About a week ago, I installed a Senville mini-split (from Amazon) in our house here in the hills. This is a small house, under 700 feet, and isn’t particularly well insulated. It is temporary until we build our retirement home. We just sold/closed our old house.
The unit is highly rated on Amazon and it is very user install friendly. It is 19 seer and the energy sticker shows it to be very energy efficient. Supposed to heat down to 5* and it has been in the 20s several nights since. Zero issues, just works.
I am completely blown away! It is almost silent yet heats and cools amazingly well. What is this wizardry!
It has a remote and a few different modes but I simply set it on auto and to the temp I want and let it switch from heat to cool as it needs to during 24 hrs.
All I needed was a vacuum pump and a set of gauges, it comes pre-charged with refrigerant. I did it in about 4 hours but now that I have done one I could do it much faster.
I bought the line cover kit for outside and I mounted the compressor on a hanging bracket I built under my porch.
All for about the price of a nice window unit
Mini-splits are the future, I plan to put them in our new house.
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