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| midsouth
 |  "converting from split to package"
, posted Tue 4 Mar 16:41  
My 11 yr old Trane XE1100 3.5 ton unit is shot. Compressor has quit because interior coil is leaking freon and Trane guy says replace whole thing. My brother tells me that he converted his split system to a package system and took the coil out of the inside of his house and there was nothing to it. He did it on a singlewide mobile home though and I am wondering if it is that easy on my one level 2000sq.ft home? HELP!
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| midsouth
| "Re(1):converting from split to package" , posted Tue 4 Mar 19:19
I should have explained that my home is also a mobile home but it is a double wide and has skirting also. Does that change things? My brother makes it sound like no big deal to switch over.
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| | yuri
| "Re(2):converting from split to package" , posted Tue 4 Mar 19:30:
Everything is a big deal. It is labor intensive but possible. Make sure the contractor has done this type of work before. I don't see any great advantage in it other than you can get a larger capacity unit with a package unit. Where I live the mobile home furnaces are small and the homes are poorly insulated so they need an extra ton of cooling. Unable to fit a larger coil in these furnaces. If yours works okay now I would just replace it. Listening to friends and relatives is not always the best advice. Good intentions yes, technical abilities, poor. We have some techs from way down South so stay tuned and they may have better advice.
Yuri
[this message was edited by yuri on Tue 4 Mar 19:33] |
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