About two years ago when my great-great Grandmother passed away I was absolutely devastated. My friend and I always had such an amazing relationship and had written each other back and forth from opposite sides of the country when I was growing up. In my much younger years, I always went out and spent my breaks from school with my good great Grandmother in her awesome forest cottage. It was an amazingly attractive loft to stay in, and I had a good time playing pretend in learning books as a child there. I was often find a current areas of the loft to explore, such as the crawl space and the creepy attic. My good great Grandmother must have realized how much I enjoyed that gorgeous house. When she passed away, she left me the entire property. When I got the house, I was so overwhelmed that I swore I would never change a single detail. However, when I absolutely went out to inspect the loft after all these years, I knew that was promised I could not keep. Obviously, the HVAC system wasn’t going to make it. I called out a heating and cooling specialist to inspect to the existing boiler and aged cooling system. He told me that the air handling equipment was fine, but the ductworks themselves were completely destroyed. It would be extremely inefficient to rip out the walls, separate from the existing ductworks, and replacing them with current ones. Instead, I bought many mini split ductless heating and cooling systems and had them installed throughout the house. Now, I can live in this gorgeous loft separate from worrying about the inefficient central heating and cooling, and I even have zoned temperature controls.
