Rooms without ducts
Ductless mini split installation for the rooms the ducts never reached
Cooling and heat for rooms the ducts never reached, designed by a Comfort Advisor around the room you actually live in.
Chapter 01
The upstairs flex room, the addition and the room that only works with a window unit
A ductless mini split fits where the ducts never reached. Farwest puts the question the way a homeowner would: are you looking to add cooling to a home that doesn't have any ducts, or add supplemental cooling to one room? The usual candidates are an addition, a converted garage, a finished attic or a bedroom that stays hot long after the rest of the house has cooled off.
One customer described an upstairs flex room in a newly bought house as brutal in summer, barely tolerable unless a freestanding A/C was running. Window units and portable A/Cs are the stopgap that sends most people to a mini split in the first place.
White ductless mini split outdoor unit on a wall stand above a concrete pad
The honest answer: sometimes the right fix is a duct, not a split
That same customer, Susanna Y, collected quotes this winter from two reputable companies for a split, and both came in at 16 to 25 thousand dollars. A realtor she met mentioned Farwest. Their quote was prompt and a fraction of the price of the other two. But what decided it, she wrote, was the integrity. The advisor took her aside and said, “look, we could do a mini split but....I think adding a hot air return at less than 10% of the cost will do the trick.”
“And by golly he was right,” she wrote. The room feels almost the same as downstairs. She also noted that Farwest gave her an amazing solution even though it meant losing a 10k plus sale, and that they will now do all her HVAC work across all of her properties. That is the standard a Comfort Advisor is held to here: design for the room you live in, not for the biggest invoice.
So the first visit is a diagnosis, not a sales call. Sometimes the answer is a split on a wall stand or a pad outside, as in the photo above. Sometimes it is a new return or a rebuilt run, which is its own service on the duct modifications page. Either way, Comfort Advisors like Nate design the system around how the house actually moves air.
Chapter 03
Keeping a split working: seasonal cleaning, filters and what the system is for
A split is worth the money when the room has no duct to borrow and no return to fix, and the Comfort Advisor will say so when it is not. If it is the right call, it also asks for a little care: clean filters in the indoor heads and a clear outdoor coil, checked each season.
Think about the job the unit has. A single split can be supplemental cooling for one room, while a design that reaches further is a bigger project with a bigger price. The advisor lays out the options and the cost of each so you can compare them against the duct fix, not just against the window unit.
Ask the office how seasonal maintenance and a Comfort Club plan apply to a ductless system, and about financing if the project is larger than expected. Farwest finances installs as well as repairs, and homeowners are typically approved within 2 business days.
Farwest Climate Control, 112 N 3rd Ave, Yakima. A Washington L&I licensed contractor, rated 4.9 from 552 Google reviews. Call (509) 457-5346, Monday to Friday, 8 to 5.
Hot and cold spots in a ducted house? Start with duct modifications. Replacing a whole system instead? See system replacement, or ask about financing.