Ducted Air Conditioning Hoxton Park

Local knowledge

Ducted in Hoxton Park homes

Ducted in Hoxton Park is designed around the two-storey project home, because that is most of the suburb. The fan coil goes into the roof cavity above the upstairs hallway, close to the access hatch so a technician can actually service it, and the upstairs bedrooms are fed with short, insulated flexible duct through the trusses. The ground floor is the harder half: there is no cavity above it, so the living, kitchen and any downstairs bedroom are served through a bulkhead running along the hallway or a dropped section of ceiling, planned so it reads as part of the house rather than an afterthought. We zone upstairs and downstairs separately as a minimum, and on the bigger Carnes Hill homes we split the master retreat from the kids rooms so a family is not cooling four bedrooms to sleep in one.

Heat is the whole story here. With 40°C afternoons, no breeze and west-facing glass on most living rooms, the system is sized for the real load, not the floor area, and a rated capacity that would be generous in the eastern suburbs is the honest minimum in Horningsea Park. The condenser goes on the shaded side wherever the setback allows, on a slim bracket or a compact pad where the passage is under a metre, with the discharge turned away from the neighbour and clearance kept for airflow so it does not choke on a 42°C day. Running cost is roughly $1–$2 per hour whole-home, and in practice most Hoxton Park families run only the upstairs zone overnight and the living zone through the afternoon, which keeps the summer bill well under what two or three wall splits would draw.