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If you’re remodeling or adding a new living space to your home, what are your HVAC bonus room options? It may be a guest room or a rec room or a hobby room or a home office. In many if not most cases, you’ll have to make a decision about getting adequate heat and air conditioning into that new space. Fortunately, there’s more than one way to adequately and efficiently fill that need for comfort in all seasons.
Here are some suggestions to add HVAC bonus room cooling and heating.
Expand your existing system.
Extending the home’s existing HVAC ductwork into the new HVAC bonus room is doable. However, certain caveats should be taken into consideration first:
Airflow circulation is carefully balanced to ensure all rooms in the house receive sufficient heating and cooling. If a new span of ductwork is extended into a bonus room, air circulation throughout the house may be imbalanced. Additional duct or blower alterations may be necessary.
Depending on the size of the new room, the new additional square footage may potentially require upgrading to a larger central AC or furnace.
Ductless mini splits.
These compact, efficient heat pumps are an excellent match for a new room addition. Here are some reasons why:
As the name implies, ductless mini-splits do not require ductwork. Therefore, the expense and disruption of extending household ducts into the new room is not an issue.
The unit consists of a small, wall-mounted air handler connected to a downsized outdoor unit about the size of a large suitcase.
The conduit connecting the indoor unit to the outdoor unit requires only a small, 3-inch hole in an exterior wall.
Like a full-size heat pump, a mini-split provides both heat in winter and cool comfort in summer.
The mini-split system includes its own dedicated thermostat to ensure comfortable temperatures for that specific room, regardless of temperatures in the rest of the house.
If you're considering HVAC bonus room options, talk to the pros at Air Assurance for expert advice and experienced service.