Air conditioning

[lee_fr200]

Nothing to do with the current lovely weather BUT we have a 4 bed detached home that is like an oven in summer,

We're starting our project next spring but before I ring anyone up and waste anyone's time what sort of prices to have it ducted throughout the whole house similar to what you get in houses in America with floor or wall vents?

Or how much am I looking roughly to do 4 bedrooms and our landing with those wall mounted type?

I'm thinking about 5k-10k or is my budget way off?

[lee_fr200]

Alucidnation said:

I am going to be fitting a mini split in our bedroom and lounge soon.

I love the hot weather, but these two rooms have big windows and the sun on them all day.

We have been out for the evening and just got back.

Checking now, the bedroom is near 30 degrees.

fk that.

Ours is like that now whereas downstairs is quite cool but the 2 fans we have are in the boys bedrooms to keep them cool and me and the missus are roasting

[lee_fr200]

drewklonky said:

I am not sure it is possible with wall or floor vents. Your best option would be fitting the vents in the ceiling and fitting two ducted units in the loft space .

That's quite a good idea, thanks

[lee_fr200]

I fit a split system with my dad in his bedroom about 13yr ago and apart from drilling the big hole through the wall it was easy going, but didn't want to go this route as 2-4 chillers to satisfy just upstairs would be unsightly, and the excess pipework between the chiller and the wall system was just stupid (luckily we could hide his under gravel)

I like the idea of something in the loft with roof ducts as each bedroom is very easily accessible in the loft space and I wouldn't mind split systems downstairs but when I knock the kitchen and dining room into one it will also go into a extension so it would probably need a fairly powerful system

[lee_fr200]

Yeah thats similar to the 2 we have

Going to look into these loft units and multi split systems

[lee_fr200]

Don't want to sound awful but my neighbours are the least of my concerns, I've contacted our local air con company to see what they come up with I might let them design it and price it all up then look at doing the main install myself I don't see that it can be that hard especially ducted for the bedrooms even easier with a multi split system if I can use 5 units off 1 chiller as I could run the lines in trunking outside upto the loft then feed each unit in each bedroom,

Downstairs would be a little harder and would no doubt have to take floorboards up in the bedrooms,might be best with a few ceiling fans downstairs as it's never rly a problem down there it's just a more attractive position long term if the whole house had it

[lee_fr200]

Alucidnation said:

Is that a fairly recent thing then?

I seem to remember seeing them before but god knows where!

The last ones I did, the pipes weren't charged and the air had to be bled out at the outdoor unit.

The split system my dad has was pre charged and that was 12-15yr ago that we fit his

[lee_fr200]

I'm budgeting between 5-10k

I've booked an appointment with a company to come have a chat