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Split Decision
Ductless heating and cooling systems can solve cold or hot rooms in homes BY ERIC SPANGLER
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any residential air conditioners and heating units do an excellent job of keeping the majority of the home cool in the summer and warm in the winter. But in many homes there’s that one room that’s never quite cool enough in the summer or warm enough in the winter. “That’s a hot topic,” says Amanda Kinsella, marketing director for Logan A/C and Heat Services. “They may have a truly properly working system for their home but there’s this one hard to reach or hard to cool or heat up room,” she says. Because each house is different the solution is not always the same. But there’s one system that seems to solve the problem in the majority of the homes—ductless heating and cooling units. Comprised of a small outdoor unit and one or more indoor units that require nothing more than a mounting location and
access to electricity, ductless heating and cooling units offer a cost-effective way to replace inefficient window air conditioning units, space heaters and electric baseboard heaters, says Chris Cantrell, service manager with Logan A/C and Heat Services. Also known as split systems, minisplit systems, multisplit systems or split-ductless systems, ductless heating and cooling units deliver cool air in the summer and warm air in the winter directly to those problem-area rooms. “It’s not like we just go in and we design a system to do the same thing for every single person because every house and every person is different,” says Cantrell. “It’s kind of individual to the house and to the people because we customize the system for their comfort.” The ductless heating and cooling systems are efficient because they deliver DAYTON MAGAZINE . October/November 2019
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