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I would agree with Galacia - it's nice to have the bathrooms and closets cooled down. Aren't the in-room air handlers just as obtrusive as a window unit ?
Old school a/c installation would nnot intall a/c in bathrooms. Condensation form the cold air after a hot shower would leave the diffuser dripping wet.
But with better ventilation and bigger baths, I see it in all new construction.
i personally grew up in a house with CAC and its great. it might be a bit costly to cool the whole house and i would only use the living room and bedroom. i live in a 3 bedroom house now but i only use one room and the living room. i didnt get zones installed so its either on or off...
i was looking into geting the ductless for the new house i am planning purchasing as it does not have any ductwork. saw there is a recessed unit. it is a 3 bedroom house so i was planning on going with a 5 zone unit. one zone for each bedroom and then one for the livingroom/dining/kitchen then one more zone for the den. not sure if i need a zone for the basement as it is unfinished now and might want to finish it so i have some space of my own... maybe 6 zones?
thanks for the help guys i think the ductless is the more "modern" unit?? and i think it's about half the price. i will have to look into it. will my taxes go up because of the CAC or the ductless units??
We are also considering going with a mini-split system. Right now we have baseboard heat and window AC units (and a 40 year old through the wall unit in one room). We'd like to reduce our heating bill, reclaim the walls for furniture placement that the baseboard currently uses, and be able to have a conversation when the AC is going. We've considered installing central furnace and A/C systems, but the intersecting steel beams in our house mean that we'd have to surface mount the ductwork on the ceiling of the first floor. We don't have an attic so that isn't an option either.
The mini-splits should allow us to solve many of our problems. I think doing an entire house with minisplits would be ultimately more expensive and less efficient than central systems, but when retro-fitting sometimes the central system is not as viable an option. I realize that in our climate there are quite a few days when the heat-pump won't be running and it will just be resistance heat, but resistance heat is what we have now, so that isn't much of a downside.
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