Air Conditioning Installation & Supply in Grafton

Grafton summers are hot and humid, and a badly chosen air conditioner will make that obvious every January. We supply and install split system, multi-head and ducted air conditioning across Grafton and the Clarence Valley — and, just as importantly, we size it for the room instead of rounding up off a floor area. We hold the ARCtick refrigerant handling licence that is legally required for this work, and we are also a licensed electrician, so the electrical side is not somebody else's problem.

Sizing is the whole job

Almost every air conditioning complaint we get called out to fix traces back to a sizing decision made before anybody picked up a tool.

Undersized and the unit runs flat out on the worst days and never quite gets there. That is the obvious failure, and it is the rarer one.

Oversized is the failure people do not recognise, and in a humid climate like ours it is worse. A unit with too much capacity cools the air to setpoint fast and switches off — before it has run long enough to pull any real moisture out. You end up with a room that reads twenty-three degrees and feels clammy, a compressor that short-cycles itself to an early death, and a power bill that makes no sense. On the Clarence, dehumidification is half of what you are buying.

Correct sizing takes account of the room volume, not just the floor area; the amount and orientation of glazing; ceiling height and insulation; how many people are usually in there; and what the room is used for. That takes ten minutes on site and saves years of annoyance.

What we install

We are not tied to one brand, which means we can recommend what actually suits the job and your budget rather than what we happen to stock.

On the coast — Yamba, Iluka, Maclean and anywhere in the Lower Clarence — we will also steer you toward a corrosion-treated condenser coil. Salt air destroys standard coils, and the premium at purchase is far cheaper than replacing the unit years early.

Installed properly, cleaned up after

Three of our four Google reviews mention the same thing, unprompted: the site was left clean. That is not an accident. Drop sheets go down, the core drill gets vacuumed as it goes, offcuts leave with us and the job gets swept before we do.

The parts you cannot see matter more. Brazed joints done properly under nitrogen. The system evacuated with a vacuum pump and held, rather than gassed and hoped for — moisture left in a system is what kills compressors. Condensate drained to somewhere that will still work in five years instead of dribbling down your wall. Pipework run neatly and lagged. Brackets sized and fixed to something structural. And a Certificate of Compliance for the electrical work at the end.

Supply, or install what you have bought

We can supply the equipment as part of the job, which is usually the simplest route and means one party is responsible if something goes wrong. We are also happy to install a unit you have bought yourself — but talk to us before you buy it, not after. We would rather spend ten minutes checking that what is in your cart is the right capacity, the right type and appropriate for your location than turn up to install something that was never going to work.

How a air conditioning job runs

Our air conditioning services

Every one of these has its own page with the detail, the pricing factors and the questions we get asked most.

Where we do this work

Grafton, the suburbs around it, and the rural blocks past the edge of town.

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