Air Conditioning Solutions

Air Conditioners

The air conditioner in a central heating and cooling system provides cool air through ductwork inside your home. An air conditioner can change the temperature, humidity or general quality of the air. More specifically, an air conditioner makes your home cooler, by drawing heat energy out of the house and transferring that heat to the outdoors, then replacing the air inside your home with cooler air.

In the AC system, the compressor condenses and circulates the refrigerant through the outdoor unit, changing it from a gas to a liquid. The liquid is then forced through the indoor evaporator coil or cooling compartment. The indoor unit’s fan circulates the inside air to pass across the evaporator fins. The evaporator’s metal fins exchange the thermal energy with the air around it. There, the refrigerant turns from liquid into vapor, removing any heat from the surrounding air. As the heat is removed from the air, the air is cooled and blown back into the house.

Air Handlers

The air handler is an important part of a heating and air conditioning system. Electrically operated, its job is to effectively circulate air throughout your home. Your central heating and cooling system consists of two main parts – an outdoor unit and an indoor unit, or air handler. When matched with a heat pump, it circulates both cool and hot air, depending on the season. Can also be matched with regular air conditioner for cooling and additionally installed electric heating element for heating.

Air handlers usually connect to duct work that distributes the conditioned air through the building.

Heat Pumps

Heat pumps and air conditioners operate in a very similar way. Heat pumps are typically used to pull heat out of the air or ground to heat a home or office building, but they can be reversed to cool a building.

One of the biggest advantages of a heat pump over a standard heating and air conditioning unit is that there’s no need to install separate systems to heat and cool your home. Heat pumps also work extremely efficiently, because they simply transfer heat, rather than burn fuel to create it. This makes them a little more green than a gas-burning furnace. Installation for this type of system typically consists of two parts: an indoor unit called an air handler and an outdoor unit similar to a central air conditioner, but referred to as a heat pump.

When it’s cold outside a heat pump extracts outside heat and transfers it inside. When it’s warm outside, it reverses directions and acts like an air conditioner, removing heat from your home.

Ductless Split Systems

The mini split ductless air conditioning system is an excellent alternative for heating and cooling older homes with radiators or baseboard heaters. The system is small in size and very flexible for zoning because no ductwork is needed. Ductless air conditioning is the perfect solution for sunrooms, room additions, computer data rooms, small offices, garage conversions and more.

Split ductless is a smart way to add air conditioning to a limited number of multiple rooms without having to open up walls to install ductwork—as you would with a central-air system—or install and remove multiple window units each year.

Systems have an exterior condenser and an indoor evaporator unit that houses the cooling coil, a fan, and controls, to which you can add indoor blowers.

Spacepak / Unico Systems

SpacePak and Unico are the most common high-velocity cooling (and heating) solutions for older homes that are not equipped for central air, and new homes featuring hydronic heating systems, including radiant floor heating.

This type of air conditioning is ideal for homes that would benefit from central air conditioning and heating – older homes with little or no attic space; historic properties where architectural highlights must be preserved; homes with baseboard hot water, steam radiators, or electric radiant heat; or new construction with in-floor radiant heat. Distribution of air is by means of flexible, pre-insulated 2-inch mini air ducts (inside diameter) which slide through wall structures and around obstructions. Each mini duct run has special sound attenuation materials that absorb airborne and regenerated noise to provide a quiet air conditioning system.

Small air outlets about the size of a CD are the only visible component of the SpacePak system. Custom plastic or oak outlets that virtually disappear in the home’s wood floors deliver warmed or cooled air without drafts.

Standard SpacePak air conditioning outlets can be installed in the ceiling, walls, or floors and can be painted or wallpapered to match room decor.

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