The Bonus Room Your Central AC Gave Up On
Every house in Copperas Cove seems to have one room that never got the memo. The room over the garage, the converted attic space, the back addition somebody framed in years after the original ducts were drawn. The thermostat in the hallway reads 74 and everybody believes it, right up until you open that door in July and walk into a wall of heat.
A ductless mini split fixes that room without touching the rest of the house. One indoor head on the wall, one small outdoor unit, one hole the size of a soda can. The price is posted before we ever look at your house: $2,000 flat for a single zone. No standoffs, no surprise line items at the end.
Why That Room Loses Every Summer
The problem usually is not your air conditioner. It is the distance. A bonus room sits at the far end of a duct run, often with a single undersized register, and the air has already surrendered most of its cool by the time it crawls up there. Add an uninsulated garage underneath, a west-facing window, and Central Texas sun that keeps hammering until eight at night, and one register never had a chance.
Rooms over garages in Copperas Cove have it worse than most. Hot air from the garage rises into the floor, the roof deck above bakes all afternoon, and the room ends up fighting the house instead of joining it. Balancing dampers and a bigger blower rarely solve it, because you are asking the central system to overcool the whole house to satisfy one stubborn corner.
One Zone, One Posted Price, No In-Home Sales Visit
For most bonus rooms, one zone does the job. That is $2,000 flat, and the flat price covers equipment, labor, the line set, standard electrical, refrigerant, testing, and cleanup. It also covers a run to Home Depot for touch-up paint so the wall behind the head and the exterior penetration look finished. No trip fees, no fuel charges, no upcharges added on the last day.
If the bonus room is not the only trouble spot, and it usually is not, two zones are $3,700 and three zones are $5,400. Four or more get quoted individually, because at that point the layout matters and we are not going to make up a number. For comparison, ductless installs in Central Texas commonly run $3,000 to $6,000 per zone on a custom quote from other contractors, most of whom want an in-home visit before they will say anything at all.
The Honest Exceptions, Said Up Front
Three things can move a bonus room job off the flat price, and we say them before you fill anything out. A very long line set, meaning the only sensible outdoor location is far from the room. An electrical panel upgrade the house already needed, which a licensed electrician handles separately from us. And unusually difficult mounting, such as a second-story head with no reasonable access or a wall assembly that fights back.
None of those are discovered halfway through and sprung on you. If your Copperas Cove house has one of them, you hear about it before the work is scheduled, in plain numbers. Installations are performed by licensed contractors, and every unit gets tested and the site cleaned before anyone leaves.
How we compare
| Factor | Old West Minisplits | The usual HVAC quote |
|---|---|---|
| Upfront Cost | $2,000 flat for one zone in the bonus room. Two zones $3,700, three zones $5,400. | Ductless in Central Texas commonly runs $3,000 to $6,000 per zone on a custom quote, and duct extensions get priced case by case. |
| Getting a price | Posted on the page. Fill out the quote form and we confirm the zone count. | Most require an in-home visit before they will name any number. |
| Effect on the rest of the house | The bonus room gets its own thermostat. The rest of the house is untouched. | Rebalancing or extending ducts pulls air away from rooms that were already fine. |
| Winter | A mini split is a heat pump. Same unit heats the room through mild Coryell County winters, no furnace involved. | A duct fix inherits whatever heat the central system already sends, which is the same air that never made it up there in summer. |
Straight answers
Is $2,000 really the whole price for one bonus room?
Yes, for a new single-zone install. Equipment, labor, line set, standard electrical, refrigerant, testing, cleanup, and touch-up paint are all in that number. The only things that can change it are a very long line set, a panel upgrade the house already needed, or unusually difficult mounting, and you hear about those before we schedule.
Does this price cover fixing or servicing a mini split I already have?
No. The flat prices are for new installs only. They are not repair prices, not service call prices, and not maintenance prices. If you already have a unit in the bonus room and it stopped working, this is not the page for that.
Will one head really keep a room over the garage cool in a Copperas Cove August?
For a typical bonus room, yes, because the unit is sized for that room instead of for the whole house. It runs on its own thermostat and does not have to fight duct losses to get there. If the room is oversized or opens into a loft or hallway, tell us on the quote form so the sizing accounts for it.
Do you serve smaller towns off the I-35 corridor, or only the bigger cities?
Copperas Cove is well inside the service area, along with Killeen, Harker Heights, Belton, Temple, Salado, Jarrell, Waco, and the towns between them. Being west of I-35 does not add a trip fee, because there are no trip fees. Start at the quote form at /#quote and we will confirm the zone count and the flat price.
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