Не хочется уродовать окна кондиционерами, особенно новые.
Разрушений и сети duct'ов, связанных с central air тоже не хочется.
Речь идет только об охлаждении столетнего дома с полметровыми кирпично-каменными стенами в нью-йоркскую летнюю баню.
что вы об етом думаете?
http://www.comfortmaker.com/
To answer your questions, you are asking about a DUCTLESS A/C system. These work by avoiding the ductwork necessary for central AC - which is too expensive and visually disruptive in older houses - and replacing it with a fairly big outdoor unit hooked up to another, indoor unit. The outdoor unit can be mounted most anywhere, a wall a roof etc., but it ain't small or pretty. There must be a very small opening (2-3 inches wide) to run the coolant inside. Then, there must be an additional opening that lets the interior unit drain condensation away to the outdoors. (The bonus from this is it will reduce the humidity in your house!) The water moves via gravity, so where ever you up the inside unit, you must be able to run a pipe to the outside that will drain.
As far as costs go, Mr. Slim units can be had on the Internet for substantially less than $3-5K. Try something called www.acwholesalers.com -- they have a 22K BTU Unit, the largest you can buy for residential use, for $1.6K. It puts out more cold air than you could ever want. If you buy it via the Internet, you will need someone to install it for you, and you will probably also need an electrician to run the appropriate wiring (you'll need 220V for the big 22K BTU units).
I bought my 22K BTU Mr. Slim via the Internet for something like $1,800 delivered by truck. Installation - which I got from Rumba Air (recommended by others here and also by me!) - cost about $800 and the electrician was another $800 or so. (Electrical could be substantially more depending on the expansion capacity of your fusebox and the existing state of your wiring, but you want it done right. Electrical fire = major drag).
Mine unit is installed in the kitchen which is on the parlor floor of our 4 story garden apt/triplex. I think the interior unit can be as much as 25 feet away from the exterior unit. If I had it to do over again, I would have had the outside unit installed on the roof, since it would probably cool my entire house! They are very quiet, very powerful (my parlor floor can be cooled to 65 degrees in summer in 15 minutes!), and extremely efficient - I never even noticed a change in my power bill after it was installed.
When the electrician came over to bid the job and saw the unit, he looked up, smiled, and gave me his "big thumbs up" signal. I knew I had made the right decision to get one.
