It’s solid skiing if we get enough snow

Good luck. At least you can’t say nobody told you!

Depends on the unit: I have a 4-head, 38k btu system installed for $18k (new install). A quote for a single head, 38k btu (replace existing) for $8.5k. Yours still seems about $10k too much.

8 head units makes that number make more sense. We have just two-- one upstairs and one downstairs for 1700 sq ft. It does fine IMO. We supplement with space heaters when needed. I feel like you could get away with fewer head units. 8 seems insane.

Hah, I wish.

I have a single unit on the first floor of my 2200 sqft house. It cools the entire first floor with minimal effort. We still use a window unit upstairs, but will likely install another mini split in the near future. The total cost to buy and have the first one installed was $5800. That is insane.

Good to know... how many head units did they install? Does your house have multiple floors?

They wanted to install 8 head units: 2 in the basement, 4 on the first floor, 2 on the second floor. They said required to mini-splits. I think that's why it's so expensive; one unit is quoted as $18K the other is $20K.

for some fun pricing perspective, I had a 3 head ductless minisplit installed in Cambridge in 2012, for $10k

Come to Plymouth!!!! We're not too blue collar for non-dunkies - look at Keegan's, which is often mobbed! High quality coffee and food and the place is booming. You'd do well here

Yes

But all you would have to do is buy your system and have an HVAC person install it. Even with labor costs and a more expensive system, you’d spend a fraction of that price.

Yea we ended up writing off middleboro being that it was more working class than our target demographic

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Makes sense, I guess the proper footwear is required

Yes way too much, should be half that if not less.

Way to much. My 1800 sq. ft. house was about 16,000. Done this past summer.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but how many zones would you have for your system?

I looked for kicks and found a system for $2289 that has 36k btu as a single zone, and I feel like that would be more than what a 1300 sqft House would need. In what world would it cost an additional 45k in labor to install that??

I don’t need to be rich, I planned to be the staff for a while. I have a few close people that would join in once were established

I'm not OP but I would think that the trail would be icy this time of year. Even in this kind of weather the trails are fairly busy and the packed snow will end up freezing.

Holy shit, $48k? Are they also putting in a brand new roof with solar panels?

You could consider Milford, Nh. About 35 mins to Fitchburg and Manchester. Milford has its own downtown with some great restaurants and bars, a drive in movie theater, athletic club and lots of community activities.

I've lived within 20 minutes of Watatic for most of my life (10 minutes for the last 25 years) and have only hiked up it once, and that was fairly recently.

It does give a great view of North Central Mass.

And they both have AWFUL coffee.

Too many cars.