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HVAC for a Slab-on-Grade Home – GreenBuildingAdvisor
What is the best heating and cooling system for a single-story house without a basement or crawlspace?
By Chuck Bickford |
There’s nothing better than heat in the winter and air conditioning in the summer, right? But the HVAC mechanical equipment and its ductwork need space, and in a small home space can be hard to find. Member “Emel” is trying to get ahead of this problem. He has a new one-story, 1400-sq.-ft. house in the works, which he describes in this Q&A thread. There is a main section and a bonus space. Because the location has a high-water table, the house will be slab on grade.
Three options
Because of the slab-on-grade construction Emel is wrangling with where to put the mechanical equipment and the best type of system to use. He writes that the original plan was to have one minisplit serving the main living area, with ceiling fans in each room, but he’s worried that the bedrooms would be left out of the loop, so to speak. (The bonus space will have its own minisplit.) His contractor gave him three options:
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