Mini Split in a Mobile Home: EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW

[@crinkle2649]

You might not be all those other kinds of "ologest", but you are an entertainingologest 😀

[@crinkle2649]

Angela you forgot about the point that window units get mildew on the window. And can also make your window start rotting.

[@heididecker707]

I got a quote for a minisplit install in my 1000sqft home for $16,000. Talk about sticker shock! I'm going to try installing the Mr. Cool myself. I hope I don't fail.

[@95turbogirl1980]

How did it go?.im considering the same

[@prs6315]

Sam and Angela have you used another brand other than Mr. Cool? I am going to install a split system in a 12x18 room with a concrete floor. This room will be for multiple uses….crafting, canning, dehydrating, possibly a laser (I am almost 65 and a busy grandmother so I’m not certain I will really have the time or energy to tackle everything a laser business involves). So I want more than enough cooling and heating for this room.

[@sam-and-angela]

Your question is very timely. We just had a relatively unknown company (Turbro) offer to send us one and we'll be installing it into my workshop whenever it arrives. That will be covered on this channel. Hopefully in the next month!

[@kayceemc204]

I’m beginning to put in two mini splits in my mobile home this weekend! Can’t wait, thanks for the informative video!

[@XvictorX0]

How did it go

[@michellequintero9759]

How it went ? We have window units but my husband want to fix the main ac but someone told us that mini splits are better!

[@deannaoverstreet4146]

Ok, I am excited to see it happening! Love watching you!

[@ToddandAmandaWilliams-bm8mi]

We have the split unit in our mobile home and for the ones that own mobile home knows they get real hot in summer it helps a lot keeping the mobile home cool on really hot days also warm during winter we don't use the furnace at all but have it as a backup if something happens to the split unit

[@lauriedutcher5676]

We love ours. Nice and quiet!

[@lynnobrien9429]

That's a really good idea window units going to be a thing of the past in years to come I'm sure. Great info thank you.

[@Hollybank5]

You guys are fearless at DIY !!! ✅

[@carolyncarlson3825]

Happy for you...its a great product. I love mine

[@jodyrayvictor]

I'm glad you made this video with the answers to questions I have because I'm considering Mr cool myself. Thank you.

[@brendasas8440]

I just had a mini split installed in my studio apartment. It's wonderful !

[@darleneclark6098]

Yay I've been anxious ly awaiting this project. And since I've got nothing to do but lay in bed and recover I'm so happy 🥰

[@hnhardin1217]

I hope you get better soon!! Whatever it is 😊

[@darleneclark6098]

@@hnhardin1217 your so sweet. Thank you. I've been recovering from kidney stones surgery 😩

[@TeeVeeZed123]

Reverse cycle split system air conditioners have been a part of life in Australian homes for quite a long time, coupled with solar panels they are an affordable cooling solution in hot, hot, hot, Aussie summers.

[@yardog64]

I always wondered about these. Been watching a channel called Life Uncontained. They built their own home using 2 containers and they also chose mini-splits.

[@Aliceinjonesville]

Oh a series!!! We have 4 mini splits in our 125 yr old home!! Can’t wait for this!!! You guys are cool- ologists fer sure🙌🏼🥰

[@karlab9557]

I will be looking forward to watching the installation videos!

[@gaylkirkpatrick7128]

You both are amazing! Your channel is my favorite!

[@hnhardin1217]

I had no idea that was even an option. Sounds perfect for y'all!

[@lindacruikshank2656]

We had a heat pump for our 3 story house and absolutely loved it.

[@lyndakempland4559]

It is nice of you to do this. I've been without a working furnace for 4 years now so I wanted to know how the heating part goes.

[@lindaschoolcraft8536]

You guys are very knowledgeable. If I have a problem, I’m call Sam and Angela……lol God’s blessings.

[@nellomichi6416]

reasonable price for central air/heat for your home. we got a new trane, for $4400 installed to handle 1300 sq feet, but our attic duct work was already there.and in your case it might be more since new ducts are needed, more money.

