My spouse and I were enthusiastic to buy and transport into a historical home.
We just enjoyed all the original features such as hardwood floors, ornate banisters on the stairway and solid wood doors. The house includes large windows, ten-foot ceilings and tiffany light fixtures. There is an enormous wrap-around porch across the front of the porch and a balcony that’s accessible through French doors in the master dining room. The biggest setback was the lack of a central heating and cooling system. When both of us first purchased the home, both of us got by with electric baseboard furnaces and window cooling units. We discovered that handling the severe weather in our area is impossible with portable units. The heating and cooling equipment detracted from the decor and cost us quite a bit to operate. It wasn’t long before both of us were uneasy with freezing in the Winter and dripping with sweat during the Summer weeks… My spouse and I were expecting a large remodeling project in order to install conventional ductwork. We figured the plaster walls and ceilings would need to come down, creating a gigantic mess, large expense and a certainly time-consuming process. However, the Heating and A/C supplier told us about high velocity heating and cooling that is designed recognizably to retrofit into older homes; Very narrow diameter, stretchy ducts are able to be snaked into the walls and worked around pipes, studs and electrical wires separate from causing destruction. Vents that are only six-inches in diameter can be installed just about anywhere and come in a variety of styles and colors. The actual heating/cooling equipment is located in the attic