Refurbishment of air conditioners is one of the most difficult problems for most new homeowners。
In previous years, the central air conditioner had been a “high-level designer” for the home. The renovation company, the home-dresser group admires it, the ceiling is hidden, the house is soft and clean, and the normal hanger is crushed. There are a number of common just-in-home needs, even over-budget, for bites and fittings, only to improve the quality of the household。
In 2026, however, there was a complete reversal of the home-based market winds. The latest retail data on household appliances show a steady decline in domestic centralized air conditioning, with more and more common households voluntarily abandoning the central air conditioner and opting instead for a windpipe with a hanger or full-body breaker。
I know a man who's been in the power industry for 10 years, for a real reason: the big floor, the villa, still fit into the central air conditioner, but usually just three rooms, small house sizes, and eight or nine of them will regret it。
Rather than the deterioration of the central air-conditioning product, the loss of the marketing filters has led ordinary households to see its price, high layers, electricity consumption, maintenance of the four main realistic panels and a complete return to rational consumption。
In advance and objective: cac has not been eliminated from the market, but is no longer suitable for ordinary households with immediate needs, and high-end large households remain the preferred option。
One: the hidden formation is too high! It's more than machine cost. The total price of the renovation is just over
The central reason for many owners to step on the pit is that only the price of the air-conditioning mainframe ignores a whole set of hidden costs。
For example, in the main room, 120 m2 and two rooms, the demand model is as follows:
The full brand + the living room cabinet landed only 12,000 to 15,000, with full value for money。
General domestic production, with four central air conditioners, appears to have cost 30,000 for the mainframe, plus labour costs for support materials such as copper pipes, temperature-conserving materials, wind vents, piercing, high-altitude operations, etc., directly add thousands of costs。
The most likely to be overlooked is the cost of retrofitting the ceiling. Central air conditioners need to hide the interior and the pipes, and the whole house must be stacked and hanged, and the carpentry, greasy, emulsive paint completes must come down and represent a significant expense. The whole set is 30,000 to 40,000, and the high-end type is 450,000。
Many owners only discovered that air conditioners alone exceeded the budget of $230,000 in the medium term, completely exceeding expectations。
More critically, central air conditioning is part of the hard-load pre-burial project, which requires the simultaneous construction of the hydroelectric field. Refurbishment is largely unaffordable, installed with minimal flexibility and, once installed, unable to change at a later stage。
Ii. Power saving is the worst-case scenario
Businesses' most common marketing techniques: central air conditioning is more power-efficient and cost-effective over the long term。
The insider is telling the truth: power saving is a prerequisite and most families simply cannot meet the conditions。
The energy-saving advantage of the central air conditioner only applies to multiple rooms running simultaneously. For example, at home, in the living room and in the bedroom, all air conditioning is open, at which point central air conditioning is more energy-efficient than the breaker。
However, the true state of affairs of ordinary families is fixed:
The house was empty during the day and only one or two bedroom air conditioners were available at night. The central air-conditioning output is fixed, even if there is only one room to open, and it is required to maintain a basic operation, with a much higher consumption of electricity than is normally used in single rooms。
A large number of household feedbacks with central air conditioners, the two seasons of the summer and winter, which cost 200 or 300 more per month than a hanger, accumulate over a long period of time and represent a significant expense, the so-called power savings advantage, and a total lack of support for households in need。
Three, high-pressure, maintenance troubles. Yes
At present, there is a new demand for commercial housing, mostly 2. 7-2. 8 metres high。
The central air conditioner is fitted with plumbing and a cape skull. Following the completion of the installation, only 2. 4 to 2. 5 metres of height are left in the archeological, bedroom and local layers, and space is extremely depressed, limiting the main renovation designs, such as orphan lights and a very short wind。
Many sales claim to have been able to use the beams for a local sling, but the actual household-type beam distribution is irregular, and most rooms cannot be circumvented perfectly and can only be air-conditioned at the expense of layers。
In addition to poor residential experience, later maintenance is even more problematic。
Ordinaryly mounted, filters can be self-dismantled and cleaned, and minor failure maintenance is cheap and quick。
