Ducted Air Conditioning Edensor Park

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Ducted in Edensor Park homes

Ducted in Edensor Park is usually a replacement rather than a first install, and that shapes the job. The 1980s two-storey homes have a pitched tile roof with a reasonable cavity above the first floor, but what is sitting up there now is often a 1990s fixed-speed unit and twenty-year-old flex duct that has sagged, split and lost its insulation. We strip that out, fit a correctly sized inverter fan coil, and re-run the ducts with proper diameters and short straight paths to each outlet. Zoning follows the way an Edensor Park family actually lives: the upstairs bedrooms as one zone so they can run alone overnight, the downstairs family and kitchen as another for the day, and a third for the formal lounge or study that stays shut most of the week. Ground-floor outlets come down through a cupboard or a boxed bulkhead so they keep their full airflow.

The heat load here is driven by orientation and glass. Most Edensor Park homes were built with big aluminium-framed windows and short eaves, so any bedroom on the north or west side takes the afternoon sun directly, and the tile roof above keeps radiating heat down after sunset on a 40 degree day. We size the upstairs zone above the plain floor-area figure for that reason and put the return air high on the landing where the warm air gathers. The condenser goes on the south or east side of the house where the driveway strip usually leaves room, shaded from the afternoon sun so it holds capacity through a run of hot days. Rear extensions under a flat roof get their own split rather than a long duct branch. Ducted running cost is roughly $1–$2 per hour whole-home, and with zoning used properly a family home sits at the low end of that.