Ducted Air Conditioning Stanmore

Local knowledge

Ducted in Stanmore homes

Stanmore is one of the easier Inner West suburbs for ducted, because the Federation villas and double-fronted Victorians were built with tall pitched roofs and a central hallway that makes an obvious spine for the ductwork. The fan coil sits above the hall, supply runs branch to each room, and the return air grille goes in the hallway ceiling where it is least noticed. The care is in the ceilings: many rooms still carry pressed metal or ornate plaster, so we place outlets in the plainest sections or in the rear extension and leave the decorative work alone. A single-fronted terrace with a low skillion at the back usually gets a multi-head split instead.

Zoning in Stanmore follows the way these houses were extended: original bedrooms at the front under the high roof, and a kitchen-living space opened up at the back, often with a glass wall onto the yard. Two or three zones split those halves so the bedrooms cool overnight while the living area rests, at roughly $1–$2 per hour when the whole home runs. The outdoor unit goes at the rear or down the side passage, never on the street elevation, keeping the heritage streetscape intact and the compressor out of earshot of the front verandah. The driver is a still, humid summer with windows shut against Parramatta Rd traffic and aircraft, when plane-tree shade stops being enough by mid-afternoon.