The central air conditioners are all hidden inside the ceiling, windways, evaporation units are asymmetrical and cannot be cleaned up by individuals. Professionals are required for each in-depth maintenance at a single cost of hundreds to thousands of dollars, with fixed annual expenses。
The deadliest shortboard: a multi-trailer-type house-to-house with an outside machine. All air conditioners throughout the house are directly paralysed in the event of external malfunctions, leaks of water and fluorine. Some of the malfunctions involved the removal of the slings, which were time-consuming, labour-intensive and expensive, while the breaker unit was damaged without any prejudice to the use of the other rooms。
After several years of residence, a number of owners regret the water seepages, accoutrements and heavy maintenance。
Iv. The rise of mainstream alternatives
Most of the households now in need of air conditioning are abandoning the whole-house central air conditioner, opting for a more cost-effective compromise solution and successfully avoiding all shortboards。
1. Living room windpipe + bedroom hanger (just needed for best solution)
The wind pipe is an embedded air conditioner with no distinction between the appearance and the central air conditioner, hidden from the ceiling, and uniform in colour。
Core strengths are clear:
Independent exteriors run on a single charge, without the need to open the entire house, save power; only the living room has to be hoisted in part at the expense of the bedroom; only half of the cost of air conditioning is built at the central level; maintenance is simple and a failure does not affect the entire house。
The average household size of 90 per cent is appropriate, taking into account colour, value and practicality。
2. Full set of hangers + cabinets
Families with limited budget, low-level, old-age renovations, and condensed houses。
The most secure and zero-pumping option is to open on demand without waste, with low prices, easy installation, zero ceilings and low-cost maintenance。
In the case of villas, large floors, floors above 2. 9 metres, households with a large resident population and multiple rooms with air conditioning, central air conditioning remains the best option, and there is no substitute for comfort and utilization of the outer space。
V. Discovering the four major marketing faults, no pits
Error one: central air conditioning = high end renovation
The quality of the home is determined by the overall design mix, not by air conditioning. It makes no sense for the blind to put pressure on the lower floors and the whole house to push down the renovations。
Mistake ii: long-term savings on central air conditioning
The use of single rooms is higher, and only when multiple rooms are opened at the same time, there is an energy-saving advantage, matching large families with large households and not suitable for ordinary small families。
Error three: embedded air conditioners need not be maintained
The hidden installation of ash, water accumulation, and a high probability of impurities require regular professional cleaning, and maintenance costs are much higher than those of the normal branch machines。
Wrong four: windpipe and central air conditioning are the same product
They look like each other, and they have a very different rationale. Windpipes are operated independently, with low failure rates and controlled energy consumption; central air conditioners are concentrated and more restricted as more toweds are shared。
Six, you're on the right side of the table
Fit for all-house central air conditioners: large floors, villas, high floors, adequate budget, permanent family residence, multiple rooms running simultaneously, and new rooms with insufficient outside space。
Suitable for windpipes + bedrooms: 100-140m2 just needed a household, looking for a face value, wanting a sex ratio, not wanting high maintenance, not trying to lower the entire floor。
It is suitable for a complete set of breakers: limited budget, low and low floors, old room renovation, fit-out, pursuit of practical economy, zero maintenance pressure。
Summary
The central air conditioner is gradually out of normal households, not out of production, but out of complete retrofitting。
Once people had paid for their faces and faces, they now saw the real slabs of high prices, high levels of depletion, low electricity consumption and trouble with maintenance. The essence of the renovation is never the most expensive, but the most suitable for the family, the habits, the budget。
The ultimate answer to the problem of domestic appliances serving life is that they are simple, practical, cost-effective, and self-saving. Disappear marketing and rational choice to avoid retrofitting。
Interactive topic: are you going to choose the central air conditioner or the windpipe? Is there anyone around here who'd regret putting up a central air conditioner? Welcome to the comment section for a real experience
A nice little tip
The selection of air conditioners should not be based solely on proposals for equipment, but must be based on a combination of high-level, household-type, daily-use habits, the overall cost of maintenance at a later stage, rational choice, rejection of winding and avoidance of all hidden pits。
