We are going to be putting in a home gym and it’s going to need heating and cooling.
The problem is that we don’t want to have to pay the money to run ductwork for it.
I guess this tends to be a problem for a lot of people when they are doing additions or renovations at their homes because when I talked to our HVAC contractor about it, he wasn’t surprised in the least. He said that a lot of people are actually surprised at the high cost involved with running new ductwork when you are doing a renovation in your home. It’s actually more expensive than you might think. Plus, you actually run the risk of connecting your old HVAC system with new ductwork and then the whole thing might not even work correctly. That’s because sometimes your older HVAC system that you use for the rest of your home just might not be powerful enough to take on all of the extra space for your addition or your remodeling project. He told us that a lot of people don’t ever even take that into consideration. At this point, I don’t know if running extra ductwork for the home gym is the way that we should even go. I’m leaning toward another solution that the HVAC contractor suggested which is something called a ductless mini split A/C system. These powerful little HVAC units are able to provide both heating and cooling for smaller spaces without having to run new ductwork at all. That sounds like a win to me.