[@number1pappy]

Yeah ,we just had a 3.5 ton unit installed with new ductwork in Our 1500 sq foot home and it only cost us $4600. They really got ripped off with their estimates from their ac contactors. We looked into mini splits but the reality is you get cold spots and un-uniformed cooling ,not to mention the noise factor. Granted mini splits are quieter than window units but you still hear them. As someone who doesn't even like the noise from a small fan there just wasn't anyway a mini split would work for me.

[@number1pappy]

@@lifequest7453 I have a goodman horizontal ac unit. It's basically a all in one unit consisting of the compressor and air handler in one unit that sits outside. We don't hear a peep from it when it's running. The only way you can tell it's on is if you put your hand in front of a vent you can feel the air,that's it! Now if you had an air handler inside your house ,especially in a closet kind of situation than of course your going to hear it run! This is the situation we did have. Now after having our horizontal unit installed we have total quiet. We also have air returns and air vents in every room. This prevents any cold or hot spots you might get without air returns. The air temp is equal in all areas of our house something you just can't get with a mini split. With a mini split you basically just have a quieter window unit. When the air is returned and blown right in top of each and only having one vent per room your going to have areas of your room that are colder and warmer in spotty areas.

[@fava7753]

Excellent job guys , keep up the excellent work and content . .

[@TheCookster64]

I was quoted $9k and I was shocked. I'll get it done for $1200.

[@maryderks8749]

Thank you!!! Great information from wonderful people. : )

[@amberschamel3598]

Thank you so much for the info, I am glad y'all put this together for us.👍😀

[@rubberdc]

Good evening Sam and Angela, nice to see you again . Today it has been raining and tonight it still is raining . get rid of that clammy feeling with all the heat.

[@angelacross2216]

Looking forward to this. New furnace/ac in our future.

[@glx720]

Yep been waiting for this one .

[@haydenuk02]

Thanks for sharing this with us take care

[@tinab6032]

Interesting. Thanks for sharing so far.

[@cw881r]

If you order through the home depot store 99% of the time they can get it cheaper than online (I worked at HD for over 15 years) the mr cool company is located in Hickory KY and are very easy to deal with

[@bobr2959]

Are you saying that Home Depot has a cheaper price and its best to buy it from them?

[@nancyh9030]

I can't speak to minisplits but with conventional air conditioning you want to size it appropriately because in the humid south if it cools too quickly it won't have time to remove enough humidity out of the air..

[@lindapeterson7166]

Hi Sam & Angela,this sounds like a great alternative to heating & cooling a home!The big units are so expensive!Thank you for this info! 👏👍☺️

[@sam-and-angela]

Our pleasure!

[@TheWoodHaven]

This is going to be good info for me. I have some future projects where this will come in handy.

[@sharonmcmillen2811]

Really really good info!! Conveyed perfectly too👍👍👌

[@rubberdc]

I really enjoyed tonights vid . I love how you use your acre as your backdrop. I watched with intrigue as a fly landed on Sam's collar ( @9.51) and every time you turned your head your beard covered it , I was certain that you would feel this and swipe it off ......nope.

[@kathyusa-iowa5137]

Great job explaining a concept that is likely alien to many (me included)❗👏 💯

[@haroldborland5445]

Enjoy watching you guys . Pretty inspiring!!

[@D1schram]

Great info.

[@danielheartsill4269]

After I retired from my regular job I went to work part time for Home Depot.In many cases during the eight years I worked for them I saw Home Depot bend over backward to take care of any problems. They are a great company to deal with and will help in every way they can. One thing I saw I couldn't believe they did was a man came in that had bought a BBQ grill a hundred miles from our store. The HD people loaded it in his pickup and tied it down. On the way to the Dallas area it blew out of his truck. He stopped by our store, told us the problem. Our store replaced the grill for him. most companies would have told him to go back to where he bought it.

[@KristenYoga_]

Thank you so much for this incredible video!

[@BigDreamsTinyBudget]

Oh awesome! The series I have been waiting for a d perfect timing cuz my project mobile was just delivered this week :D

[@rafaelfelix1072]

you guys are fantastic.

