Until a couple of years ago, my partner and I had never heard of high-velocity heating and cooling. Owning an older lake new home offered us limited possibilities for centralized temperature control. Our lake new home was constructed sometime during the mid 1740s and is not outfitted with a duct system. The studs in many of the walls were turned sideways to create a larger residing space. Because the walls are especially narrow, they won’t accommodate conventional HVAC duct. My partner and I were unwilling to tear down our walls and ceilings and get into a major, messy and super fancy remodeling project, but for multiple years, the people I was with and I struggled to achieve comfort by way of window air conditioners, box fans and electric baseboard heaters. The weather extremes in our local part meant that our new home was hot during the Summer months and chilly over the winter. I also hated the appearance of the portable heating and cooling options. I was absolutely ecstatic when I came across high-velocity temperature control. This style of heating and cooling system was developed recognizably for historical homes. It features flexible mini-ducts that are only several-inches in diameter. These tubes can be inserted into existing walls and snaked around obstacles such as studs, plumbing pipes and electrical lines, without causing destruction. The ducts connect to six-inch diameter, round vents that are available in all sorts of styles and allow freedom of location. The heating/cooling device is compact enough to install into a closet. The system works through a process called aspiration that suddenly raises or lowers room temperature, making high-velocity heating/cooling really energy efficient. The two of us are glad to have the ability to adjust a central temperature control.