If you’ve never heard of mini split systems, now’s the time to learn about these mini marvels. Ductless mini splits are the 2-in-1 heating and cooling system you didn’t know you needed. That’s right, one system can provide both cooling and heating to your Little Mountain, SC home. With air handlers in each room, they also provide amazing comfort control.
You might think that something that can both heat and cool might not do either thing as well as an air conditioner or a furnace. With our hot, humid summers, we can understand why that might be a concern.
But when you know that a mini split is essentially an air conditioner with an extra feature, this fear should be assuaged. It’s true that in extremely cold climates, a mini split’s performance can suffer. Mini splits are actually ideal for climates like ours: hot summers and mild winters.
If you own a home and you don’t have a system of ductwork in place, then chances are that you are making due with window unit air conditioners. This is far from ideal. These units are noisy, they leave your home vulnerable to intruders, and they can cost a surprising amount of money to run. Yes, they have their uses—cooling a small studio apartment, a single dorm room, and so on. For a whole house, however, a whole-house cooling system is definitely preferable.
One of the benefits of living in our area is that the winter season tends to come and go fairly quickly. While many areas of the country are bracing for more frigid temperatures still to come, residents in South Carolina are already looking forward to the Spring warm up. Before long, we’ll even be reaching for the thermostat in order to cool our homes down with our air conditioners. If you hope to do so successfully, you may need to replace that old