Vintec ESPACE3000-KIT, ESPACE1000-KIT, ESPACE1500-KIT, ESPACE2000-KIT, ESPACE2500-KIT User Manual

User Manual

Espace Walk-in Cellar

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ESPACE1000-KIT

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Welcome

Safety

Thank you for your purchase of a Vintec product.
We take particular care in manufacturing our
products in terms of their design, ergonomics and
ease of use. We hope that you will be completely

satised with this product.

This wine cellar, together with its conditioning unit, is not
intended for use by persons (including children) with reduced
physical, sensory or mental capabilities, or lack of experience
and knowledge, unless they have been given supervision
or instruction concerning use of the appliance by a person
responsible for their safety. Children should be supervised to
ensure that they do not play inside the cellar or with any of
its components.

GENERAL WARNINGS:

• Do not use electrical appliances inside the cellar,
unless they have been recommended in writing by
the manufacturer.

• Do not store explosive substances inside the cellar

appliance such as aerosols containing ammable

propellant gas.

R404A REFRIGERANT WARNING:

This appliance contains R404a refrigerant. Avoid safety
hazards by carefully installing, handling, servicing and
disposing of this appliance.

• Ensure that the tubing of the refrigerant circuit is not
damaged during transportation and installation.

• The room for installing appliance must be at least 1m
per 8g of refrigerant. The amount of refrigerant charged
in the appliance can be found on the rating plate on the
appliance.

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• Keep ventilation openings in the appliance enclosure,
or in the built-in structure, clear of obstruction.

Important information that may impact your Manufacturer’s Warranty

Adherence to the directions for use in this manual is extremely important for health and safety.
Failure to strictly adhere to the requirements in this manual may result in personal injury,
property damage and affect your ability to make a claim under the Vintec manufacturer’s
warranty provided with your product. Products must be used, installed and operated in
accordance with this manual. You may not be able to claim on the Vintec manufacturer’s
warranty in the event that your product fault is due to failure to adhere to this manual.

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Contents

Description of your wine cellar 3

Cellar 3
Conditioner 3

Power supply 4

Caring for the environment and saving energy 4

Installing your cellar 5

Dimensions 5
Preparation for installation 6
Components list 8
Assembly procedure 11

Technical specications 17

Maintenance 17

Loading and storing your wine 18

Setting your cellar's temperature 19

Notes 20

Warranty 22

Standard wine serving temperatures (°C)

French

Alsace 10°
Beaujolais 13°
Sweet white Bordeaux 6°
Dry white Bordeaux 8°
Bordeaux reds 17°
Burgundy whites 11°
Burgundy reds 14°
Champagne 6°
Jura 10°
Languedoc-Roussillon 13°
Provence Rosé 12°
Savoie 9°
Dry white Loire wines 13°
Sweet white Loire wines 7°
Loire reds 14°
Rhône wines 15°
Sweet wines from the South-West 7°
Reds from the South-West 15°
Sauternes 10°

Australian

Cabernet franc 16°
Cabernet sauvignon 17°
Chardonnay 10°
Merlot 17°
Muscat à petit grain 6°
Pinot noir 15°
Sauvignon blanc 8°
Semillon 8°
Shiraz 18°
Verdelho 7°

Other

Californian 16°
Chilean 15°
Spanish 17°
Italian 16°

For more information, visit vintecclub.com/best-temp

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Description of your wine cellar

Cellar

Exterior

Body

Door

Upper hinge

Conditioner unit

Lower hinge

Lock

Interior

Shelf runners

Vertical shelving supports

Shelves

Conditioner

Temperature display

Compressor operation
indicator

Abnormal temperature
alarm

Defrost cycle operation
indicator

Heater operation indicator

Decrease temperature

Set / mute

Standby / increase
temperature

Exhaust air outlet

Air intake

Interior Door

frame

Exterior

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Power supply

WARNING: For your personal safety, the wine cellar must

be correctly earthed. Ensure that the socket is correctly
earthed and that your installation is protected by a circuit
breaker (30mA residual current device).

In future, if you move the cellar to a foreign country, check that
the power supply characteristics of the conditioner correspond
to the destination country (voltage, frequency) – consult a local
electrician in that country for advice.

Caring for the environment and saving energy

Disposal of packaging

All packaging used by Vintec is made
from recyclable materials.

After unpacking your cellar, take the
packaging to a refuse collection point.
For the most part, it will be recycled.

Recycling: a caring gesture

Electrical and electronic equipment can have a harmful
effect on the environment and human health owing to the
presence of hazard ous substances. Therefore, you should
never trash electronic and electrical equipment with
unsorted municipal waste.

In compliance with legislation relating to protecting and
caring for the environment, your wine cellar does not use
CFCs.

To save energy

• Install your wine cellar in a suitable location
(see 'Installing your cellar') and observe the
recommended temperature ranges.

• Keep the door open for as short a time as possible.

• Ensure that the door seal is in good working order
and that it is not damaged. If it is, contact your
Vintec retailer.

• Disable any unusable appliances by unplugging them
and cutting off the power lead.

