Open-plan living, a bedroom wing and an LPG or wood heater at one end. We replace that with zoned ducted reverse cycle on new R1.5 insulated ducts, or multi-head and high-wall units sized to the room, fitted by our own ARC licensed technicians.
Homes in Langwarrin South are generally bigger than suburban Frankston houses. Many were built with a large open-plan family area, a separate formal lounge and the bedrooms down a wing of their own. Heating them has usually meant a wood heater in the family room, an LPG ducted system, or both. The room with the fire gets hot while the far bedrooms stay cold, and the LPG system is expensive to run on a property that is otherwise moving to electricity.
Reverse cycle spreads the warmth more evenly, adds cooling for summer, and runs at around a third of the running cost of gas heating. In a house with an accessible roof space, a ducted system on new R1.5 insulated ducts, zoned by living area and bedroom wing, covers the whole home. Where part of the house has raked ceilings or an extension with no roof space, a multi-head or a large high-wall unit looks after that part, and the two approaches can be combined.
What decides the design is room volume, ceiling height and where the outdoor unit can sit without a long pipe run, so we measure all of it on site. More on what we do locally is on the Langwarrin South page.
Braemar, Mitsubishi Electric and Hisense, with AirTouch 5 zoning. Refrigeration, ducting and electrical by our own crew.
The old LPG furnace and ducts come out, a ducted reverse cycle unit goes in, and new R1.5 insulated ducts run to every room. Zones follow the layout of the house: living, bedroom wing, formal lounge or study, each with its own AirTouch 5 sensor.
Open-plan family rooms with high or raked ceilings need more capacity than the floor area suggests. A Mitsubishi Electric or Hisense unit sized for the room volume, or two smaller units at either end, keeps the temperature even from the kitchen to the couch.
Uncommon on single-storey homes out here. Where an existing ducted system runs through a space nobody can reach, a Braemar Dominator takes the old heater position and controls the airflow through the ducts already there.
Some owners keep the wood heater for the coldest nights. Reverse cycle then handles everyday heating, the bedroom wing and all of the summer cooling, so the fire becomes a choice rather than a chore.
The full range is on our products page.
Ducted reverse cycle, including the Dominator for homes where the existing ducts have to stay.
Ducted units for tight roof spaces, plus split and multi-head systems.
Ducted and split systems, with anti-corrosive Golden Fin coils on the ducted range.
Zoning control for ducted systems, with a sensor in each zone and control from your phone.
None of these is in Langwarrin South, but each is the kind of home and job we see here.
Down the Peninsula in Blairgowrie, a double-storey home was rewired to three phase and taken off gas entirely, with Mitsubishi Electric split systems for heating and cooling alongside solar, a battery, heat pump hot water and induction cooking.
In Berwick, a 16kW Braemar Dominator ducted system on AirTouch 5 with two zones went in with a 30.6kWh battery, so the day's solar heats and cools the house after dark. We lodged the rebate paperwork.
North of the city in Doreen, gas ducted heating was decommissioned and a 23.5kW ducted reverse cycle system installed through 12 vents and seven AirTouch 5 zones, with heat pump hot water and an induction cooktop in the same job.
Typically one to two days for ducted on new R1.5 ducts, and a few hours for each split system.
LPG ducted, wood, splits or a mix, and which rooms are never comfortable whatever you do.
We measure the big rooms properly, ceiling height included, because that is what sets the capacity.
Zones agreed around how the house is used, and the outdoor unit placed for a short pipe run and low noise near bedrooms.
Brand, capacity, ducts or heads, zoning and the VEU discount where the property qualifies.
Our crew installs it, balances the airflow between zones and shows you the controller.
Most of the saving here comes from what you stop buying.
If heating is the main LPG load, moving it to reverse cycle cuts the bottles you order through winter. Hot water and cooking can follow later.
For efficient reverse cycle heating and cooling, and largest when a gas heater is replaced. Whether an LPG or wood-heated home qualifies, and for how much, depends on the system coming out, so we confirm it on site.
A reverse cycle system running through the afternoon draws heavily on rooftop solar. See solar and batteries in Langwarrin South.
Undersized units in big rooms are the most common complaint we hear. We size to stop that happening.
High ceilings and open plans are where undersized units struggle, so we measure instead of estimating.
Ducted jobs get new R1.5 insulated ducts sized to the unit. A Dominator is used only where ducts cannot be replaced.
ARC licensed technicians under authorisation AU 065299, BPC 132072 for mechanical work, REC 32300 for electrical.
About ten minutes from Somerville, so service and follow-up visits are easy to arrange.
Live Google reviews. Look for the ducted reverse cycle and AirTouch jobs.
For anything not covered here, call 0466 355 441.
Yes, if it is sized for the room volume. A large family room with a high ceiling may need a bigger unit than the floor area suggests, or two units. We work it out on site.
Yes. The LPG heater comes out and a ducted reverse cycle unit goes in on new R1.5 insulated ducts, typically over one to two days. If the ducts cannot be reached, a Braemar Dominator can work with the existing ones.
Yes. AirTouch 5 zoning lets you heat the living area during the day and the bedrooms at night, each with its own temperature sensor.
Close to the indoor unit or ducts, on a pad or bracket, and away from bedroom windows where we can manage it. On acreage there is usually plenty of choice.
Typically one to two days with new R1.5 ducts. Bigger homes with more zones sit towards the longer end. Split systems take a few hours each.
Sometimes. It depends on the heater being replaced and the new unit. We check at the visit and only show a discount if the job qualifies.
We measure the rooms, check the roof space and switchboard, then send a written quote with the brand, capacity, zones and any VEU discount. No obligation.
