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Mini Split Heat Pumps: Not Significantly More Than You Reasonably Need To Know

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I'm curious what your house looks like that one head in the living room heats the whole place reasonably evenly. One of the best advantages of mini split systems is generally that it's easy to achieve balance by placing multiple heads or units in a building, so you don't overheat one area just to get heat to another, or you can leave marginal areas of the house less heated than occupied ones. Though that might just be a reflection of my town being relatively rural, with large weird houses being the norm.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			 
				
					

						
							



	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Maybe "house" oversells my trad hovelcube a little. It's much smaller than the American average, but then so are many castles. There are a lot of "reasonably sized houses" in the pacific northwest for some reason, and it's of typical construction for there.


If you have a ton of doors you can't leave open, adding a second unit or a multi-split might be the best option, but the airflow is high enough to push heat up the stairs and keep my 2nd floor within a degree of the 1st.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			 
				
					

						
							



	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Hey, when we're talking heating, my buddy just bought a 3,000sqft home with a weird multi split level first floor. He's spending $600/month on oil heat already and it's only November. My ranch with a heat pump and a woodstove has me feeling bad even talking to him. Small house small costs. I don't even want to think about what my parents pay in heat.


Better a small home you can keep nice than a big house than goes to shit. I see that too often around me.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			 
				
					

						
					

				
			
		

	



						
					

				
			
		

	



						
					

				
			
		

	




	

	

	

	

	

	
	

	
	

	
 















	






			
			

		

		
			
				


	

		
	


	


		
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