My starter home ended up being my dream house.
I moved to South Dakota and landed in Sioux Falls.
At first I didn’t like the area and then I fell in love with it. The same happened with my house. I had a small house that worked but I really just liked the land. I started adding onto the place to make it the size of my dreams. I got a home gym, a pool, and an office. Since I had to add essentially two new rooms, I needed to think about my HVAC equipment. Do I attach to the current central HVAC or start fresh? I made the choice to do a ductless mini split with two indoor air handlers. It was such a good idea. The office is used five days a week for maybe three hours a day. Doing this means that I don’t even have to provide heating and cooling the whole house. I have a mini split aht just works for those three hours a day. I even bought a smart thermostat to be on a timed program. It is ready for me to start and to finish. The home gym is the same way. It programs to cool during the summer at 9 am until 10 am. During the winter I have heating on from 12-1. That is it. The rest of the time those two rooms get no HVAC. I save quite a bit of money doing that. The mini splits aren’t invasive and they go seamless into the decor. I am glad that I had a good SD HVAC business steer me in the right direction for my new construction project.