What units did you end up getting?golftdibrad1 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 9:00 am Splits still doing their thing, its not been super hot so its not a real stress test, however the house is so, so, so much more comfortable. Pops is doing me another huge solid by coming over to day to finish up the covers on the exterior line sets.
Speaking of line set covers, I kinda forgot to buy them when i got the units...so i hopped on FB market to see if anyone local had any. Found a guy that is a dealer / installer for this brand. Had him come give me a quote for doing the other 3 head unit on the difficult side of the house. His price installed is right under 5k (the unit alone would cost me 3600 all in), so I'm paying to have that last unit done. Honestly...if id have found him before I might have just paid him to do the whole job minus the electrical. The electric for this unit is already there and will use the existing central units power.
The other thing that gave me a warm fuzzy talking to this installer is the reliability aspect. I've heard that these splits CAN be problematic, only last 5 years or so, etc etc. This dude only sells this brand (sienvile) and has been doing split installs for 5+ years in the area, and he is the warranty for them. In that time he said hes only had a handful of failures, and even the older out of warranty units only a couple callbacks for replacement. He estimates he's done thousands of them at this point and less than 20 failures. So that bodes well for the future and I'm glad I did my due diligence picking a good brand.
That last unit is a royal bitch for a few reasons. The lineset total length might require the unit to get a taste of refrigerant for one, which would have been a service call for me. (NB, the units come recharged for up to x length of line) One run is about 30 ft from grade in the air, not directly over it though, it has the added fun of a 70 degree sloped roof under where the lineset will exit. Oh and grade is not flat eitherRun 2 is either through a window header or down through a wall under the window...where the is both water AND power in close proximity.
Once outside there are 4 bends to make along the wall to get to the unit. Run three is simple enough.
I mean... doing the rest DIY saved probably 5k+ but I'd still have been in well under 20k for new HVAC had I found this gentleman earlier.After he is done I'll work up a total for the brain trust. just adding up major expenses right now I'll probably land at about 11-12k. If I were to try to do the last unit DIY, it would be a real possibility that this could have been done for under 10k
so in summary nomoney fire on the AC,
savings. more
for life activities.
Debating doing a mini split for my son's room and supplemental cooling / heat on the 3rd floor to the small dick air handler that the fucking AC company ripped me off on.
