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From Birmingham:
They installed a Mitsubishi split system in the ed wing in November, 2011. It’s a 3 ton unit with 3 indoor (2 hyperheat) units, each on programmable thermostats. The hyperheat units are more efficient at heating, less with AC. They will extract heat from air as cold as 0 degrees. This cost $14,175. We had to run the electric. The electrician ran into problems with our ancient electric and corrected some flaws. This ran us another $1000.
The original infrared heat in the ceiling had always been uncomfortable and unknowingly was not functioning, until someone discovered this in the fall of 2010. No wonder it was cold in there! So, for the winter of 2011, we used space heaters when someone was using the building. There was and still is electric heaters in the bathrooms, the lobby and the hall, which are used when needed.
We now have Brewer service these units and an older Goodman heat pump in the octagonal schoolhouse.
Other bids on the system were from (note that Brewer’s bid without the programmable thermostats was $12,300 for comparison):
Mauger $14,000 for a Sanyo 3 ton unit and 5 indoor units. Sanyo gets terrible reviews.
Mattson $11,810 for a Mitsubishi 3 ton and 4 indoor units. He refused to come out and look at it and has given us bad advice on how to run the schoolhouse heat pump, which he installed.
Battavio $22,980 for 84,000 BTU (vs 36,000 for everyone else) Why would he want to put in an oversized unit?
Hentkowski $15,180 for the same Mitsubishi Brewer installed. Plus he didn’t know about the newer hyperheat indoor units Brewer installed or about the programmable thermostats.
Worley & Obetz $13,584 for an LG unit. 33,000 BTU with 3 indoor units. After reviewing LG, parts seemed more difficult to get and they didn’t install Mitsubishi because they didn’t have the training and certification from Mitsubishi.
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