[@Agus.randoms]

Thanks

[@CHARLESBW453]

I have taken my trailer house which is skirted all the way around move my mini split outside unit very close to the trailer. Then I cut a hole in the siding underneath the trailer and pulls the cooler in to the mini split out from underneath the trailer and helps reduce the cost.

[@1973chrisg8]

Bigger A/C units are not necessarily better. They will cool the air down too fast and not run long enough to remove humidity from the air. The house will feel cool but humidity will be higher and it will feel sticky like a hot humid day outside sticky. Even though it may be 67 degrees inside.

[@indigoswan8463]

Thank you for this great video. Recently critters broke through my duct work and my hvac took its last breath. I thought about having to run new vents and how miserable that would be. I’m also not crazy about breathing in dirty duct work air. (Gross!) I sure am glad I came across you two mini split-ologist! Lol! Going to try this new method.wish me luck !

[@uncletim2454]

very helpful

[@djterry1218]

Well now Sam you are a heating and air-conditioning guy!👍🏼👏🏼👊🏼

[@deanbarr5740]

Thanks so much, couldn't have come atta better tim. I'm worried our A/C unit is about to fail and our gas furnace is about 11 years old. This might an excellent solution for us and save us a ton too. Thanks Sam and Angela.

[@sam-and-angela]

Glad to help!! Good luck with your system!

[@karencary3312]

Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! Can't wait.

[@JWimpy]

I am a licensed HVAC technician. There is far more to selecting the size of your needed unit than getting the biggest you can. Bigger is NOT better. If the unit is sized over tonnage you will run into major cooling issues. Too small and it will never catch up to the heat loss and run forever. The unit needs to be sized by the heat load of the square footage of your home. Too much tonnage and you will turn your home into a sweaty swamp.

[@Phantom-darkness]

But they are using mini splits so they are using 12k and 9k’s. You can oversize the main unit like to a 36 or 42. I believe you need 70% to run the unit minimum so with the 30k they have a 36 or 42 they’d be inside the window and have room to add a zone later if needed. They are running a 12k and that’s about 500 square feet and 2 9’s about 250 square each so 1000 sq ft and the average single wide is about 950-1100 They are spot on with calculations. Yes you are correct that oversized traditional systems will not run long enough to remove moisture required for cooling but mini splits are a different animal. With the 70% rule with most units he’s actually not wrong in saying go up bigger now as say you add a room or garage later you have the capacity still. These units ramp up and down much more effectively than old ones.

[@angiejones968]

I had no idea! Thanks for the tip😊

[@clincoln280]

Thank You!​@@Phantom-darkness

[@lechatbotte.]

I have a heat pump/AC unit. Not sure if it’s age, but I’m not running it because of cost. I have all the registers are in the floor and all the ducts run through the basement. Would love to tear it all out hee hee. It’s a small house about 850 sq ft so I don’t use much. Heat with oil filled furnaces, in summer it’s situated so the smallest parts of the house get the most heat. I use a combo of blinds and light blocking curtains and the house stays pleasant. At night I open up the windows and doors and use a fan situated in the back storm door to pull in cool air. It works but this might be a great replacement for those really hot or really cold days.

[@thesomewhathandyman9400]

Nice. I will probably get 3 separate units since one will be in the back bedroom, one in the middle for the living room then one way up front for my office (3rd bed). I'm thinking the length of the line sets would make it a pain to install for a single central pump on a 66 long single wide. It will be nice to see how you laid yours out since I think you have a similar length home.

[@RichardT123456789]

How is the Mr Cool system working for you today ? Considering the Heat pump split system. Thanks

[@johnmathis141]

I want to do the same but one question I have do it cool the other rooms in the house with one unit

[@roberto.peterson9917]

I personally use long pilot bit to go through wall and cut from inside and outside this make sure you not splinter or otherwise cause cutting rips tears or blowouts depending on what outside surface maybe

[@ZiggyTheHamster]

Something to add re: oversizing. Unlike a regular American AC unit, mini-splits have variable frequency compressors. A regular American-style AC is either on or off and it greatly reduces the life of such a system if it is constantly underloaded or overloaded. Mini-splits only run the compressor as hard as necessary to maintain the set temperature.