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Installing your cellar

Cellar dimensions

629 598 554

90

320

1860

11701870

53 (door)

85 (conditioner)

2050

1909

FRONT VIEW

Conditioner dimensions

540 286 514238

381

133

SIDE VIEW

150 462

320

374

524

INTERIOR VIEW

NOTE: Illustrations not to scale.

All dimensions in millimetres.

SIDE VIEW TOP VIEW

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Installing your cellar (cont'd)

Preparation for installation

CRITICAL WARNINGS:

• LOCATION FLOOR LOAD: This walk in cellar and

its contents are EXTREMELY heavy. It is vital that the

oor where it will be located is level and strong enough

to handle the load. For example, the Espace1000
base unit weighs 310kg installed, but loading in 1000
standard wine bottles adds a further static load of
approximately 1500kg. Each 500 bottle extension kit
weighs a further 150kg plus the extra wine weight
(~1.5kg per average bottle). if you are not certain of

the oor load capacity at the planned location We

recommend consulting an architect or structural
engineer to assess its strength before receiving
delivery or commencing assembly of your cellar.

• DELIVERY: Espace cellars are supplied at-packed in

solid wooden crates that weigh up to 400kg in total
(espace1000-kit) or a minimum of 150kg (espace1000­ext). Due to the crates’ weight and size, careful
consideration should be given to site accessibility, as
well as the safe lifting capacity of any equipment being
used to transport and manoeuvre the crates.

• ASSEMBLY: The cellar should be assembled in the

same room or space as its nal permanent location,

because once constructed it will be too wide to move
through a standard door opening.

IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS:

• Space for assembly: Allow ample room for assembly

of the cellar’s walls. The gap should be big enough to
allow the walls to be screwed together and for you to
move around it easily during assembly (see below).

500 min.

500 min. 500 min.

Conditioner

Door

TOP VIEW

NOTE: Once assembled, you can install the cellar into
a space with less or no space at the sides and back, as
long as you are able to move the cellar into that space

once assembled (will not t through a standard doorway).

See warning below regarding roof access.

Also allow enough clearance from the ceiling to lift and

t the roof of the cellar during assembly (see below).

500 min.

WARNING:

Once assembled
and installed,
you should

Conditioner

Door

ideally ensure
there is still
enough room

2500 min.

to allow access
to the electrical
power lead outlet
on the roof

(for more info
see 'Power' on
page 7).

SIDE VIEW

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Installing your cellar (cont'd)

• Direct sunlight/heat: The cellar (particularly the

conditioning unit) must never receive prolonged exposure
to direct sunlight or similar sources of intense heat.

• Ventilation: The external vents of the conditioning unit

must always have access to free owing cool air from

the underside (min 0°C, max 35°C ambient), and an
unobstructed passage for hot air to escape from the top
into a large space that will allow for heat dissipation (for
example a living room).

• Flooring: If the cellar is being installed during

construction or renovation, it is recommended that

installation is completed prior to laying any ooring

material that might be damaged, such as timber or carpet.

• Power: Should service ever be required, access to switch

off, disconnect and reconnect the power cable needs to be
possible. A normal install of this unit includes running the
conditioner power cable through the pre-cut access hole
(sealed with grommets during operation) located in the
roof of the cellar, immediately above the conditioning unit:

procedure’ on page 12. The cellar door itself is not
suitable for full integration or mounting behind cabinetry.

• Position of conditioner unit: Due to the interlocking
design of the wall panels, the conditioning unit can only
be installed next to the door on the front right side of
the cellar (when viewed from outside).

• Excess humidity/moisture removal: The conditioning
unit has an excess moisture run-off tube coming from
the underside of the conditioning unit (inside the cellar).
This must either be fed into a collection vessel (such as
an empty Champagne bottle) that is monitored/emptied
manually, or alternatively plumbed into your household
mains via gravity feed for automatic removal.

Mains plumbing is recommended for higher humidity
or tropical areas such as northern Queensland or the
Northern Territory.

If this is not possible, please ask a licensed and qualied

electrician to install a weatherproof power point inside
the cellar to provide power for the conditioner:

NOTE: Alternatively, hinged cabinetry is an ideal
aesthetic and functional solution to maintain access
to the cellar’s roof.

• Cellar door: The cellar door can be installed left or right
hand hinged – see warning after step 10 in the ‘Assembly

• Noise: The compressor on the conditioner unit works

24 hours a day, and makes a light humming sound,
similar to that of an air conditioning unit.

Other considerations:

• Filters: The conditioning unit has a lter which must be

periodically cleaned. This is accessed from the underside
of the conditioning unit, on the outside of the cellar.

Failure to maintain this lter may compromise cellar
efciency, performance and warranty.

• Lighting: The cellar is supplied with individual battery

operated LED downlights. If you choose to install
aftermarket or custom lighting solutions, we suggest the
use of LED lights with low UV and heat characteristics,
plus the use of timers or motion sensors to remove the
risk of lights being left on for long periods as this may
affect your wine.

• Conditioner unit nish: In addition to the ability to install

your own cabinetry in front of and around the majority of
the unit, you may choose to spray paint the outer housing of
the conditioning unit to match the colour of your cabinetry
or surrounding material. Please ensure that this outer
housing is removed from the working mechanisms of the
conditioning unit prior to any spray coatings being applied.

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