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Installing a mini-split AC in a Brooklyn apartment

Last year, 2024, we replaced four PTACs with a mini-split AC. I’ve been asked about it often enough (by neighbors, coworkers, friends) that I decided to write up the experience. Hopefully it&…

So geothermal heat pumps were impractical, and the only real option is to go with a regular old mini-split with one large outdoor unit in the back and four terminals inside, with lines (pipes?) The $53k guy had told us that we should really go for the “designer” indoor unit (“you don’t want those other ones, they’re round”) so we asked about it and Ice Age said that they would provide us with those at no extra cost. I once pointed out that some drainage pipes for condensation didn’t run strictly downward the entire time, and the workers fixed that pretty quickly.

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