A Ductless Air Conditioner - Is it a Good Choice For You?

Ductless air conditioning is a new way of cooling any room in your home without the need for ducts. But is it worth the cost to have the convenience of cool air in the hot summer months?

Well, that is up to you. This article will provide some excellent information so you can make a good choice for your home cooling investment.

For starters, a ductless air conditioner is almost soundless. The engineers that designed these new technology really had to be sure that the noise level was quieter than a library, especially when cooling a very small room. As you know, noise pollution is not a good thing. We hear it all the time, especially if you live in a city. You do not need it in your own home. Can you imagine a noisy air conditioner running loudly while enjoying a quiet candle lit dinner? Yikes!!!

Secondly, they are virtually invisible. Yes - most people, in 2010, have rarely seen a ductless air conditioner. Or they might have seen one but it looked so unlike an air conditioner. Why? Because a they hang on the wall and look more like a decoration than a home cooling unit.

The cost? Considering the alternative, installing duct work throughout your entire house, on every floor branching out to every single room, the cost for a ductless air conditioner is an outstanding value. Not only do you have absolute control of where all the cooling air goes to, it can be a lot cheaper in the long run because of this very control.

Installation is also very easy. There's no major renovations involved. The installation time is a fraction of the time if you consider the time to install duct work throughout your home for a typical central air conditioner.

Now here's the amazing part!

A ductless air conditioner can also double as a home heat pump. This is truly an amazing extra bonus simply because a normal air conditioner cannot cool AND heat a home. And if you would like to know more about what a home heat pump is, here's the scoop:

During the winter, a home heat pump extracts warm air from outside your home and literally pumps it in to your home. Confused about how a heat pump can extract warm air during the winter when it may be freezing outside? Join the crowd. Most people are clueless about how a heat pump can do that.

In a nutshell, here's the answer. Even in 50 below zero temperatures there is still a huge amount of warmth in the air. Hard to believe, yes. But considering that the coldest temperature is minus 273 degrees C (known as absolute freezing) it becomes much easier to understand that our winter temperatures never come close to that level of freezing. There is always an abundance of warm air even in the coldest Canadian climates.

However, these ductless heat pumps will not heat your house at these low temperatures, but they will provide heat to about 0 degrees C.

Conclusion? A ductless air conditioner can be an excellent choice for BOTH home cooling and home heating. Soundless, easy installation, and fit right in to any home decor.