Hey folks,
Apologies if my questions are ignorant, first time home owner and don’t know much about these things. I am looking to find out if my idea is possible or suggested. Bought a house last year and noticed the house gets pretty warm in the summer.
We have what looks to be a mini-split system - wall mounted unit that shoots out cold air. There is no central air (not common in this area or when these houses were being built), but we do have an air circulator system.
The wall unit is located at the top corner of the central stairwell but the way our house is laid out, it doesn’t do a good job of getting cool air into the upstairs bedrooms or the mid-level main bedroom because it is around the corner of the stairs and then opens up into a much bigger room.
I have noticed that all the rooms (aside from the main bedroom) have an exhaust for the air circulator system. My thought are, is it possible to leverage those ducts and connect the mini split system to it, that way cool air can flow through the air circulator system into the bedroom.
It doesn’t really solve the main bedroom issue, for that we might need to add another wall mounted unit directly in the bedroom since summers are humid here and a fan doesn’t often cut it.
What do you think?
Bet it will cool the ducts down and warm air goes into the rooms…
One split is probably undersized for all those rooms
Yeah I think the split isn’t enough for the house, not sure how they withstood the humid temperatures through the summer, especially the kids rooms. Can’t see how many BTU’s the current system is but probably going to need to upgrade that unit and add more wall units. Unsure what to do about the kids rooms at night though with there doors closed there is no way the cold air will get in and a fan will only push the hot air around. We have a portable AC that looks like a mini-fridge, but my concern is leaving that in room with the toddler as I want to avoid an accident of it falling onto her.