Electric Small Heat Pump
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Electric Small Heat Pump
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#2"Someone finally made a heat pump that looks good inside your home"
The internal air handler unit looks exactly the same as any other manufacturer. It's still ugly, and it still sticks out and doesn't integrate as nicely as ducted HVAC systems. Wouldn't homes just benefit more from replacing their existing furnace+AC systems with a heat pump if it's necessary, rather than installing mini splits in each zone and running refrigerant pipes all over the outside of the housing structure.
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#3What does this system give you over regular mini-splits? The outdoor unit on the Quilt only does two rooms. Best I can tell, then, for our small 1200 sq/ft house, we'd need a minimum of two outdoor units, probably three. And our house is a shoebox, not the 4000 sq/ft monstrosities that are common in the area. Or for $5000 from Home Depot, I can get a single outdoor unit that will drive four indoor units.
On top of the fact that anyone walking into that room will immediately think "oh, you got a mini-split!" because there's still a box hanging on the wall. Again, what am I buying here?
And at $6500/room, great googly moogly! This is either DOA or I'm missing a fundamental piece of the value.
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#4> For a three-bedroom house, say you were looking at installing it in six rooms (each bedroom, a kitchen, living room, and dining room — Quilt doesn’t recommend them in bathrooms) — it could cost close to $40,000.
Nobody is going to do this. Not unless they're duped into it.
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#5> For a three-bedroom house, say you were looking at installing it in six rooms (each bedroom, a kitchen, living room, and dining room — Quilt doesn’t recommend them in bathrooms) — it could cost close to $40,000. Nobody is going to do this. Not unless they're duped into it.
In NYC to get 3 condensers and 6 internal units PRE-REBATE my top line price was close to $40k. So it doesn't seem far off of what I was quoted 2 years ago?
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#6> For a three-bedroom house, say you were looking at installing it in six rooms (each bedroom, a kitchen, living room, and dining room — Quilt doesn’t recommend them in bathrooms) — it could cost close to $40,000. Nobody is going to do this. Not unless they're duped into it.
A split for a single room should not be more than a $1000.
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#7What are those prices?
Looking at cheapest units here in Nordics. 695€ install from 899€ unit... Which is suitable for 85 m^2... So I am not exactly sure what sort of rooms need two units...
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#8Slapping a piece of plywood with oak veneer onto the air handler doesn’t make it look any less like an air handler.
$6,500 per mini-split installed is quite high, a mini-split requires mounting the air handler and condenser, drilling two holes through an exterior wall, connecting the line sets, and sealing the holes; plus electrical wiring. $3,500-4,000 is what I would expect to pay if the mini split cost around $1,000: 8 hours max each to mechanical and electrical contractors ($150/hr) plus material and profit.
This company is marketing towards people with more money than sense who will be impressed by “wi-fi” and some oak veneer.
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#9"Someone finally made a heat pump that looks good inside your home" The internal air handler unit looks exactly the same as any other manufacturer. It's still ugly, and it still sticks out and doesn't integrate as nicely as ducted HVAC systems. Wouldn't homes just benefit more from replacing their existing furnace+AC systems with a heat pump if it's necessary, rather than installing mini splits in each zone and runni…
> Wouldn't homes just benefit more from replacing their existing furnace+AC systems with a heat pump if it's necessary, rather than installing mini splits in each zone and running refrigerant pipes all over the outside of the housing structure.
Yes, if you have an existing forced air system you can get a heat pump sized for your furnace instead of doing mini-splits. You could probably just replace the condenser with the heat pump, since a heat pump is just an air conditioner that can run in reverse. The coils inside the furnace may need to be replaced for the heat pump.
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#10What does this system give you over regular mini-splits? The outdoor unit on the Quilt only does two rooms. Best I can tell, then, for our small 1200 sq/ft house, we'd need a minimum of two outdoor units, probably three. And our house is a shoebox, not the 4000 sq/ft monstrosities that are common in the area. Or for $5000 from Home Depot, I can get a single outdoor unit that will drive four indoor units. On top of th…
indeed, it’s the Aesthetics.
Regular mini split heads are huge. They are really visible. It’s a really big turn off to many buyers.