Warmer weather!! Clifton is willing to stick his nose out from under his blanket, now that we are past the coldest of the weather. Even at -20 our mini-splits did great at the Oaklands. So mini splits work just like a refrigerator or window AC unit. The compressor for the apartment is on the roof, it compresses a refrigerant gas in a thin tube and pumps it down to the apartment. At the apartment the little tube gets much bigger, and when the gas expands quickly to spread out in the much bigger tube, it absorbs lots of energy from the area around it, which cools. The refrigerant gas continues in a loop back up to the compressor on the roof where it is squeezed back down again. The gas in… More