[@kuehnel16]

How does it work running a hose through the outside wall everywhere you want the air or heat to be

[@glimmermomma4373]

Your a good Oligist anything!!

[@larryfeeks6620]

Y'all are my favorite Minisplitologists!

[@TheGrumpyChef]

This sounds like a great alternative to ac units in summer and pellet stove and/or kerosene in winter for Maryland which is what I will have to be doing this winter and my partner she has been doing for a number of years. I am awaiting the sale of my frame house to share our mobile together as we have been renovating it as time and money permit. Thank you!

[@JimDockrellWatertone]

What about a Maxi-Split?..lol. Good to see you guys truckin' along with the home improvements.

[@sam-and-angela]

Hehehe

[@thomasmorse6692]

This is going to be cool after it's installed. At least that's the idea. I thought about one for my house but my place is only 648 square feet. It's going to be interesting to see how this all turns out.

[@clincoln280]

What about getting things on eBay?

[@dennylee8584]

Hi Sam and Angela, Does the Mrcool system come with emergency heat for times the outside temp drops below freezing? I would need that option. Thanks, God Bless!

[@marywest2896]

sam we are not all computer savvy as you!! especially when it comes to electric!! you under estimate yourself!!!!

[@auntmaryspals7978]

I wish they had these 30 years ago. It would have saved us a lot of money.

[@quietkate]

So how do you heat/cool/dehumidify the bathrooms if the units are in the bedrooms & center of the dwelling?

[@sam-and-angela]

We don't need units in every room of the house. They all equilibrate with time with no problems.

[@bethgregory9388]

Are you guys going to get solar panels

[@sam-and-angela]

We actually have a stack of large panels we bought on a whim over a year ago. They are used and were super cheap. We would like to hook them up, but the other parts for solar are very expensive. Who knows though... we still have them! :)

[@cornpop7805]

Especially in AC mode, bigger is not always better, in fact a unit that is too big, may self destruct in a very short period of time, maybe even days! The refrigeration condensensor (outside unit) compresses vaporized refrigerant into high pressure liquid. That liquid then goes to the indoor unit(s) and travels through the evaporator coil, where it absorbs heat and returns to a vapor state. It then returns to the condenser unit, to repeat the process. However, if the system is too big and the evaporator coil doesn't absorb enough heat to return the refrigerant to a vapor state, it will still be a liquid, as it enters the compressor. YOU CANNOT COMPRESS A LIQUID! In the trade, this is called "slugging the compressor" and it's one of the most damaging thing you can do to a compressor. When the system is sized too big, even if the refrigerant does return to the compressor as a vapor, the room(s) may cool too quickly and "short cycle the compressor" that's where the compressor turns on for only a short period, only to quickly turn off again. Resulting in many more on/off cycles than recommended for the system. However, many split units have variable speed pumps, which allow them to operate at a range of BTUs, not just the maximum rated BTUs. So, some of them are more tolerant to the conditions that would make a traditional central air unit, short cycle. Mr Cool and Heatandcold.com have good phone support and are good about helping non-trades people size their units appropriately. Obviosly, the square footage matters, as does the area of southern (and to a lesser degree, west facing windows). The climate zone where your home is, makes a huge difference, as does the level of sealing and insulation the home has in its favor. Never size a system without having a specialist take these into consideration. Regarding windows, having large areas of south and or west windows may change the calculation, but moderate window areas are not a big concern.

[@almachapman5409]

Interesting 🤓

[@lucindamacy3918]

I have both read and been told that if the ambient outdoor temperature drops below 19 degrees, a mini-split is unable to produce warm air. Have you ever heard anything like that?

[@sam-and-angela]

Our units are MR COOL. They list the lowest outdoor temp where it’s still able to heat as 5 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s for the heat pump portion. Below that temp each of our indoor units have electric strip heaters built into them that will operate if needed.

[@cdcartin2001]

I prefer the mini-splits. Rented a house last year that had only mini-splits installed. Moved into a house with a traditional HVAC system this year and I really miss the efficiency and control of the splits.

