Air Conditioning Paddington

Paddington pricing starts with the terrace. A single-head split for one room, usually the main bedroom or the rear living area, is $1,800–$3,200 installed. A multi-head with 3 heads covering the living room and two bedrooms from one outdoor unit in the courtyard is $5,500–$8,500, and is the most common terrace solution. Ducted through a slim attic unit or bulkheads runs from ~$11,000 for a compact single-storey terrace, $13,000–$16,000 for a 4-bed home, and $16,000+ for a large three-storey terrace or a Centennial Park house. Annual service is $189, $329 or $349 for split, 3-head multi or ducted, and repairs are $280–$3,500 by fault.

Yes, including the Centennial Park side. That covers the terrace streets between Oxford St and Five Ways, the lanes running down toward Trumper Park, the streets around Paddington Reservoir Gardens and Victoria Barracks, the flat blocks near Glenmore Rd, and the larger homes facing Centennial Park itself. Same-week response is standard for most work in the terrace precinct, and when a heatwave hits we triage breakdowns first, because a top-floor terrace bedroom with a dead unit is not somewhere anyone can sleep.

For a two-storey terrace, the answer is usually a multi-head split: one outdoor unit in the rear courtyard feeding a head in the living room and one in each bedroom, with no ceiling work at all. Where the attic has enough room, or a renovation is opening up the rear, a slim ducted system with an upstairs zone and a downstairs zone gives a cleaner result and runs the whole terrace for roughly $1–$2 per hour. The bigger Federation houses around Centennial Park have proper roof cavities and suit conventional zoned ducted from the start.

Yes, and it is done all the time. Most of Paddington sits in a heritage conservation area, so the rule of thumb is that nothing shows from the street: no outdoor unit on the front, no pipework on the facade, no vents in the front verandah ceiling. Everything goes to the rear, into the courtyard, onto the roof of a rear addition or into the rear lane, and inside the house we use slim ducting or discreet wall heads that leave the plaster cornices and fireplaces alone. We check the council's rules for your street before quoting, so there are no surprises after the deposit.

Your address, photos of the rooms you want conditioned, a photo of the rear courtyard or lane where the outdoor unit would sit, and how many storeys the terrace has. A photo up into the attic hatch, if there is one, tells us whether slim ducted is realistic. Mention whether the front of the house sits in the conservation area, and if the terrace has been strata-titled into flats, let us know, since approval is usually needed for outdoor units on common property and we help with that paperwork.

Yes, on every job. Every refrigerant task on a Paddington install, service or repair is carried out by ARCtick-licensed, insured technicians, and we supply the compliance paperwork when the work is signed off. In a terrace precinct where pipe runs are long and squeezed past a neighbour's wall, licensed pressure testing before commissioning is not optional, and the documentation is something owners keep with the house records for resale.