Cooling
Central air and ductless
Air conditioning sized by measuring your house, installed in a day for most homes, and checked every spring if you want it to last.
Which one
Central air or ductless?
If your house has a furnace with ducts, central air is usually the simpler answer. If it doesn't, or one room never keeps up, ductless is.
Central air
- An outdoor unit and a coil on top of your furnace.
- Cools the whole house through the ducts you already have.
- Uses the furnace fan and filter, so one filter to change.
- Installed in one day in most homes.
Best for: homes with a forced-air furnace.
Ductless
- An outdoor unit and one or more heads on the wall.
- Each room with a head sets its own temperature.
- No ductwork; a small hole through the wall for the lines.
- One to three days, depending on the number of heads.
Best for: boiler-heated homes, additions, hot upstairs rooms.
Prices
Typical installed ranges
For Winnipeg homes, in CAD, including the outdoor pad or wall bracket, electrical hookup, permit and removal of an old unit. Bars run from $0 to $16,000.
- Central air, 1.5 to 2 tonBungalows and smaller homes, existing ducts$4,900 to $6,600
- Central air, 2.5 to 3.5 tonTwo-storey and larger homes, existing ducts$5,800 to $8,200
- Ductless, single zoneOne head: a bedroom, an addition, a garage suite$4,200 to $5,900
- Ductless, multi-zoneTwo to four heads on one outdoor unit$8,600 to $14,500
AC repairs start with the same $119 diagnostic as heating. A spring tune-up on its own is $159.
Air in the house
Humidifiers and filters
Central humidifiers
Winter air in Winnipeg is dry enough to crack wood floors. A bypass humidifier on the furnace runs $650 to $900 installed; a steam unit for larger homes $1,500 to $2,200.
Filters
We fit a 4-inch media cabinet for $380 so you change the filter once or twice a year instead of every month. Plan members get a filter at each visit.
What we don't do
Commercial rooftop units and geothermal drilling. We'll pass you to people who specialise in both.
