Ducted Heat Pumps in Palmerston North

A ducted heat pump hides in your roof and pushes warm or cool air through vents in every room. For Palmerston North's cold damp winters, it heats the whole house evenly instead of one hot lounge and cold bedrooms. Best fitted to well-sealed homes with roof space.

How a ducted system heats the whole house

Instead of a box on the wall in one room, the indoor unit sits out of sight in your roof cavity. Insulated ducts run from it to a discreet vent in each room, so the warm air arrives everywhere at once. You get one controller by the door and, in winter, no more shutting the lounge off from the rest of the house.

It cools in summer too, so it does the same job as regular air conditioning but through the ceiling rather than a wall unit. If you're still weighing your options, it's worth comparing the different types of heat pump before you commit, because ducted isn't the right answer for every home.

Which Palmerston North homes suit ducted

Ducted works best when the house holds its heat. The better-sealed new builds going up in Kelvin Grove, Aokautere and Whakarongo are ideal, and so are larger renovated homes where a single high-wall unit was never going to reach the far bedrooms. You need roof space for the unit and duct runs, which most newer places have.

If your home is older, draughtier or short on ceiling room, a ducted system can be a stretch. In those cases we'll often point you toward multi split heat pumps instead, where one outdoor unit feeds several indoor heads. We fit Daikin ducted systems among others, and we'll match the gear to the house rather than the other way round.

Zoning so you're not paying to heat empty rooms

Zoned ducted heating splits the house into groups of rooms you can run separately. Warm the bedrooms overnight and shut the living areas off, then flip it around during the day. It keeps running costs sensible, which matters through a long Manawatū winter when the heating is on for months.

How many zones you need depends on your layout and how you actually live. We sort that out when we measure up, so the system matches your routine instead of running the whole house flat out.

Running ducts through your roof and subfloor

The install is more involved than a wall unit. We plan the duct routes through the roof space, drop vents into each ceiling, and place the outdoor unit somewhere quiet and out of the way. On single-storey homes across the newer subdivisions the roof runs are usually straightforward; older or split-level places take more thought.

It pays to get the sizing right first. Have a look at our heat pump sizing calculator for a rough idea, then read up on how the heat pump installation actually goes so there are no surprises on the day.

Have a look at our heat pump installation cost for more.