We have a huge house and are going to add a mini split heating/cooling unit to an upstairs bedroom so that the room has its own temperature controls. I'll be installing it.
The bedroom is framed in an attic area. On 2 walls the other side of the walls is unheated attic space. The front of the house is brick so nothing I can do there. The floor of the bedroom is about even with the soffit on the outside of the house.
I'm trying to figure out how to run the line set to the outside compressor. If I go through one wall into the attic the line would run across the attic and I would have to drill a hole in the soffit and then come down the outside of the house in a covered channel which I don't think looks great. Also, I don't yet know what the length of the run would be but its go to be at least 60 feet I would think.
If I could go a longer run, I might be able to go into the attic in the garage and then down the inside wall of the garage and then out through the wall to the compressor. This would also eliminate going through a soffit. I don't really care so much about the lines going down the back wall of the garage (in a covered tray) since I already have shelving there that would hide it.
Have any of you had a really nasty situation like this where you had to come up with something clever for running the lines? Do you know of a brand that supports the longer line sets?
The bedroom is framed in an attic area. On 2 walls the other side of the walls is unheated attic space. The front of the house is brick so nothing I can do there. The floor of the bedroom is about even with the soffit on the outside of the house.
I'm trying to figure out how to run the line set to the outside compressor. If I go through one wall into the attic the line would run across the attic and I would have to drill a hole in the soffit and then come down the outside of the house in a covered channel which I don't think looks great. Also, I don't yet know what the length of the run would be but its go to be at least 60 feet I would think.
If I could go a longer run, I might be able to go into the attic in the garage and then down the inside wall of the garage and then out through the wall to the compressor. This would also eliminate going through a soffit. I don't really care so much about the lines going down the back wall of the garage (in a covered tray) since I already have shelving there that would hide it.
Have any of you had a really nasty situation like this where you had to come up with something clever for running the lines? Do you know of a brand that supports the longer line sets?
