Re: Idea for safe room: ductless heating and cooling

[Guest guest]

From: barb1283

Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 12:24 PM

Subject: [] Idea for safe room: ductless heating and cooling

For those of you who were thinking of rebuilding, a new (?) ductless

heating and cooling system a builder told me about. Here are a

couple of links. My neighbor put a room addition on and has it and

likes it.

* Do you know what kind of maintenance is required for these to prevent the

distibution of mold spores? In particualar, how easy, and necessary, is it to

clean the indoor and outdoor portions? Thanks.

[Guest guest]

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My neighbor just put on an addition to their house and it wasn't

feasible to put ductwork from their furnace into new area so they

went with this solution. They added about 30% to the size of their

home, several rooms and a garage. I don't know them well. I asked

them who the builder was as I am considering a room addition

myself. She said she had an architect draw up the plans and then

hired a contractor to build it. She gave me the name of the

contractor only. He suggested same method to heat and cool addition

here as it would be over a slab and so ductwork could not come in

from basement where ductwork can run. For one room heating and

cooling you can also get one of those units you see in motels that

you can set thermostat to whatever you want for yourself. Those are

also ductless. However heating and cooling guy I called about those

gave me a 'huge' quote on that of $5k. Contractor said that was

ridiculous quote so I imagine one can do alot better. This system

is called a 'slim mini' and I expect the quote on it to be less than

$2. The contractor is suggesting the one from Mitsuibishi called Mr

Slim. My neighbors said they are very happy with it. I gave a link

to it in post. I don't know if you saw it. I don't know

maintenance would be. I haven't inquired yet. I'm still waiting on

a bid for job. I would imagine you could send an inquiry to

Mitsuibishi regarding maintenance requirements or you may be able to

get a copy of maintenance manual that would come with it to read

over. I just mentioned it since ductless would not be dragging any

problem that is in the house into new area, so may be good for

building 'safe room' for sleeping or spending alot of time while

repairing any unsafe areas to older area of house for those people

who would like to stay where they are, assuming they aren't living

in a moldy 'area', neighborhood, it could be helpful.

Here is link to Mr Slim:

www.mrslim.com

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>* Do you know what kind of maintenance is required for these to

prevent the distibution of mold spores? In particualar, how easy,

and necessary, is it to clean the indoor and outdoor portions?

Thanks.

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