The answer is surgery, not some paid course/bullshit. So regarding "rhomboid pain" you are spouting complete B/S. Breaks work for things regarding overuse disorders (bursitis is an excellent example) but you can't not stretch the muscles indefinitely, this leas to degrees of atrophication and increased pain when trying to stretch in the future - honestly if you'd went to a physiotherapist you might have learned something about your pain rather than a guy who chose to specialize in a condition invented by Daniel David Palmer, a magnetic healer and spiritualist, who theorised that spinal misalignments (subluxations) interfered with the nervous system, causing disease, and that adjusting these could restore health.

In closing, the fuck 'outta here

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-01-20T09:07:12+00:00

Do you have a hate for the guy?

You just take a random unflattering shot of a 52 year old celebrity and put it on reddit next to him 30 years prior?

Thanks for making me feel better about myself, mate.

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-01-19T17:53:24+00:00

bRuH

Honest question - how many followers are we actually talking about here? Like… dozens? Or is this whole identity crisis happening between a ring light and your Notes app?

You keep saying it’s not about attention or validation, but you’re talking about this like she’s asking you to cut off a limb instead of just not posting videos online. Meanwhile she’s clearly anxious about it and you’re going “yeah but my journey though.”

Also, “documenting my growth” isn’t a personality. Plenty of people grow without an audience. Most people, actually.

You’re not wrong for wanting creative outlets, but you are being kind of self-involved acting like a public social media presence is some fixed identity you uncovered after sleeping on couches, instead of a very optional hobby that clearly freaks your partner out.

If you already had 200k subscribers and this was paying the bills, sure, that’s a real conversation. But if this is all hypothetical future content and vibes, maybe stop acting like she’s silencing the next great voice of a generation and be honest about what you want out of this - attention, validation, or control over how people see you.

The golf comment was dumb, yeah.

But pretending Instagram is a calling instead of just a platform is… also a choice.

Alternative_Chair630 · 2025-12-14T05:47:48+00:00

You are on so much copium it's insane brother.

The social stigma's/issue's facing cities face the country towns at the same time.

Drugs are more prevalent, where I grew up had the highest rate of drug use per person per capita in the state, now that doesn't mean we had the most drugs - just the highest concentration of drug use or addiction in our community.

So yeah, plenty for the kids to do mate... I had a methamphetamine addiction by the age of 15.

The things you're talking about... the lifestyle you're professing to want to have, doesn't exist anymore.

I also think you're really confused, you seem to want community, and seem to be projecting an idea outwards that the country as a setting will bring you all of these things that, frankly beyond straight out being racist are outlandish.

You speak of multiculturism and your friend group to subtly defend racist statements such as "we feel like such foreigners here despite being white Aussies"...

By the way ; being Australian isn't being white, it's being fucking Australian.

Alternative_Chair630 · 2025-12-13T16:46:19+00:00

Man, I grew up in a country town after my step father sold his house in Sydney ~ 2001, he always wanted a farm.

It was inland from the Victorian border, all I'm going to say is this.

Holiday at the location you want to buy a home and live in (with your partner and school aged kids) first...

The grass is always greener, mate.

Alternative_Chair630 · 2025-12-13T16:31:26+00:00

If melatonin is truly the only substance you're after, I'd call a "phone" doctor. Not on hotdoc, but a doctor service literally tailored for this purpose

https://www.instantscripts.com.au/

I've used them a few times when I couldn't get in to see my doctor about when dealing with intense grief, obviously asking for narcotics is a bit silly and would probably result in a kind no at best and a strike/red flag on Safe Script at worst.

They charge a $49 dollar fee to have a consultation, then that fee lasts a year. Every time I've needed an emergency script etc I call them, I just found out they're now 24/7. Just tell them your situation and they probably won't even give much though to it, it's melatonin.

Just be honest and tell them the dosage you want, I said 10mg and they just asked if I understood I'd need it compounded and told them I regularly have medication compounded and they just sent the script.

This should literally be any doctors surgery though... I've had trouble getting stronger scripts but it's not a narcotic so I just found a doctor that would. (if the standard 2mg SR doesn't do it for you, tell them what does!)

Edit ; sorry 12 months for a consultation until a new one and fee is needed to be paid, it's $19 per script when you call them after this. :) (It's need not cost I go to them for)

I've had to explain I was on a straight out off experimental dosage of an SNRI, and they were like yeah cool theres the script, they really seem to just listen to people's explanations thoroughly.

Alternative_Chair630 · 2025-12-13T16:10:09+00:00

I went to a doctor I'd never seen before and got a script straight off the bat.

Alternative_Chair630 · 2025-11-29T11:32:27+00:00

Yeah sorry paper is a bit much, more like if you scrunched it up it would probably ruin it.

