Equipment
- Cooper&Hunter OLMO ductless mini-split systems
- Wall-mounted indoor units in classroom spaces
- Outdoor condensers set on concrete pads
- Dedicated electrical circuits with labeled breakers and outdoor disconnects
- UV-protected refrigerant linesets
The starting situation
The Athenian School is a private school in Danville and one of our longest-running commercial clients. We’ve handled dozens of work orders across their campus over the years, so when the facilities team decided it was time to bring real cooling into one of the classroom buildings, they called us.
The building itself is the classic case for ductless. Single-story classroom wings, no ductwork anywhere, heat from old wall furnaces, and no air conditioning at all. Danville afternoons run hot well into September, and the campus doesn’t empty out in summer either. Running new ducts through an occupied school building would have meant weeks of construction, ceiling work, and disruption. Ductless mini-splits solve the same problem with a wall unit inside, a condenser outside, and a three-inch penetration between them.
What we installed
- Cooper&Hunter OLMO ductless mini-split systems serving the classroom spaces
- Wall-mounted indoor units, placed high on interior walls, clear of whiteboards, doors, and sight lines
- Outdoor condensers on concrete pads along the service side of the building, out of student walkways
- Dedicated electrical circuits for the new equipment, with breakers labeled in the panel and code-required disconnects at each condenser
- UV-protected linesets run cleanly along exterior walls
The detail that mattered
This wasn’t an empty building. The campus had summer programs running, which means kids, staff, and parents moving through it every day. That changes how you work: equipment staged tight against the building instead of spread across a walkway, work areas cleaned up completely at the end of each day, arrival and sign-in coordinated with the front desk, and noisy work scheduled around the program’s day.
The small stuff matters on commercial jobs too. Every new circuit got a labeled breaker, so when a facilities person opens that panel two years from now, it says “Mini Split” instead of making them guess. Condensers went on proper pads with disconnects in reach, not on plastic feet in the mulch.
What the school got
Classroom-by-classroom temperature control in a building that never had cooling before, from quiet units that don’t compete with a teacher’s voice. Because the OLMO systems are heat pumps, the same equipment upgrades the heating side over the old wall furnaces as well. The installation carries our 2-year labor warranty, alongside the manufacturer’s equipment warranty. And this isn’t a brand we picked up last week: we’re a Verified Pro technician on Cooper&Hunter’s official locator (C&H Pro-Tech Verified Pro), so the manufacturer knows exactly who put these systems in.
We’re outfitting two classroom buildings on campus in this round of work. That’s the part of B2B work we like most: when a client with years of service history keeps handing you the next building, it means the last one went well.
The photos below show the arrival on campus, the labeled electrical work, and the finished indoor and outdoor installations.
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