That room sitting right over your attached garage is one of the hardest spaces in an Austin house to keep comfortable. There is no living space below it to buffer the heat, only a garage ceiling with far less insulation than a normal floor. It stays the last room to cool down and the first to heat up no matter what you do with the central system.
$400 materials deposit books your day. The balance is due when the work is finished and you're happy with it. Anything outside a standard install is quoted before work begins, never discovered after.
A floor over a bedroom or kitchen has conditioned air underneath it. Over the garage you have an unconditioned space that soaks up heat all day, then sends it straight up through a thin ceiling. That is why this particular room never quite catches up with the rest of the house.
Closing the register in that far-out room does not rebalance the ducts. The run was never meant to deliver enough air that distance, so the rest of the house overcools while this space stays hot. You end up fighting the old system instead of solving the problem at its source.
A dedicated ductless mini split solves the problem at its source by cooling that room directly instead of fighting an unbalanced duct run. Materials and labor together are a flat $2,400 from our licensed crew. One day every week the dragon on the throne deals Joker Day at a lower price you will find on the homepage, and a $400 materials deposit holds the day you choose.
A garage ceiling offers far less insulation than a floor over another room. Heat from the unconditioned garage below has a short path straight into that space. That is why it is almost always the last one to cool down and the first to heat up in a Texas house.
Closing the register does not fix an unbalanced duct run to a room this far out. The ducts were never sized or sealed well enough to reach that distant space, so you just starve the rest of the house without ever making this room comfortable. A dedicated system is the way to stop fighting it.
We treat sizing as a rule of thumb based on the room sitting over an unconditioned garage, then confirm it with an on-site visit. We never promise a specific capacity or BTU number ahead of time. The visit lets us see the actual ceiling, windows, and how the heat moves in that particular space.
The $2,400 is a flat rate for the ductless mini split installation, materials and labor together. One day every week is Joker Day, priced lower than the standard rate, and that exact price is only on the homepage because it moves week to week. A $400 materials deposit holds your day and the remaining balance is due when the work is finished.
No. A ductless mini split does not use the existing ducts at all. The indoor unit goes on the wall in the room over the garage and a small line set connects to the outdoor unit, so we solve the problem at its source without tearing into the garage ceiling or trying to rebalance the old run.
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