When purchasing climate control equipment for an apartment, many people think about which option is preferable: in each room there is an apparatus or one powerful air conditioner for two rooms.
What to choose?
Among the proposals there are a lot of air conditioners serving 40 - 50 square meters. This is the area of a small one-bedroom apartment. Moreover, in the apartments of the old layout, the rooms are adjacent, they are separated from each other only by doors. Owners of the pursuit of savings often want to buy one air conditioner in many rooms.
However, store consultants are generally skeptical of such ideas.
Why? Do they just want to rip off more money? Maybe they will offer to put two air conditioners in one room? Not at all.
The price of air conditioners for two rooms will be 30 - 50% higher than for one more powerful one. And also installation, delivery and launch. These are additional costs.
If the apartment is small, then one air conditioner can be enough for a room and for cooling the kitchen! Moreover, the height of the ceilings in houses of the old construction does not reach 3 meters, the main thing is to install the system correctly!
But this is a very superficial look at the question.
The problem is that the room in which the air conditioner is installed will cool slightly more.
And only a small part of the cool will reach the other. Some residents of the apartment are freezing, as if in one room there are two air conditioners. Others may not even notice the effect of his work. This is especially true of apartments in which rooms are delimited by a corridor, even one meter wide. One standard split system categorically cannot cope with cooling.
Such owners can be offered one multi split air conditioner. This air conditioner has 3 rooms and even 5 rooms. 3 indoor units are attached to one outdoor unit. Indoor units can be of different types: for example, cassette for the living room, and wall for the kitchen. It all depends on the design of the premises and the preferences of the owners.
It is more convenient to do wiring when all rooms go to one side.
But even with rooms opposite each other, installation is possible. Freonotrass will have to be pulled through the entire apartment, so it is better to think about installing such an air conditioner before redecorating the apartment.
Expensive but high quality
An even more convenient version of the air conditioner for 3 rooms or more is a channel system. It serves any number of rooms. But it is necessary to conduct ventilation ducts around the apartment. Therefore, it is desirable to have suspended ceilings. Although some owners skillfully mask the channels and even turn them into a design element, for example, a ceiling beam. The price of an air conditioner for two rooms will be slightly higher, but such systems also air the premises.
