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or multi head mini spits I think will become more popular.

I am thinking of a dual head for the main floor, but I'm trying to stay away from anything beyond that because I'm scared of the complexity of 3+ heads and how shitty it would be to replace the whole thing someday.

I don't think I have a way forward for my upstairs because there's 5 small rooms. I either go absolutely nuclear with cost and capacity and have a 9K BTU unit per room, or an 18k in the hallway, which will really only heat the hallway and probably just cause the tstat to not turn on the heat in the rooms lol.

varg yeah new homes are built like shit, but my old house is also built like shit, but the walls are a lot thinner and it's had 80 years of being hacked by whoever was hired to do this work.
I've found around a dozen buried electrical boxes, live wires snipped off in the walls/ceiling, floor joists cut completely through for plumbing, and exterior/load bearing walls without a single intact stud because someone couldn't decide where to put some windows. I could push the wall out like 3" at the middle before, and spliced in I think 6-7 studs floor to ceiling, tying into whatever I could lol.

I think building houses like shit is just NA tradition.

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I have to say, we’re in a fortunate position with technology. I basically made videos of my kid from the moment my wife told me I was going to be a Dad and then ends on her first birthday. Did the same from 1-2 and then again from 2-3. They got pretty long, so now I’m going to make like 5 minute videos (versus 20-30 minutes). They are private and I share them with family. It’s pretty fun, especially now when she gets to watch herself as a baby

Yep, love that and have some similar plans with all of the media I've got now.

You don't want a brand new home. We're in a building boom, new homes are built like shit, inspectors don't have time to look at them properly (and don't care), and you'd move in and go up in your attic and see crappy framing work, the worst builder grade fixtures you've seen in your life poorly installed, crappy tile work, etc etc. I'd much rather put insulation and windows in an old house than pay more for a new one that is built worse.

Oh, trust me, I'm well aware. The viral sensation home inspector is local to me, he may be at a million followers now. I've seen all of his stuff. When we were looking, we considered new homes, but I would want a quality inspector (like Cy) but even still I wasn't loving the idea of having to battle with a builder. Even the 1-3 year old homes in that area, toured those too, and while I'm not an inspector (perhaps a future career option for me... honestly) I could point out things wrong... that likely wouldn't be covered by the builder or would require a lengthy process to get it fixed... maybe. The issue is the state inspectors are clearly slapping on their stickers on homes that they don't actually look at, or perhaps the inspector sends stacks of his pads to the builders in the mail - this is just my very biased takes. There is a TON wrong with construction, and because of our boom here once again, we likely have the worst offenders.

The new house is was built in the late 90's, and that isn't great as far as timing but at least the framing is decent - that I could see. Really, it appears to be (and hopefully is) in rather good shape. I think only 2 owners, which isn't a lot especially for homes here. My first house I purchased was a 70's ranch slump block, it was solid but I left that thing far better than I received it. Our current house is a 1980 (I think) wood construction but pretty solid too - but not perfect, like no footings were poured for the full length patio in '95. So that was fixed by us. A lot of times, like cars it can be the previous owners who can mess up things. Like my previous rant, I'm kinda obsessed with building science so within a realistic budget - I've got plans to really make this next house a home we are happy to be in for a long time, not forever, but something we can be happy and healthy in making memories. It's exciting and daunting all at the same time, the next step is to get our current one cleared out in the coming weeks, freshened up here and there, then sold.

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even brand new homes - which this is not

You don't want a brand new home. We're in a building boom, new homes are built like shit, inspectors don't have time to look at them properly (and don't care), and you'd move in and go up in your attic and see crappy framing work, the worst builder grade fixtures you've seen in your life poorly installed, crappy tile work, etc etc. I'd much rather put insulation and windows in an old house than pay more for a new one that is built worse.

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Simon - Also echoing some of that same stuffs. I'm stay at home dad right now, because of many a reasons but it was all for the better, that's the without going too much into it. Fortunate enough we can do it right now, and while it isn't forever I'm trying to really soak up every moment. I've also tried to take a lot of videos so we can look back on them. Pictures are great, but videos can tap back into that core memory stuff even better. If the work-at-night venture that I took over doesn't pan out, I'll likely refocus and switch up my career into one of my many interests, but we shall see.

I have to say, we’re in a fortunate position with technology. I basically made videos of my kid from the moment my wife told me I was going to be a Dad and then ends on her first birthday. Did the same from 1-2 and then again from 2-3. They got pretty long, so now I’m going to make like 5 minute videos (versus 20-30 minutes). They are private and I share them with family. It’s pretty fun, especially now when she gets to watch herself as a baby

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VRF is kinda confusing. That or multi head mini spits I think will become more popular. Worst case, I want a condenser to be variable so it uses the same inverter tech. Here in AZ the hard kick on of ACs put so much wear on motors and they are why energy spikes cause your bill to go up, but it is only one piece of the puzzle. Insulation like you pointed out is one of the big things people don’t do properly. If the PO’s of our new house did better steps before solar they’d probably not have solar, but it’s in an area where the door to door people did a lot of scammy or unethical things.

I think we have the same mini split haha. Mine is a senville too. Yeah mini splits are seen as too complicated to most hvac installers, it truly is best to diy them and understand that with the money saved, it may require replacement some day. The high end brands can even have parts availability issues like Mitsubishi, the pro is if you do a proper install most of the time mini splits are solid. I’m with you on not wanting heads in every room but when our attics are so ass backwards and the ducting superheats before delivering cold air, it just doesn’t make sense. If I didn’t have the air handler, ducting, furnace (currently gas) and only insulation up there it would make massive energy and cost saving differences. Again, we shall see what we end up with.