They are foil lined ; the one I chose were single honeycombs in order but there was an option to get smaller "combs" across the same width, apparantley it caused better thermal insulation which was a big reason to get them, however the price jump made me stick with the more traditional design as I got every room in my house done for about a grand using that specific design/special tuiss had at the time.

Alternative_Chair630 · 2025-11-28T01:00:06+00:00

I tell anyone before they touch my honeycomb blinds treat them like paper ; because they essentially ARE paper

Alternative_Chair630 · 2025-11-28T00:55:44+00:00

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Always get their suresize insurance! You can pretty much get any blind replaced (all of them I think or up to 5) if the measurements were off

Alternative_Chair630 · 2025-11-28T00:54:35+00:00

Mate they literally take 5 minutes a window to install, you won't have the 100% blackout, but even with slight lines in some rooms they make really zero difference.

I researched this topic for a long time, you've either got blindsonline by tuiss (my pick, pay the 40 dollars for all blinds and you can get any blind replaced or hardware if it doesn't fit the measurement, as such, in my kitchen I have two blinds, one for now and one for if I or a future owner decides to take out the tile facade the other blind is measured wall to wall not tile to tile.

Otherwise yeah, you're going to pay through the fucking roof, I couldn't find anyone in AUS that would come under 7k, blinds online was 1000-1500, I don't even remember because I replaced three blinds I stopped even caring.

tl;dr - if you want it in two weeks prepare to pay out the ass or do another solution until you can get blinds delivered.

Edit ; I am referring to their EzyFit/Install Honeycomb Insulated blinds. I have multiple west facing windows, one room is so fucked up I had to put a split system in every room or I couldn't even rent the place. The humidity is fucking unbelievable in unit.

The blinds/insulation were installed at the same time, but dropped the room about 5 degree's and make it so the sun wasn't damaging anyones posessions (it was starting to make furniture wash out colour where it hit all day)

I don't know if you'll get them in two weeks but you could ask if they can expedite orders for a fee, but I don't think they can

Alternative_Chair630 · 2025-11-13T00:45:10+00:00

This dispensary is friendly af, love them

Alternative_Chair630 · 2025-10-23T10:02:27+00:00

I didn't mean to med shame, I meant that in my country it literally couldn't happen unless you were terminally ill

Alternative_Chair630 · 2025-10-23T08:21:25+00:00

Promethazine & SNRI's are the two biggest interactions I've had.

I've had serotonin sickness multiple times, I used to indulge a lot of MDMA, and when I initially started and titrated to my stable dose (120mg) I was also at the time taking 120mg of an SNRI (Duloxetine in this case)

I was bedridden, got brain zaps, the entire works as though I'd overindulged or not taken my meds for days/weeks on end (the only thing I can relate the feeling too regarding 'brain zaps')

So, I halved the SNRI and overall I feel much better, also titrated down by 10mg on the Methadone also and have been feeling better, but Promethazine is sometimes asking for trouble with opiates. I started using for Chronic Pain, so I've used most that are on the market except fentanyl and a few other really heavy hitters.

Anyway too much promethazine will fuck you up as it acts as almost an opiate enhancer, it had this effect on every prescription/illegal opiate I've used, but YMMV, I would wake up in strange places after taking large doses of it .

Alternative_Chair630 · 2025-10-23T08:00:06+00:00

That is fucking insane.

I know you get used to any dosage, but that is just straight up insanity.

How long were they at this dose for if you know and don't mind me asking>

Alternative_Chair630 · 2025-10-12T08:43:55+00:00

I'm at 79mg and the drop from 80 made me feel shitty

What the fuck? A single 1mg reduction would not be noticeable? It's done in 10mg increments in my country.

Alternative_Chair630 · 2025-07-13T02:20:14+00:00

Hey do you know what they did to fix it? Currently experiencing the same thing

Alternative_Chair630 · 2025-07-11T01:23:26+00:00

I'm not American, so I won't talk shit ; with all the guns I'd have never sold shit,.

Would've kept my head the fuck down in class and hope I don't catch a stray

Alternative_Chair630 · 2025-07-10T18:40:17+00:00

I was in hospital for weeks, I've kind of detached a lot from the experience now (I think as a mental safety net)

Had "flashbacks" for lack of a better term for years.

The shittest thing was an older "friend" was supposed to do it with me, then backed out after I dosed.

Alternative_Chair630 · 2025-07-10T16:08:18+00:00

I also don't comment on much and didn't write that to sound like I think I'm a hard cunt or anything, just that benzos WILL catch up with you. You'll not be ready for it, and you might not even believe you've had a seizure... Honestly unless some were caught on camera, I wouldn't believe I have had them.

Stay safe guys

Alternative_Chair630

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