All Forum Posts by: Jessica Seigel

Thanks Robert, In terms of through the wall, I meant an old fashioned Friedrich -- just a regular air conditioner designed to vent out the back. This is a very small studio and the A/C box would sit under the window in a window bay and be unobtrusive. The problem is nowadays they don't seem to make good quailty through the wall for consumer use -- today's Friedrich is not the quality of the 30-year-old one we do have in another existing through the wall. But yes, that is the problem -- ther eis no universal box size for A/Z. The question with minisplit is cost, where to put the compressor, and the issue of having individual compressor for each very small apartment and where they would go. (These are MUCH smaller than anything you can imagine in Louisiana. Manhattann sizes. 

Should I bash two halls in the rear of our six-unit brownstone for through wall A/C or install a mini split system? The price difference of course is huge and these are SMALL apartment studios. We have steam heat and the mini split would be largely for A/C. The problem is individual electric metering.Is it possible to run lines off one compressor  to units in two different apartments and somehow meter them for their individual electric use? Your help much appreciated. Jessica