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?
Ah good point, I didn’t think of the consequences of mixing the different air temperatures through the ducts. Ideally I would like to avoid blowing mold all throughout my children’s bedrooms.
The only quick fix here is getting a good floor fan and put it at the top of the stairs. If i understand correctly using a fan for circulating air should be done by pulling the air (ie setting it at the top of the stairs) rather than close to the mini split and blowing the air where you want it. Running the exhaust fans should also help to do this exact thing by pulling the hot air out of the ceiling areas and allowing the cooled air from other rooms to enter the bedrooms
Unfortunately with the house layout there isn’t a good spot to put a fan at the top of the stairs as it will block the narrow hallway that exists between the bedrooms as well can’t put it on the stairs because they are spiral.