Ways Ducted Air Conditioning Can Benefit Households With Young Children

Just how does a ducted air conditioning system differ from a split system?

Your typical split air conditioning system consists of wall-mounted cooling units located in individual rooms. These single units excel at cooling the room in which they are located. However, when it comes to cooling an entire house, you need multiple units, preferably one for each inhabited room.

On the other hand, ducted air conditioning is a centralized cooling system that distributes cool air to every corner of a house via ducts located in the ceiling space. With this system, you can cool every room in your house at the same time if you wish.

Adults and older children can adapt to hot and humid conditions if necessary. However, babies struggle to cope in heat and humidity. Because they sweat less, and sweating is your body's way of cooling itself, babies overheat and become dehydrated much faster than adults do. However, it's still important to find the right temperature, as making a room too cool is also harmful to babies.

With a ducted air conditioning system, you have the ability to program the cooling of your home to suit your baby's needs. For instance, you can program your air conditioner to cool a specific room like your baby's nursery at a set time and at a set temperature. You can also program a ducted system to turn on or off or change the temperature later.

As a result, once you become accustomed to a ducted air conditioning system, you can trust it to do its job to your set parameters without your intervention.

In a household with one or more young children, good quality sleep is important to everyone. Moreover, as a parent, ensuring your children sleep well means that you have more time to finish off remaining chores before you yourself get some sleep. Ducted air conditioning can help you in this regard.

Unlike a split system, which is often noisy because of its placement on nearby walls, a ducted air conditioning system is quiet. Your children—and a tired you—won't be kept awake by the groaning and grumbling of an air conditioner on the wall near your bed. This means more sleep for your children and for you.

One of the major downsides to split system air conditioners is that the units take up valuable wall space. To a young child, wall space is more valuable than you might imagine. For instance, the décor of your child's room is often a reflection of your child's personality. You'll paint the walls their favourite colour, put posters of their idols up and hang their artwork up for all to admire.

But most importantly, you can use that wall space to build your child's self-esteem. Some research has shown that children who grow up in a home that has family photos that include them grow up to be more confident. In essence, they feel more valued as they grow up. If you invest in a ducted air conditioning system, you can keep your kids cool and build their self-esteem.