Ducted Air Conditioning Canley Vale

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Ducted in Canley Vale homes

Ducted in Canley Vale is mostly a job in a 1950s or 60s detached home with a pitched tiled roof and a hall manhole, which is about as straightforward as roof work gets. The fan coil sits at the high point of the cavity, insulated flexible duct runs to each room, and because these houses are low-set and rectangular the runs are short and even, so the back bedrooms cool as well as the lounge. We zone by how the house is used: the front living and kitchen as one zone, the bedrooms as a second, and any rear extension or enclosed verandah as a third with its own bulkhead outlet if the addition has no roof cavity. Where the house has no ceiling insulation, which is most of the fibro ones, we say so in the quote, because adding it will lower the running cost more than any change to the unit.

Heat is the design driver in Canley Vale. There is no breeze to help the outdoor unit through a long afternoon, so we put it on the shaded south or east side of the house on a slab off the driveway, away from a west wall that radiates back at it, and clear of the granny flat door if one occupies the back yard. Running cost is roughly $1–$2 per hour whole-home, and the zoning is what keeps that honest over a summer: bedrooms only overnight, living zone in the afternoon, the inverter idling rather than cycling. In winter, when the nights go near zero and a fibro house loses its heat in an hour, the same reverse-cycle system warms the whole home for less than the plug-in heaters it replaces.