Are Mini Split Air Conditioners Worth It? Pros & Cons of Ductless Mini Splits. 

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I researched ductless mini splits for months when I was looking at replacing my RUUD central air. If you have a smart electric meter on your home go look at your KWH usage for an entire year. You will see that your heat-pump was sucking electricity all winter as well as summer. We live in FL so winters are not bad but the heat-pump was still running up the electric bill in winter. My electric averaged $300 month all year. Long story short I installed an 18K ductless in the living room / kitchen area, a 12K in the master bedroom and a 9K in the guest bedroom, all separate units. This is for a 1650 sq. ft. house and those 3 mini splits are cooling the house better than the central air ever did. Just like he said.....we can turn off the units that we are not using. At night when we go to bed we turn off the 18K in the living room and close the bedroom door. My electric bill has gone down from $10 - $16 a day to $4 -$6 a day even in August. I cannot report on winter yet because we just installed them this summer. The smaller units are using about $22 a month in electric and the bigger 18K is using about $25 month. Ductless mini splits are the best thing I could have done to this house. My old RUUD R-22 system is turned off but I kept it in case we need it for an emergency back-up system. BTW good video! You explained ductless mini splits very well.

Finally got it up and running. The only delays we had was because we realized we needed some extra parts (I’ll list that below) ru-vid.comUgkxihMYiJNXcHdbH-7ihymsLz61l7jVyb5O . So we have a loft where our current hvac just couldn’t seem to keep cool during the summer. We have been using a window unit since we bought this house over 6 years ago (all the houses in this neighborhood were built in the 80’s and majority of the houses built like ours use a window unit). I hate window units because they are just so noisy and the one we had really only cools one side of the loft. I had contemplated upgrading our current HVAC, but with all the rising prices these days, it would take years before saving up enough to do that. With the advice of my father-in-law (used to run an HVAC business), he recommended we get an inverter instead. We thought we bought everything we needed, but there were just a few other parts we didn’t anticipate needing (which is what caused most of our delay). My friend and father-in-law did all the work to get it installed and running and now we have nice cool air circulating nicely throughout the entire loft. It is very quiet and even the outside unit is much quieter than our main HVAC unit. Saved ourselves thousands getting this.

Brilliant video !!

The installation prices for Mini or multi split systems in the US is criminal. They are far easier to install than a proper ducted central system that is often installed and balanced poorly by incompetent HVAC techs anyway.

Not true a central system cost about $8,000 alone and the duct work for it is like an extra $5,000+ itll be cheaper to just do split units

I have concern about mini split in peak ceiling area with adjacent room separated by wall with open archway. How well will one head work to cool both areas?

The reason why they choose minisplits and the only real reason is because they build homes out of concrete or full brick walls so it’s too expensive to install duct work in old home or even new homes. Because it would be rare for someone to do so they don’t sell duct work in stores or the systems for that one guy who might want to install a centeral system. So if someone wants to they have to custom order from outside the country.

How do I know how much room I can cool with a specific ductless unit? I have an open plan house and would like to cool the large living area, roughly 30 by 30, as well as one bedroom. I haven’t been able to find this information as of yet.

Would you recommend PTAC or single head Mitsubishi hm split?

How do you get air flow filtration?

Most of these mini splits use a window air conditioner type fliter right? If so that not going to give you cleaner air then a actual filter, just more maintenance in cleaning them all the time.

Hope fast does the air flow

You miss several points 1. Far less energy to operate 30 amps at the breaker 2. Easy to install There are companies that a DIY type can install with per charged lines. 3. The problem is for the consumer is that the companies installing are charging way to much for both the product and the installation

Okay for AC! If you need heat also you will over pay every day!