With the price of oil and electricity going up, my husband and I had been discussing installing ductless HVAC into our home.
With the solar panels, we wouldn’t need to worry so much about the cost of electricity.
We knew we could generate enough solar energy to pay for half the cost. Our issue was coming up with the cost they wanted for ductless HVAC. When the HVAC technician showed up to do the inspection on our air conditioning unit, I told him I had a few questions. I wanted to know if we could put ductless HVAC in just one room and finish the rest of the house over the next two years. He didn’t understand why we couldn’t. He asked where we would like to have the ductless HVAC system installed. My husband said he was thinking about the basement. He had his work room down there, and it was really humid in the summer. We didn’t have air conditioning in the house, and there were no windows where he could install an air conditioning unit that would keep the basement cool. He was using a humidifier all the time, and he hoped a ductless HVAC system would help to cool the basement and get rid of the excess humidity. In the winter, he would sit down there and freeze while working. He couldn’t block off just one room to heat, and if the ductless HVAC would take care of the cooling and heating, we could then add more later. The HVAC technician told him he could give us an estimate for the unit and how many indoor units we needed. He would also include the installation and two years of maintenance. My husband is going to order his ductless HVAC system next month.