Barnhouse A/C Help

[Ivanite]

I'm in the proccess of buileing a Barn House. I'm getting to the a/c part. What are your thoughts of Hard Duct vs the normal Flex Duct. My only worry is that over time Critters (shouldn't) might get in a tear it up. What did yall do?

Thanks

[krisw]

I hate hard duct. It's better by a mile though. Or it used to be. If it was going to be something I could see, without a doubt it would be hard pipe. It looks better. If you don't have the sheetrock in the ceiling, it's really not that big a pain to deal with. You could always run the main trunks in hard pipe and tie in with flex.

[Stan R]

Several on here have mentioned a split or multi zone system.

Mini units in each room.

I do not think there are ducts involved with that.

[Tmag]

I built a hard duct manifold from one end of my attic to the other end and ran flex ducts off of it into my rooms. Started large at the a/c and reduced size in step downs at 2 places I believe. It works great for us, the master suite is at the far end from the unit and it is as cold there as it is in the rooms at the unit.

[elliscountyhog]

Will ducts be exposed in the conditioned space or above an ceiling in a attic type set up?