I live in a 1938 cape cod style house. Similar to a Bungalow. We sleep on the first floor year round. It has single pipe steam heat. Which I love. Gentle heat that takes virtually no electricity to run. I can run my heat on a car battery for 2 days. It has no pumps.dbr wrote: ↑Sat Aug 06, 2022 7:52 amI live in a Bungalow style house built in 1915. It has hot water heat and no duct system. The heat works fabulously well though we have supplemented a couple of end-line spaces such as what was originally a summer sleeping porch* with electric baseboard. It would be a real engineering feat to install whole house cooling in this house. We use one window air conditioner and otherwise exhaust fans strategically located do well enough. We do not expect to live at a 21st century standard of air conditioning.dknightd wrote: ↑Sat Aug 06, 2022 7:44 am
I wonder if your house was designed for forced air heat. Maybe somebody changed a radiator system to a forced air system? I doubt it was designed for cooling in the 50's . . .
I suggest you visit https://forum.heatinghelp.com/
*Summer sleeping porches are cool at night.
As with most bungalows there is main sleeping space on the first floor.
I got sick and tired of moving window AC units around. Too much work, and too noisy. I spent about $10k on a "mini split" system. I bought it mostly to reduce the noise. And work. It has one outdoor unit, and five indoor units. The piping for a split unit is 1/10 of the space required for duct work. I will never break even dollar wise. But I no longer have to move those heavy things around, and I can be comfortable year round. Unless we loose power.