MINI SPLIT BENEFITS

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Are you having difficulty making your four-season room, addition, or garage comfortable? Do you just want to be able to control the temperature in each room? Then a mini-split might be the answer to your problems.

You may have heard about ductless mini-splitsand wondered about their cost, efficiency, or benefits compared to a traditional air conditioner, heat pump, or furnace. You’re not alone.

What is a ductless mini-split?

Mini-splits have two main components: an outdoor compressor/condenser and an indoor air-handling unit. A conduit, which houses the power cable, refrigerant tubing, suction tubing, and condensate drain, links the outdoor and indoor units. Usually, this conduit is covered by a Line-Hide, which offers protection.

Rooms That Benefit the Most from Ductless Mini-Splits

A typical application is a primary bedroom or bonus room above a garage. It’s under-insulated and susceptible to outside temperatures. Getting a duct out there is complex, and ducts can’t be run in garages.

Maybe you want the temperature in your master bedroom at 65, but you want the house to be 70 degrees. If you set the thermostat to 65, the whole house cools, not just one room. With a ductless mini-split, you’re not running up your electric bill to try to cool your master bedroom. The rest of the house won’t be cold as well.

If you were to build an addition, you are increasing the load on the total system if you add ductwork. (Even if you don’t add ductwork, the overall square footage has changed, and your system may become under-sized, which means the whole house suffers.) Supplemental heating and cooling may be the solution if that maxes out your current system.

Many people want to convert a three-season room into a livable space. A ductless mini-split head would help with the temperature balance. A lot of people convert garages into gyms. So you can work out in comfort.

The office may be teeming with monitors, a printer, and other electronics for people working from home. Want to keep it cooler without resorting to a room air conditioner? The benefit of a ductless system is that it can be a one-to-one zoned comfort.

1. Ductless systems are more efficient than air conditioners or heat pumps.The biggest reason for this is you’re controlling one room at a time instead of the whole house. For example, maybe you have a three-bedroom house, and all three people like to be at different temperatures. One person likes it at 68, another likes it at 70, and another wants it at 75. So you can keep the house at a moderate temperature and cool those rooms separately. Then, instead of wasting energy trying to cool the whole home, you can just cool the bedrooms.
2. It’s environmentally friendlybecause it’s so efficient. If a room doesn’t need to be cooled, you can shut off that part of the system. It requires less energy.
3. The dual split vane design is designed for directional airflow. So, for example, if it’s mounted offset on a wall, you can have the vents point the other way, so you don’t lose 30% of the airflow as it hits the wall first.
4. They offer flexibility. The units can heat and cool. So, just like a heat pump, they can make you comfortable year-round. And, when it’s in air conditioning mode, it removes excess humidity from your house.
5. They don’t need to be installed on walls. Instead, floor and ceiling heads give mini-splits versatility.
6. They are scalable. You can heat/cool as many rooms as possible, from just one to a whole house.
7. As mentioned before, they are versatile enough to heat/cool the problem areas of your home without ductwork. However, your central air conditioner and furnace can do only so much. Ductless mini-splits can focus on the areas where they are deficient