Having a sunroom on our retirement house was not high on my priority list.
Getting out in the sunshine on the daily sure was.
Still, my wife had her heart set on having a place with a big sunroom. To me, that seemed a bit redundant. I mean here we are moving to a region where it was all about the sun and the blue sky. Why wouldn’t you just spend the time outside? Plus, what would you do in the sunroom in the summer without air conditioning? well, we found out about all of this very fast our first summer. We moved to our new place in April and by mid-may, the sunroom was simply off limits for me. My wife who loves the heat, still spent time out there until about mid June. Then, she was kind of done with the sunroom as well it was just too hot. So that defeated the purpose of having the sunroom. Why wait all summer to enjoy a sunroom because it was too hot? But then, I noticed that we were avoiding the sunroom in the morning during the winter because it was a bit too chilly. For sure the winter here is super mild but the sunroom is cold in the morning. That’s when we decided to talk with an HVAC professional about some heating and cooling for the sunroom. Initially, I thought they might extend the ductwork. But that’s not how it worked instead we got a ductless heat pump installed and it is just the solution we were looking for when it came to heating and cooling.