Ductless units involve more work to install we're gonna talk about that in this this video. I had someone message me a couple weeks ago on our new hvac website. And they're basically saying. Hey.

I've got this heating and air company and we've talked about different options. I thought i wanted to go ductless. I see them online. I see that some of them don't cost that much and i thought maybe that was a route i wanted to go.

But as i got to talking to them more the heating and air company said. They're more work. So we have to charge more to go that route if that's the route you want to go i wanted to do a video on that because i think there is a little bit of confusion with that especially these days as we have all these companies coming out with do it yourself heating and air or we see where you can buy a lot of this stuff in big box stores or on amazon a lot of times. Folks are not comparing tomato tomato.

If that makes sense they're not comparing apples to apples. I think all in all if you're saying well you know it's one indoor unit and one outdoor unit. That's what we a lot of times. We'll call one to one one indoor.

One outdoor with copper line sets running in between electrical and so on in the grand scheme of things a lot of times a one to one does not require that much work. They're not that hard to put in and that's why they are figuring out ways to make it to where homeowners can install them you have no duct work to install you just put the system in and you turn it on so ultimately again if you were saying look. I'm going to compare. Installing a one to one to a full conventional heat pump or furnace type heating and air system with ductwork.

I would say that this option with all the ductwork and everything that's involved would be more labor intensive for the heating and air company to install so that assumption would be correct. But i think in this particular case. I wanted four zones meaning. They wanted four indoor units for ductless indoor units.

And they wanted them all to be on a single outdoor unit. So we call that a zoned mini split system. So i think what the heating and air company was basically saying is look you've already got ductwork. There or even if they were replacing the ductwork.

The holes are already cut you've got ductwork in place. And we're going to just basically be replacing the system and again even if they're replacing the ductwork with it it's just it is what it is it's pretty cookie cutter. There but when you start talking about now you're going to be running line sets for all four zones. You're going to be running the electric and then you've got to get all that to the outdoor unit.

Some way some houses. It's not that big a deal but a lot of houses. It is you've got to physically get the line sets from one end to the up some cases depending on what you're installing you may even have something called a branch box. Which is even more work the point is if you were under the assumption that you were in the market for heating and air system.

And you were going to go ductless or mini splits instead of conventional. I'm not pushing you one way or the other it doesn't matter to me it depends on the customer depends on the house and a lot of times. I'll have that conversation with the homeowners and decide what makes the most sense. If you do subscribe to our guide a lot of times.

I'll tell folks i'm here to help. But i will have to defer to your local expert on that they're telling you one way is better than the other then even though. I'm here to help i'm not going to change their mind. They're telling you that for one reason or another ultimately.

Which way makes more sense it depends on your situation it depends on your house. I think a lot of folks think i've got these indoor units and i'm going to put them with one outdoor. So i'm saving all this money still only have one outdoor unit and they don't realize that a lot of times. When you go from just a single one to one even to a two zone two indoor units to one outdoor.

The outdoor units jump dramatically and pricing themselves. Anyway the point is get some quotes get some opinions you want to find a good contractor. That makes you feel good and then maybe go with what they're recommending all that said i hope that helps thanks for watching hit that subscribe button. We'll see you next time.