Ducted Air Conditioning Balmain

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Ducted in Balmain homes

Ducted in Balmain is a question of roof height before anything else. The peninsula's Victorian terraces carry slate or iron on low, cramped framing, and many sandstone cottages have attic rooms tucked into whatever pitch there was, so we measure the cavity before promising anything. Where there is room, a slim-line fan coil goes over the hallway with short duct runs to each room, zoned the way these floor plans share: front rooms and rear living downstairs, bedrooms upstairs on their own. Homes with a rear extension under a new roof are the easiest, because the new section carries the plant and feeds the old rooms forward.

The outdoor unit is the other half. With most of Balmain in a heritage conservation area it sits at the rear or down a side passage out of street view, and on the tightest terraces that means a wall bracket above the courtyard rather than a slab. On the foreshore streets around Mort Bay, Birchgrove and Elkington Park we specify corrosion-protected outdoor units for the harbour salt and add a coil clean to the annual service. The climate driver is humidity more than peak heat: the breeze takes the edge off afternoons, but brick and stone hold moisture into the night, so we size ducted plant to dehumidify bedrooms properly rather than chase a headline kilowatt figure.