Browse Forums Heating, Cooling & Insulation 1 Oct 14, 2010 12:24 pm Hi I am looking to put air conditioning in to service the first floor of my double story home. There are 4 bedrooms upstairs and a living area. The entire house already has ducted gas heating. I intend to have refrigerated rather than evaporative. My options are: 1. a single split system 2. a multi split system 3. a ducted sytem Any suggestions? My budget is limited so I want to get the best value option. I live in Melbourne Thanks Re: Air conditioning - first floor of double story home 2Oct 14, 2010 12:42 pm buckrogers Hi I am looking to put air conditioning in to service the first floor of my double story home. There are 4 bedrooms upstairs and a living area. The entire house already has ducted gas heating. I intend to have refrigerated rather than evaporative. My options are: 1. a single split system 2. a multi split system 3. a ducted sytem Any suggestions? My budget is limited so I want to get the best value option. I live in Melbourne Thanks A single split isn't going to do 4 bedrooms... a multi-split with 4 heads will cost pretty much the same as a ducted system to do the whole upstairs... I'd go the ducted... Re: Air conditioning - first floor of double story home 3Oct 14, 2010 12:50 pm I would think that any bedroom on the east or north would not need air conditioning. I would go for one (or two) dual head split systems. Ducting would cost a lot to put the ducts in. Demolition August 2009, Construction Started September 2009, Completed December 2010 Re: Air conditioning - first floor of double story home 4Oct 14, 2010 2:46 pm Consider also how you intend to use them... are all 4 bedrooms going to be used at the same time? Or will it be mainly 1 or 2 in use and the others occasionally used? Splits are best for just cooling the area you need cooled, ducted does the whole area in one go (except for zoned and that is probably more complex than required here). Probably best to get several reputable places comes and look and recommend/quote some options. Status: sold our first house, moved in with parents, bought our second in Pakenham, still planning to build in a few years time. Anybody know any good and reasonably priced Air conditioning contractors/companies that could install a ducted air conditioning system in the Central Coast NSW for a small… 0 8987 We bought land in Tallawong Schofields NSW size 30m X 12.5m and planning to get double story house build around 350 sqm. We are thinking about having premium inclusions… 0 4083 Hi, We have a single story MacDonald Jones house, on a waffle pod slab with steel frame. Are we able to build a second story extension? Other info is we are 900mm from… 0 8444 |