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You want cooling in a room that doesn’t have it, installed and wired properly rather than hung off whatever circuit happens to be nearby. This page is for homeowners, landlords and renovators in Annerley and the surrounding southside who need a split system supplied, mounted and connected by a licensed electrical contractor. If you’ve already bought the unit, that’s fine — we’ll do the install and the electrical work either way.
Do we come to Annerley? We come to you across Annerley — homes and businesses alike, with the same team and the same call-out process throughout the area.
Air Conditioning Installation in Annerley
At the end of it you have a head unit on the wall where you asked for it, an outdoor condenser sitting level on a solid base with clearance around it, and the pipework and condensate drain run so they go where they need to go without crossing the front of your house. The circuit is the part most people don’t see: the unit gets its own protected supply from the switchboard rather than sharing with the kitchen, so it starts under load without tripping anything. It’s tested, the remote is paired, and you get the paperwork that comes with licensed electrical work.
How it works
We start with photos or a site visit — the room, the wall you want the head on, the outside wall behind it, and your switchboard. That tells us the capacity you actually need and whether the board has room for another circuit.
You get a fixed price before anything is booked. On install day the head and the bracket go up first, then the core hole and the pipe run, then the outdoor unit. Lines are vacuumed and pressure-checked before the gas is released — skipping that is how systems end up short of performance a year later. Then we connect and test the circuit, run the system through heating and cooling, show you the controls, and take the packaging with us.
Most single-head installs are a day. Multi-head or a long pipe run can push into a second.
What it costs
We won’t publish a number that isn’t yours. What moves the price is capacity, whether it’s one head or several off a single condenser, how far the pipework has to travel, how hard the outdoor unit is to reach and mount, and what your switchboard needs before it can carry another circuit. That last one is the common surprise, which is why we look at the board before quoting rather than after. You’ll get the whole figure up front, and if we find something behind a wall that changes it, we tell you before we keep going.
There’s a good chance your place is older than the average install. Brisbane City Plan 2014’s Traditional building character overlay maps 136 character areas — about 122 hectares within a kilometre of the centre here — covering housing built before the end of 1946, with extra considerations for anything pre-1911. Timber-framed homes of that era don’t have the wall cavities a newer build gives you to hide pipework in, and their switchboards were never designed for a compressor. So we plan the route and the outdoor unit position around the building: out of sight from the street where we can, fixed into something that will actually hold it, and with the board checked properly before we add to it.
Getting started
Send through four photos — the room, the wall you want the head on, the outside wall behind it, and your switchboard with the cover on. We’ll come back with the right capacity for the space and a fixed price. If you’d rather we came and looked, say so and we’ll book a time.
Common questions
Can you install in a pre-war character home?
Yes. Housing built before the end of 1946 makes up a large share of the stock around here — City Plan’s character overlay maps about 122 hectares of it within a kilometre of the centre — so it’s ordinary work for us. The difference is planning: where the pipework runs, where the outdoor unit sits, and what the switchboard can take.
Can I buy the unit myself and just have you install it?
Yes. We’ll install and connect a unit you’ve supplied. It’s worth sending us the model before you buy so we can tell you whether the capacity suits the room.
Does an air conditioner need its own circuit?
That’s how we install them — a dedicated protected supply from the switchboard, rather than sharing with an existing circuit, so the unit starts under load without tripping anything.
What if my switchboard is too old to take it?
We check the board before quoting, not after, so any work it needs is in the price you’re given rather than turning up as an extra on the day.
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