An enormous share of the housing across Brooklyn, Queens and the older Nassau villages has no ductwork and no realistic way to add it. Brownstones and rowhouses, pre-war walk-ups, older colonials, converted attics, rear additions and sunrooms — running new duct through any of those means opening walls and ceilings and living in the mess. Ductless mini-splits solve that, and they are one of the systems we install most.
A ductless system puts an indoor head in the room that needs conditioning, connected by a small line set to an outdoor unit. Each head can be controlled independently, which suits two-family conversions, home offices and the one bedroom that has never been comfortable.
Why choose Burgess Mechanical
- Complete job pricing upfront. Heads, outdoor unit, line sets, electrical and line-hide, quoted as one number.
- Placement done thoughtfully. Where the head goes and how the line set is concealed determines whether the finished job looks deliberate or improvised.
- Heating as well as cooling. A ductless system is a heat pump. For a lot of homes here it is the most practical way to add real heat to a space that never had it.
- Single-zone and multi-zone. From one head in an attic bedroom to multi-zone systems across a whole building.
- All work is guaranteed.
Our ductless installation process
- Free estimate. Which rooms, how they are used, where an outdoor unit can go, and how the line sets can be routed.
- Size and lay out the system. Head capacity per room and the outdoor unit to match, along with the electrical requirement.
- Quote the complete job upfront.
- Install cleanly. Small wall penetrations, properly supported line sets, line-hide where the run is visible, and the outdoor unit set on a stable base with real clearance.
- Commission in heating and cooling.
Where ductless makes the most sense locally
In Brooklyn rowhouses and pre-war Queens buildings, ductless is frequently the only way to add cooling at all, and the craft is in the routing — line sets through occupied floors, condensers on roofs or in rear yards, and heads placed so they actually throw air into the room rather than at a wall. Landmarked blocks restrict what can be mounted where visible from the street, and the same is true in the Roslyn historic district, where genuinely historic houses often have no duct capacity whatsoever and no appetite for gutting plaster.
Across the Nassau hamlets and villages, the common case is different: a house with working central air and one space it never reached. A finished attic in Merrick, a rear addition in Baldwin, a converted garage in Oceanside. Adding a single head is almost always cheaper and better than upsizing the whole system to force air somewhere the ducts do not go.
On the water, the outdoor unit deserves particular thought. In Long Beach, Atlantic Beach and the Freeport canals, salt exposure and flood elevation both influence where the condenser should sit and what coil protection is worth specifying.
Serving NYC and Long Island
Family owned and operated, based in Jamaica, Queens, and serving Brooklyn and Queens plus Valley Stream, Hewlett, Atlantic Beach, Long Beach, Oceanside, Freeport, Merrick, Lynbrook, Baldwin, Manhasset and Roslyn.
Call (718) 578-2902 for a free quote.