What Is a Ducted Air Conditioner?
Ducted air conditioners are common in the workplace, shopping centres and other large areas, but they are also increasingly common for the home. They involve a central location where the air is treated, then sent by fans through a system of ducts and into each room. Ducted air conditioners are great for keeping large areas at a uniform temperature.
Which Is Easier to Install?
While both of these systems operate under essentially the same principals, installation is very different. Ducted air conditioning requires ducting throughout the whole house, vents installed in each room, as well as the central unit installed outside. Because of the extensive work, it is often easier to design air conditioning for houses and businesses with ducting, rather than retrofit it.
Split systems tend to be easier to install because the internal units are connected with piping, rather than ducting. Your home will still have to be modified with holes made for the hpiping, but this is less significant than ductwork. Each room will have an evaporator unit mounted on the wall, instead of the vents that ducted units have.
When you include equipment and installation costs, ducted systems tend to be more expensive upfront, especially for smaller applications. As the building gets bigger, these costs reverse, and a ducted system will become cheaper than installing a split system in each area.