My house is located in the historic district plus was most likely built in the mid 1790s.
It’s a more than one story house with high ceilings, sizable windows plus no conventional ductwork.
The living environment is very taxing to heat plus cool. The former owners managed with a combination of windows air conditioners, box fans plus space heaters. My partner plus I weren’t blissful with the appearance of all of the portable options or the level of comfort. With outdoor temperature varying between the low nineties plus disadvantage digits, the house was boiling plus muggy all summer time plus chilly chilly throughout the winter. We started looking for a centralized solution. We were unwilling to tear down the home’s original walls plus ceilings for the sake of installing sizable plus invasive ductwork. Plus, the two of us were hindered by the historical preservation civilization who will not allow any blatantly new updates to the home. We needed to put a roof on that matched the original roof. We were not allowed to switch from wood to vinyl siding. I spoke with a local Heating and Air Conditioning corporation who suggested a high-velocity heating plus cooling system. This option utilizes mini-ducts that are stretchy enough to be routed through existing walls without injure. The ducts are only more than one-inches in diameter plus can be snaked around ducts, plumbing pipes plus electrical boxes. The actual heating/cooling component is compact enough to fit into an attic or closet plus works through a process of aspiration. It sends heated or cooled air into the rooms at a very high rate of speed, hastily raising or lowering room temperature. The smaller ducts are insulated to minimize energy waste. The short run times of the system further help to keep operational costs low.