A 1993, 2100 sq ft home with a vaulted living room ceiling (can't close it off). 3Bed, 2Ba. Our 2010 Trane 4TWX6036E1000AA was professionally sized and installed by Trane contractor. Works OK......but far away bedroom is usually cold. A space heater helps.....but to keep DW happy.....can a mini-split be installed in BR ? Probably some serious electrical upgrade is necessary. Not sure. No contractors over yet, just noodling this out. Any comments will be appreciated. Sorry about "splition" Can't edit to correct.:Angry:

When our 30-year old natural gas furnace died a week before Thanksgiving and we were expecting a house full of guests, I looked up on Consumer Reports for heat pumps. The two that stood out were American Standard and Trane. On the American Standard website, they recommended one contractor in my area and after a brief phone call, they promptly sent out a representative. My wife and I have owned a small piece of commercial real estate for almost 30 years and we have 11 HVAC units on the roof so I have some knowledge. The representative from the contractor crawled under the house (where the old FAU was installed) and wrote me up a proposal right then and there. He said that we would need all new duct work under the house and he explained why. I signed the contract on the spot for slightly over $22,000. They had the system running before our guests arrived but admitted that they would have to come back to finish up. Then they started offering excuses why they couldn't come back and they finally said that the access to some of the duct work was too limited and all they could do was to offer me a refund on the duct work that wasn't installed. I agree with them that the access isn't great but I've been in the crawl space myself running speaker wires and if I can do it, it shouldn't be too hard for someone much younger than me (almost everyone is younger than me). Now, some parts of the house are even colder than they were with the old FAU. What would you do?