[@c0rnd0g_19]

Wow. So sorry your local HVAC company tried to rip you off so badly. That price is WAY out of line with the norm. Glad you found an alternative!!!

[@c0rnd0g_19]

@@lifequest7453 I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but I had a 3.5 ton Trane Heat Pump/Air Handler (in the attic) installed last year for $5k. Even if Sam and Angela needed new ductwork, lets say $2k (being generous) for that, then the quote they got was double what it should have been. The company was trying to rip them off. There's no other conclusion. The problem is that company. Maybe they didn't want to do the work, who knows, but it's still a rip-off and not in-line with national pricing.

[@judibohn2295]

? So did yaw remove the old system n scrap it or tossed it?

[@sam-and-angela]

Yes, it was tossed out a month or two ago.

[@pterrydactyl]

Heat pumps are used in RVs. The concern with them is that the heat pumps don’t work at or below 40F. Is there a concern with the units you bought regarding heating?

[@CantankerousDave]

Newer heat pumps can work down into the single digits.

[@sam-and-angela]

No concerns with heating where we live. We have mild winters, but these units also work in very cold conditions as well has having electric heaters inside the indoor units too.

[@pterrydactyl]

I went to the Mr. Cool website where I read that they work down to 5F. As an ever I was aware of the temp Rv heat pumps work down to(40F). Was curious at what point temperature affected the performance of these heat pumps. Thanks for the info.

[@rubberdc]

As you , Sam are explaining how this "mini split " thing works ,I am looking at Angela ( and although I am sure she knows how this works ) by watching her expressions......im not so sure .lol..

[@carmenmariacortesmarin2664]

Looking forward to the playlist. Yes, you guys are all-ologist, but for the sake of legal matters, it's very good you always say you are not. DIY perfection! Any of us wish we could be your no-ologist you claim to be. If I was like you guys, as the saying goes, I would be in hog heaven!!!

[@janicedennis1958]

…we call them dollies out west as well…

[@CantankerousDave]

That new insulation would have knocked that heating bill down quite a bit by itself, but I bet that new mini-split system is going to pay for itself really quickly.

[@chickenjohnny3308]

Biger is better? No! If you install a system that is too big it will not remove the humidity from the home, you will be cool but not comfortable. It is better to be a bit small rather than too big.

[@nancyparker3732]

Are you a HVAC certified worker?

[@chickenjohnny3308]

@@nancyparker3732 Yes I have worked in the industry as a tech and a disigner for fourty years.

[@jackiegardner7483]

💁🏼‍♀️🌻

[@grandperesdream3183]

HVAC is an area where larger is not necessarily better. You can sometimes run into short-cycling problems. You don't want that. The right size is the right size.

[@WhispersFromTheDark]

Hmmm ...and all this time I thought a 'mini split' was either when you tried to do the splits but could only go down halfway...or dwarfs/small people doing the splits.... :-)

[@roberto.peterson9917]

Sam you are wrong on sizing bigger not always bette technically slight lower btu for the room Lower btu give ac time to lower humidity and higher btu would satisfy temp too quickly and leave you feeling muggy as air would still be holding moisture . On average bedroom 6000 btu and living / cooking 12000

[@kiddfamilyfarmllc9962]

Yea, just like most all other trades, cost have gone too far.

[@seoulbrooks]

Good luck with getting Home Depot to cover any warranty or force the manufacturer to stand by a warranty. I would advise purchasing from an Asian manufacturer. They have been using Mini-splits for years. Mr. Cool is also a good choice. Have fun!

[@danbailey96]

Probably any mini split you get is Asian

[@skrtskit1521]

💖🐱‍👤

[@daviddarnell8898]

Bad advice. An oversized unit will not dehumidify because the unit will cool the house so fast it will stop running while the house is still too humid.

[@gailshugars9047]

Way cheaper now less than 500

[@HoneyHollowHomestead]

At that price tag, it's not coming to my house anytime soon.

[@stevebennett1563]

I want see customers fix these peices of shit

[@BahamianLily]

1:20 - mini splits are also less invasive. One hole.

[@BahamianLily]

People should also understand the higher the SEER, the more energy efficient the unit should be.