Home Air Conditioning

If you live in a very warm country, or even one that only has hot summers, it is just lovely to be able to sit in your home without baking. In particular at night as being too hot can stop you from getting a decent night’s rest. Likewise, when you are at work. We all know the pleasure of walking into a cool, air conditioned building, like a bank on a hot summer’s day.

Total air conditioning like this used to be the prerogative of office blocks and the very wealthy, but it is becoming more general now. In fact, if you already have ducting all the way through your house to be used in association with a central heating system, a total air conditioning system could cost as little as $4,000.

I know that $4,000 is not an insignificant amount, but if you do not have the ducting already, you can add another $3,000 to $4,000. These figures relate to a typical three or four bedroomed house or apartment.

A total air conditioning package like this will normally be adequate for seven areas in one or two zones, which could be two small bungalows next door to each other or a house and a garage or shed. One good thing about total air conditioning is that the whole house or just the ground floor can be cooled at the same time so that you can walk around the house as you usually would.

This is in direct disparity with split systems which only cool one room – every time you go out of the room, you allow cool air out and warm air in, which makes the air conditioning system work more and costs you more money.

Total air conditioning has other less well-known advantages too. It reduces the humidity in a room or house by drying the air as it is returned to the unit for cooling and sophisticated units have filters with additional functions. The more advanced the system, the more germs, bacteria and other substances (like pollen) the built-in filter will do away with.

Because these filters can get rid of airborne substances they can drastically reduce a person’s affliction from allergies. Good air filtration can help asthma and hay fever sufferers very much, if the filters are kept clean.

In general, a total air conditioning system is divided into two major components – an outdoor condenser and compressor and an indoor evaporator in an air distribution system. The air distribution, or air handling system filters and dries the cooled air, and distributes it, via ductwork, to multiple rooms. Total air conditioning is usually much quieter than split air conditioners, because the noise of the latter’s compressor is so much closer to where the cool air is needed.

It is far better to take the ducting into consideration at the construction stage of a new house as part of its heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system, but it can be added later. A good HVAC system should be designed to supply adequate cooling, heating, and ventilation, taking into consideration such factors as the dimensions of the building, the efficiency of its insulation and the regional climate.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on many subjects, but is currently involved with central air conditioning systems. If you are interested in Home Air Conditioning Systems, please click through to our site.