Oak Ridge North, TX
(281) 367-8135

Service 05

For the room central air was never sized to reach

A converted garage, a bonus room over the garage, an addition, a workshop. A mini split cools one room properly instead of asking a trunk duct that was never run there to do the job.

Two boxes and a small hole in the wall

Air Woodlands specializes in the installation of energy-efficient mini split systems, perfect for precise climate control in individual rooms or additions. Our expert team ensures a clean, professional setup with minimal disruption to your space. A mini split is genuinely simple in concept: an outdoor condenser sits against the house, an indoor head mounts on a wall or ceiling in the room being cooled, and the two are connected by a small line set that passes through one modest penetration in the wall. There is no ductwork to run, which is exactly why it fits a room the original trunk line never reached.

A clean install looks like this

The line-set penetration is sealed, not just drilled through and left. The indoor head is mounted level, at a height and position that actually distributes air across the room rather than blasting one wall. The outdoor unit sits on a proper pad or bracket, not propped against the siding. And the whole job is sized to the room it is cooling, not to whatever unit happened to be on the van, since an oversized mini split short-cycles and an undersized one never quite catches up on a hot afternoon.

Air Woodlands is a RUUD ProPartner and holds Texas HVAC contractor licence TACLB# 89203E. Call (281) 367-8135 to talk through the room you are trying to fix.

A Mitsubishi mini split head mounted above a red tool chest in a finished garage

Where these go

The rooms the main system was never asked to cover

  • 01

    Converted garages. The room in gmaps5, above, is exactly this case: a garage turned into usable living or workshop space, with a mini split head doing the whole job instead of trying to tie into a system sized for the house.

  • 02

    Bonus rooms over the garage. Often the single hottest room in the house, since it sits directly under the roof deck and furthest from the main trunk line.

  • 03

    Additions. A room added after the original system was sized rarely gets a fair share of airflow from ductwork that was never designed to include it.

  • 04

    Workshops and sunrooms. Spaces that were built for occasional use and now get used often enough that the temperature actually matters.

  • 05

    Home offices. A spare bedroom or a corner of the house that has become a full-time work space and needs its own comfort control separate from the rest of the home.

Related

Whichever room you are trying to fix, the phone is answered the same way

A mini split visit is also a good time to ask about air quality for the same room, or to put the new unit on a maintenance plan from the start.