Ductless Mini-Split & Heat Pumps in Old Hickory, Nashville, TN 37138
Old Hickory started in 1918 as a DuPont gunpowder-plant village with more than 300 permanent homes. We pick up the phone 24/7 and plan ductless and heat pump systems for houses built long before central air.
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- Ductless and ducted heat pumps
- 7,497 owner-occupied homes
Updated October 2026
Mini-split and heat pump work in Old Hickory often involves houses from the original 1918 DuPont village, built long before central air. A ductless system heats and cools room by room through small wall openings, while a ducted heat pump suits houses with a usable attic or crawl space. We look at the house first. Call (615) 412-2815 at any hour.
Ductless or ducted: choosing for an older Old Hickory house
A house from around 1918 was heated with stoves or fireplaces. Any ducts in it now were added later, and in a small house they eat closet space or squeeze through a cramped crawl space. A ductless mini-split skips all of that: a slim head on the wall, a refrigerant line through a small opening in the exterior wall, and a condenser outside.
A ducted heat pump is the other route, and it makes sense where the existing ducts are sound or the crawl space has room for new runs. One outdoor unit and one air handler cover the whole house, and filtering the air is simpler. We look at the floor plan, the ducts and the electrical panel, then price both so you can compare them.
Heat pump and ductless calls from Old Hickory
Ductless Mini-Split Installation
Houses built before central air can get heating and cooling room by room without new trunk lines.
DetailsHeat Pump Installation
Where ducts are sound or the crawl space has room, one ducted heat pump can replace a furnace and window units.
DetailsHeat Pump Repair
Defrost faults and failed capacitors are the common heat pump problems once winter cold sets in.
DetailsMini-Split Repair
A head that drips, blinks a code or blows room-temperature air usually has a drain, sensor or charge problem.
DetailsDuctwork Replacement
Ducts added to older houses decades later are often undersized, and a new layout can serve every room properly.
DetailsHeat Pump Tune-Up
A heat pump runs in both seasons, so a check before summer and before winter keeps the charge and defrost working.
DetailsFrom a 1918 company village to today
Old Hickory began in 1918 as a DuPont gunpowder-plant village with more than 300 permanent homes, and it was run as a company town for years. DuPont did not sell the houses to the workers until 1946. Those houses were built with the heating of their day, long before central air was common in homes.
Today the 37138 ZIP counts 7,497 owner-occupied homes, a mix of those early houses and everything built after. On the older ones we expect retrofits: ducts added later, window units, or a furnace fitted into a closet. That's where a ductless system or a carefully planned ducted heat pump earns its place, and we decide which by looking at each house rather than assuming.
Reaching Old Hickory from Greenbrier
We drive from 2354 US-41 in Greenbrier, about 23 miles north of Nashville, and Old Hickory is on the northeast edge of Davidson County, so traffic sets the drive. For an install visit, have a list of the rooms you want heated and cooled, a sense of whether the crawl space is reachable, and a photo of your electrical panel. For a broken mini-split, read us the error code or describe the blinking lights on the indoor head.
Questions from Old Hickory homeowners
Yes. A ducted or ductless heat pump handles both cooling and heating, so the window units and the furnace can come out.
One multi-zone condenser can run several indoor heads. Larger houses or long line runs sometimes split the load across two.
Yes. The indoor head filters need washing often, and the coil and blower wheel need a deeper cleaning every year or two.
Yes. We answer every call, 24 hours a day, every day.
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