hey everybody my name is sam and i'm angela and welcome to our channel welcome back to the next
video in our full playlist of videos where we take you through the complete installation of our
diy multi-zone mini split in our mobile home today we are going to be installing the inside units
alrighty so we are inside our house now as you can clearly see and long time viewers
probably know exactly what room or area of our home we're in just by the color of that wall
nice pill yellow lemon chiffonade i think it was called fancy pants yellows however you call it
let me just grenade please is that a drink or i don't know what is it it's like a type of fabric
well we have lemon fabric colored walls so we are in the very center of the house which means that
this is where we're going to need the biggest unit because it's going to have to go for the
dining room the living room and the kitchen so we decided to go with the 18 000 btu which is
twice as much as we're doing for the bedrooms at 9000 btus apiece what perfect no critiques here
so this is a lot bigger unit than um the practice one we put up in our bedroom you don't want to
tell them that we practice before we actually show them what we did that's the perks of a
multi-zone we learned on the first one and now we will show you on a second and we'll look awesome
hopefully because this one's bigger it's gonna be harder to pick up and we're really hoping it fits
in between these two windows it's gonna be up near the ceiling but still we have the two windows here
we're hoping it fits in between way back whenever we did our kitchen and dining room renovation i
had a little glimpse into the future and i knew we would do a mini split someday and that's why i
actually never trimmed out the windows for those of you who are wondering saying oh my gosh there's
no trim on those windows i totally knew why and i just was waiting to make sure it fit
template template that's a stud right there 16 inch so line that up with the cardboard
good uh-huh that's these then we go this way
we should be good here yeah because you can see it right here okay yeah just thinks we can't center
it in the room but i mean we can't drill through a stud no so we have deliberated and found out that
we cannot center the unit on this wall because of the way that our studs are spaced on 16 inch
on center if we center it with this bracket it's going to make the three and a half inch hole we
have to cut for the line sets go right through a stud so no phooey mr cool why'd you do that to us
why would you put the center of the bracket and then 16 inches over you got to drill hole for
a stud so whatever it is what it is this is a total retrofit job anyway so angela has made
the executive decision to mount it more to the left that way we can hit this part of the bracket
with the stud and that is where the majority of the weight is on this unit it's kind of
lopsided or heavier on one side so we're going to hold this in place hook a couple little holes
through and then hold the metal bracket up and then drill and anchor it to the wall
remember this we've taken off the metal bracket off the back of the air handler unit and even
though we use the cardboard template up there on the wall to drill small little pilot holes
we're going to hold this in place make sure it's level off the metal bracket and then we're
going to attach it to the wall and everything with wood screws and if we need to we'll put
some anchors in there but we've got it lined up where it should be sufficiently supported on the
studs
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with our metal bracket installed and with like a thousand screws in it to hold up
i don't know stronger than a rock of gibraltar here next thing to do is actually drill
a three and a half inch diameter hole through the wall through the insulation and through
the exterior of your home this is by far the most scariest part of the installation
we've marked out our spot on the template so all of our hopes and dreams lie on the template now
it's time to drill it and you want to drill not perfectly level but if anything a little bit of a
downward slope so that your condensate drain lines from your air handler will flow and drain properly
you don't want to have any kind of moisture pulling or building up in here so let's go
uh step one is the easiest because this is paneling in our dining room here now we get
to have the fun of cutting through the insulation and then cutting through the metal aluminum siding
you pushed it aside on the other one
this is also where you find a giant wasp nest in the wall or i don't know
the snake who knows it's like the creepy fair games or whatever what's in the box
oh it's gonna be tricky let's get that drill bit start pilot hole
you want to go outside and film it sure
okay with everything drilled next thing to do is install the wall thimble this comes not in the
air handler unit box but in your line set box the box that has all your giant hoses and everything
so that's where this guy lives you install the tube from the inside
towards the outside and then once it goes through your wall you trim everything to fit
outside but you guys will see that then too the thimble comes with a flat part cut on the round
the flat goes towards the bottom that way your air handler sits over top of it with no problems
okie dokie that's airtight titanic got nothing on that with the wall thimble installed the next
thing to do is to bend the lines out of the back of the air handler unit and fish them
through the wall before you fish them through you want to use some of this tape i mean it's kind of
like and it's kind of like duct tape or medical tape combined um and you stretch it and wrap it
around your line sets it's supposed to keep them together so i don't know we'll see i've heard that
some people have problems with this adhering to everything and other people are fine so we'll see
we don't think this uh tape i don't even want to call it tape it's not adhesive we don't
think this is going to do anything we have tried stretching it as if it's like a shrink wrap fit
it doesn't seem to adhere to itself but you know what we'll try it for you guys
and let's just see if something happens or if it's a grand failure
well this is one way to yeah see we're gonna fix this with some duct tape
there you go mr cool i don't know what you're thinking about giving us that stuff but
we did it and we fixed it you definitely need two people to do this angela is
feeding the communication wires through which this unit comes with 25 feet worth
and then she's going to guide in the line sets drain tube while i walk this into the wall
and then here
hook this up top and it snaps down like a i think like a car hood but
