Air Conditioning Menai

Menai is dominated by two-storey family homes, so the common quote is ducted at $16,000+ for a two-level project home zoned by floor, or $13,000–$16,000 for a four-bedroom single-storey home of the same era. A compact system for a smaller single-storey home or villa starts from ~$11,000. Replacing a first-generation ducted system usually lands in the same bands, because the old ducting is rarely worth keeping. A single-head split is $1,800–$3,200 and a multi-head with 3 heads is $5,500–$8,500. Repairs come in at $280–$3,500 depending on the fault, and the price is fixed before we begin. Yearly servicing is $189 for a split, $329 for a 3-head multi-head and $349 for ducted.

Yes, all of 2234 on the Menai side: the ridge streets around Menai Marketplace and Menai High, the cul-de-sacs running toward the bush on both sides, Bangor, Barden Ridge, and Lucas Heights out to the ANSTO end. Same-week response for most work, and breakdowns are triaged first in a heatwave, which on this ridge is when the 1990s ducted systems fail in numbers. Illawong and Alfords Point on the river side of 2234 have their own page, but the crew that does one does the other.

For the standard 1980s or 90s two-storey brick veneer home, ducted zoned by level at $16,000+ is the right answer: the upstairs bedroom zone runs alone at night, the downstairs living zone carries the afternoon load, and the whole thing runs at roughly $1–$2 per hour whole-home. A single-storey home of the same era is a $13,000–$16,000 zoned ducted job. If the house already has 1990s ducting that still works, a like-for-like replacement of the unit is sometimes possible, but we check the ducting before promising it. For a villa or townhouse near the shops a multi-head split at $5,500–$8,500 covers the living room and two bedrooms.

The 1980s and 90s project homes on the ridge have a low-pitched concrete tile roof with a shallow cavity and, in most cases, thin or settled insulation, so the tiles soak up heat all afternoon and radiate it into the upstairs rooms long after the sun has gone. A single split downstairs does nothing for it. The fix is ducted with a dedicated upstairs zone, a low-profile fan coil in the upper cavity, and a return air placed upstairs so the system is moving the hot air out rather than pushing cool air into it. We often recommend topping up the ceiling insulation at the same time, because it makes the zone cheaper to run every summer afterwards.

Your address, a photo of each main room on both levels, a photo of the side or back of the house where the outdoor unit could sit, and a shot of the roof from the street so we can judge the pitch and the tile. Tell us which way the living room faces, whether there is an existing ducted system and how old it is, and whether the house has been extended. On the bush-edge streets toward Lucas Heights a photo of the backyard shows us the canopy and the litter line. From those we give a fixed price that covers the ember screening and the access, and that price holds on the day.

Yes. Every refrigerant task on a Luxe Air job in Menai is done by ARCtick-licensed, insured technicians, which is the licence the law requires for handling refrigerant and the one your manufacturer warranty depends on. That includes the decommissioning of an old 1990s ducted system, where the refrigerant has to be recovered properly rather than vented. You receive the compliance paperwork when the install or repair is signed off, and we log the system so the annual $349 ducted service is booked against it.