Ducted Air Conditioning Matraville

Local knowledge

Ducted in Matraville homes

Ducted air conditioning in Matraville is mostly about doing justice to solid post-war bungalows. The hipped tile roofs of the 1950s and 60s leave a cavity that takes a standard fan coil, and the plans, three bedrooms off a hall with a lounge at the front and a kitchen at the back, zone cleanly into bedrooms and living. Many of these houses now carry a rear extension or an enclosed verandah, and we treat that as its own zone so the family room is not fighting the original house for air. Double-brick walls take longer to penetrate, and we plan the drain and refrigerant runs so we core through as few of them as possible.

The southerly decides where the outdoor unit goes. On a typical Matraville block the compressor sits on the northern or eastern side of the house, behind the building line where the wind and salt off Botany Bay are broken by the house itself, and it is a corrosion-rated model regardless of how far the street is from the water. Cooling loads are moderate because the same wind caps the summer heat, so we do not oversize; instead we make sure the heating output holds up on cold, blustery July days, when a well-zoned ducted system running at roughly $1–$2 per hour is the cheapest way to warm a double-brick house that holds the cold.