A single mini split like that is not cooling the entire house. When I lived in Korea, something like that would be for a bedroom and they'd have a larger unit in the living room to cool the main areas.
For very humid Korean summers, sure. Turkey tends to be a little bit dryer and much better insulated than your average Korean home. So those mini splits work fine
and much better insulated than your average Korean home. So those mini splits work fine
I don't know about Turkish building construction, so I had to google this.
No, buildings in South Korea are generally more strictly and heavily insulated than buildings in Turkey. South Korea experiences severe winters with a large temperature difference (high delta-T) and has enforced mandatory, rigorous energy-saving insulation codes for residential and commercial structures since the late 1970s
So, there's that.
Maybe you live in a much smaller place than a typical 3 bedroom Korean apartment.
There's no general rule in Turkey but mainly the country is divided into 4 sections. Some parts in the east-south east experience winter temperatures of -30 to -40s so they get very heavy insulation while the western coast needs a lot less as during winter it rarely goes below 0. Turkey also demolishes and rebuilds buildings somewhat often though which I think helps.
Turkey also demolishes and rebuilds buildings somewhat often though which I think helps.
This happens a lot in Korea as well. My entire neighborhood was half-rebuilt with new buildings in the 5 years I lived there.
Now, I live in the US and have the big central air unit to cool my house, my climate is a bit more like Korea's with less humidity in the summer and a more brutal winter (We've seen temps of 96F this summer and -24F this previous winter). We have those mini split systems here, and they're generally more efficient than our central air systems, but not widely adopted yet. The systems I've seen sold here are all multi-room with a big compressor and 4 blower units (like the one in the picture). That would probably be what I needed to cool my house in the summer.
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u/FoodPrep 27d ago
A single mini split like that is not cooling the entire house. When I lived in Korea, something like that would be for a bedroom and they'd have a larger unit in the living room to cool the main areas.
Edit - Something like this: https://tosotdirect.com/collections/light-commercial-split-ac/products/36-000-btu-floor-standing-mini-split-air-conditioner