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How to Install a Central Air Conditioner
For anyone who is looking for an alternative to using those bulky, heavy and unsightly window air conditioning units, you have the ability to end your frustration by installing central air conditioning in your home. And the good news is that almost any house can be retrofitted with central air. Let's take a closer look at how to install a central air conditioner.
While it is true that almost any home can be retrofitted for a central air conditioning system, there are easier homes to work on than others.
Homes which are already fitted with a forced air heating system are the easiest to work on. This is because they already have ductwork, which is a sheet metal duct system running through the ceilings, walls and floors of your home. Its job is to circulate the air out of the furnace, then to the individual rooms in your home, and then back to the furnace area.
Any publication about how to install a central air conditioner will tell you that central air conditioning systems are composed of a number of various parts and each part may be installed in different areas throughout the home. Condensing units, which compress and cool the coolant, are installed outside. Then there are a set of tubes which run from the condenser, which is outside, to the evaporator coil carrying coolant with them. Evaporator coils use that coolant to minimize the humidity in the air that is circulating around them. In turn, this reduces the air temperature. (These units are usually placed in the attic of your home). Evaporator coils are located in housings that are called air handlers. These are large fans with equipped with filters that circulate air. First, it is circulated through the coil, and then throughout your entire home, blowing cool air into the ductwork of each individual room, while also pulling the warm air out of each room and back through the coil. Anyone who knows how to install a central air conditioner can provide you with more information.
When you have homes with more than one story, you will need to bring a separate cool air supply to the lower floor. You can achieve this by running ductwork down from the attic and then through the second floor by utilizing small amounts of hallway or bedroom closet space. The location of the ductwork is determined by where the joists are located in the floor and ceiling. More often than not, you will lose less than a 16x16space inside your closets. And when it is almost impossible to have ductwork running from the attic all the way down to the first floor rooms, you may need to install a second air handler unit in your basement. Ask a professional who knows how to install a central air conditioner for more information. Then, the ductwork is simply run along the ceiling of the basement and up into the first floor rooms. Finally, there are ductless cooling systems now that are a lot different than traditional cooling systems. They still have the same outside condenser set up, but their air handler and evaporator coil are now combined to form a 7 inch deep by 11 inch high by 26 inch wide evaporator unit. These units are then mounted onto the walls of whatever rooms they are cooling. The condenser is connected to them by coolant tubing that is heavily insulated. And every evaporator has its own thermostat, allowing homeowners to choose what temperature is best for them.
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