Electric Small Heat Pump

What does this system give you over regular mini-splits? The outdoor unit on the Quilt only does two rooms. Best I can tell, then, for our small 1200 sq&#x2F;ft house, we&#x27;d need a minimum of two outdoor units, probably three. And our house is a shoebox, not the 4000 sq&#x2F;ft monstrosities that are common in the area. Or for $5000 from Home Depot, I can get a single outdoor unit that will drive four indoor units.<p>On top of the fact that anyone walking into that room will immediately think &quot;oh, you got a mini-split!&quot; because there&#x27;s still a box hanging on the wall. Again, what am I buying here?<p>And at $6500&#x2F;room, great googly moogly! This is either DOA or I&#x27;m missing a fundamental piece of the value.

&quot;Someone finally made a heat pump that looks good inside your home&quot;<p>The internal air handler unit looks exactly the same as any other manufacturer. It&#x27;s still ugly, and it still sticks out and doesn&#x27;t integrate as nicely as ducted HVAC systems. Wouldn&#x27;t homes just benefit more from replacing their existing furnace+AC systems with a heat pump if it&#x27;s necessary, rather than installing mini splits in each zone and running refrigerant pipes all over the outside of the housing structure.

Slapping a piece of plywood with oak veneer onto the air handler doesn’t make it look any less like an air handler.<p>$6,500 per mini-split installed is quite high, a mini-split requires mounting the air handler and condenser, drilling two holes through an exterior wall, connecting the line sets, and sealing the holes; plus electrical wiring. $3,500-4,000 is what I would expect to pay if the mini split cost around $1,000: 8 hours max each to mechanical and electrical contractors ($150&#x2F;hr) plus material and profit.<p>This company is marketing towards people with more money than sense who will be impressed by “wi-fi” and some oak veneer.

&gt; For a three-bedroom house, say you were looking at installing it in six rooms (each bedroom, a kitchen, living room, and dining room — Quilt doesn’t recommend them in bathrooms) — it could cost close to $40,000.<p>Nobody is going to do this. Not unless they&#x27;re duped into it.

What are those prices?<p>Looking at cheapest units here in Nordics. 695€ install from 899€ unit... Which is suitable for 85 m^2... So I am not exactly sure what sort of rooms need two units...

I hear the criticism, but it doesn&#x27;t seem out of the normal price range for the cost of an installed mini-split heat pump.

Per the Guidelines, &quot;Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don&#x27;t editorialize.&quot;<p><i>Someone finally made a heat pump that looks good inside your home</i>

&gt; The Quilt system uses Wi-Fi (2.4 and 5 GHz) and Bluetooth to communicate between units and the remotes, and each Dial can also control the whole system, just like a thermostat does for a central HVAC system. The Dial has temperature, motion, and proximity detection built-in. You can also use the Quilt app (iOS or Android)<p>And I assume it also phones home to the mothership, which Hoovers your usage stats up for re-monetization?<p>Yeah, that’ll be a “nah, dawg” from me, well before even the astronomical price tag.