Hello, I am having a sunroom additon put on to my house and need some advice about heating/cooling options. The sunroom is on a cement slab and thus duct-work from my existing heating/cooling would be too costly.

The room is approximately 300 sq feet. I live in Virginia - hot in summer, cold in winter but not freezing.

Options that I know of - let me know if there are other options.

1. Heating/Cooling unit that will go in one of the exterior walls. I've looked into GE/Carrier brands (12,000BTU). These units are air-conditioners with heat pumps. The cost is approximately $1000-1200.

2. Electric baseboard heat (already have 220V electricity) and then placing an air conditioner in the exterior wall. The cost of this is much cheaper - $100 for heater, $300 for air conditioner.

Questions - will option #2 be significantly less energy efficient? ARe tehre any other negatives to option #2? Are there any other options?

Thanks

Cary

 

For just the one room here Look into a Ductless split system. This comes as a heat pump. With the heat pump you do get like 3 time more heat for your dollar then you do with the base board heat.


ED

 

Ed

Thanks for the reply. So, is the ductless system you are talking about something like a GE heating cooling system with a heat pump (looks like hotel systems).

Or is there another system other than the 2 I talked about.

This is the GE system I"m talking about .....

http://www.ajmadison.com/cgi-bin/ajm...Z35H12D5B.html

Let me know what you think. Thanks

Cary

 

They are like a split system one part on the wall like and the other part is outside on the ground. Dont make as much noise.

Try www.quietside.com

www.hvac-webdirect.com/ductless




Ed