something that's pretty easy it's definitely not i mean overly complicated
i mean obviously the second one was easier than the first but the first one went without
any major hiccups so that was good it is a really large unit in our dining room
but it is what it is it's better for it to be in the middle in the dining room than in the
living room where it may not reach the kitchen quite as well which would be the farthest away
well the kitchen is also the big heat producer you know anytime you cook or whatever that's where the
heat comes from so that was kind of our thinking there's no heat producers here in the living room
so other than us yeah cool air will at least spill over into the living room
and will work well plus it keeps us from having a large utilitarian style box here in our living
room next thing to do is install the one in our boys bedroom our newly renovated boys bedroom and
a hole in the wall that we just put up yep this is also why we waited and we have not installed
any artwork or things on the wall in that room so a little bit of forward thinking as far as that
the one in the boys room like angel said earlier is a smaller 9000 btu unit so thankfully it's
not like four feet long yeah i feel like that's like the hood of a cadillac i feel like we just
mounted the front end of a car in our dining room anyway it is a smaller unit so it won't
take up as much room but let's go get our stuff in there and destroy that freshly finished wall nice
a brand new wall
drained over the bottom
spoiler alert this has already been totally hooked up it does have air
coming out in it but this allows us to show you a couple of things first
it does come with a remote and it has a little holder that you can hang on the wall or whatever
and it has a little led thing that shows you what temperature it is out set at which is nice
but you can also turn it off because it's pretty bright at night
i'll open up the front here for you
so here are two removable filters so you can change it or clean them out every so often
this also has a usb kind of like a flash drive that plugs in right here
and that allows this to be controlled wirelessly through like your cell phone
just wanted to give you an up close look at the air handler in this video
well the units are pretty easy to put in i would suggest two people especially for
like the larger unit like we have in the center of our house which is the 18 000 btu
um it is pretty wide and pretty heavy and you have to like line it up just right
so it does help it is and it's heavy yeah it's not lightweight but they're not super super heavy
no um definitely a team job i think the biggest i guess the biggest benefit of having you there
is i could focus on not dropping the box while you fed the lines and the condensate hose and
most importantly like the 30 foot wiring through the hole first so that was very beneficial to have
just knowing that when you're there you say good then we can walk it on you're not like holding it
up and pushing yeah yeah if you have to do this by yourself i would advise having maybe a step
ladder or something that is as close as you can get to your finished height sit it on top balance
it with one hand and then feed it through i mean it's doable i could see working out a solution
to do it by myself but if you can get help it's very helpful to have help it's so helpful help
help is helpful help we seem to keep running into spacing issues with these units being
where we wanted them and then stud alignment i don't know if that is just everyone's going to
be in that boat or maybe we were picking the wrong thing on the middle bracket to try and
line up our studs and spacing with but it seemed like everyone we wanted it here but had to move
it down a little bit otherwise we were trying to drill a hole through our wall studs and that
just ain't happening so for the ocd side it's not in the middle of the room in any of them that's
that's totally me and i notice it especially in the dining room but even in this room this
one looks pretty good all right this one passes my approval that's why we're in here videoing
so just i don't know food for thought something to think about you may have better luck than us i
hope you have better luck than us on centering it in your space but be willing to compromise because
when the rubber hits the road you're either going to have ac or not so you'll get over your ocd
pretty quick i guess huh as much as i hate to do this i want to stop the video here because i feel
like we have covered a lot of information there's a lot of stuff to digest and when we go outside to
hook this all together there's going to be even more information and more stuff to digest if
you're here from the future don't worry it's down there in the playlist click it keep on rocking
and rolling have some more fun if you're watching real time sorry it is what it is it is what it is
well guys thanks for coming along as we put our ear handlers in there are so many names to these
things i'm having a really hard time keeping them together you're doing great though that you spoke
leave us a comment below we'd love to read them and otherwise we'll see you guys next time
on the homestead see you bye i couldn't help but i had to speak otherwise it's terrible otherwise
it's like wow sam's just like hmm their mind is taking they can't see in your nose it's okay
cause you got your nose so far up in the hair
i feel so crestfallen
so i say something like i don't know well guys sorry i don't buy
that's pretty large and this is pretty bright
this i'll do that welcome back to the next part of blah blah blah mobile home multi zone
and you say and this video is all about the indoor unit installation wait well
okay somebody stand this way so the windows not fighting no you're fine okay angela and welcome
to our channel welcome back to the next part of our diy mini split installation in our mobile home
and this sydney thunder i can't hush no that's fine go for it leave a comment below we'd love
to read them and otherwise we'll see you guys next time on the homestead see ya bye are you
sure that works i feel bad for totally cutting you out you always do that to me i don't always
usually i'm like no stop you're about to run off a cliff i'm gonna run off two just
yet feel bad because you were saying something really good and i don't know if i can splice it
but can you say all that again i don't know what i said well just my memory does not put your
feelings like back in your head and and talk about your feelings again about the white box on the
wall that is visibly working and on so yes we're filming this after the fact whatever all right
dear the whole thought's in closing again i'll be quiet i promise all i will say is see ya okay