Most Langwarrin houses are single storey with a roof space you can stand in, which makes them ideal for ducted reverse cycle on new R1.5 insulated ducts. Out on the acreage we fit multi-head and split systems. ARC licensed, VEU discount on the quote.
Langwarrin was built out in the 1980s and 1990s, and the builders of the day put the same heating in nearly every house: a gas furnace in the roof and flexible ducts to a ceiling vent in each room. Those homes sit on bigger blocks than most of Melbourne, so the floor plans are long and spread out, with the main bedroom at one end and the family room at the other. The original heater is now on borrowed time, and the far rooms have never been as warm as the near ones.
The good news is that these houses are the easy ones to do properly. A single-storey home with a pitched tile roof has a roof space our installers can move around in, so the old furnace and every old duct come out. A ducted reverse cycle unit goes in with new R1.5 insulated ducts sized to it, the runs to the far rooms are designed instead of guessed, and the house gains cooling it did not have before. Reverse cycle heating runs at around a third of the running cost of gas heating.
Langwarrin is not all suburban streets. Towards the eastern and southern edges the properties are acreage and hobby farms, where plenty of houses have no ducts at all and heat with wood or bottled gas. There the right answer is usually a multi-head or a few split systems. Both kinds of job sit beside the rest of our Langwarrin work.
Braemar, Mitsubishi Electric and Hisense equipment with AirTouch 5 control, fitted by our own refrigeration technicians and electricians.
The standard Langwarrin job. Gas furnace and old ductwork removed from the roof space, a ducted reverse cycle unit installed, and new R1.5 insulated ducts run to every outlet with a correctly sized return air. The outdoor unit sits on a pad along the side of the house, where a Langwarrin block has space to spare.
AirTouch 5 with a temperature sensor in each zone, so the bedroom wing is shut down while the family room is in use and the reverse at night. On a long floor plan this is what stops the system heating rooms nobody is in.
For acreage homes on wood or bottled gas, older weatherboards and granny flats. Mitsubishi Electric and Hisense wall units, each installed in a few hours, with a multi-head running several rooms from a single outdoor unit.
A ducted unit needs its own circuit and a board with capacity for it. Boards from the 1980s often need upgrading first. Our A-Grade electricians do that in the same job, so there is no second trade to organise.
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.
We do not have a Langwarrin heating job written up yet. These three, from Narre Warren South, Doreen and Cairnlea, are the same kind of house and the same kind of swap.
A 23.5kW ducted reverse cycle system on R1.5 insulated ductwork feeding 16 round outlets. Six AirTouch 5 zones give the lounge, the study and the bedrooms separate control. The owner started with ceiling fans and kept going.
In Doreen, one team replaced gas ducted heating, gas hot water and a gas cooktop in a single job. The 23.5kW ducted reverse cycle system runs 12 vents across seven AirTouch 5 zones, with a Reclaim heat pump for hot water.
Across town in Cairnlea, a gas ducted system was decommissioned and an 18kW Mitsubishi Electric reverse cycle unit fitted, with ducting to ten vents and seven AirTouch 5 zones. That job carried a $6,300 rebate.
Ducted reverse cycle with new R1.5 ducts is typically one to two days on site. A split system is a few hours.
We measure the run to every room, look at the return air position and check the switchboard and the spot for the outdoor unit.
Window size, orientation and room volume set the capacity and the duct sizes. The old furnace rating is not used as a guide.
Usually living, bedrooms and main bedroom as a minimum, more where the house has a rumpus or study wing.
Unit, ducts, outlets, zoning, electrical work and the after-discount total. Nothing is added on the day.
Old gear removed, new system fitted, airflow balanced so the far bedrooms get their share, and both modes tested with you.
One discount up front, then a lower bill each quarter.
A gas furnace only heats. The reverse cycle unit that replaces it cools the whole house through the same new ducts, so there is no second system to buy for summer.
Langwarrin is inside the VEU area. The discount applies to efficient reverse cycle systems and is at its largest when the new system takes the place of gas heating. We put it on the quote, so you do not claim anything back.
A big Langwarrin roof can carry enough panels to run the heating through a winter day, with a battery covering the evening. We size both to the new load: see solar and battery in Langwarrin.
A new unit on thirty-year-old gas ducts will heat. It will not cool well, and it will not reach the far end of a long house.
Where the roof space is accessible, which is most of Langwarrin, old ducts come out and new R1.5 insulated ducts go in. We do not quote around it.
ARC authorisation AU 065299 for the refrigeration, BPC 132072 for the mechanical work, REC 32300 for the electrical. All our own people.
A township brick veneer and an acreage weatherboard need different systems. We install both and have no reason to push one.
The depot is in Somerville, about 7 km from Langwarrin. If a zone wants adjusting after the first frost, it is a short trip back.
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Anything else, call 0466 355 441. You will get a technician, not a salesperson.
Usually the ducts. Long runs of old, thin, leaky ducting lose heat before the air arrives. New R1.5 insulated ducts sized for each run, with the airflow balanced at handover, fix that.
Replace them. Langwarrin homes are almost all single storey with an accessible roof space, so new R1.5 insulated ducts sized to the new unit are the default. Keeping existing ducts with a Braemar Dominator is only for homes where the ducts cannot be reached, usually double-storey.
A multi-head or individual split systems in the rooms you use. If the roof space allows and you want every room done, we can also design a new ducted system from scratch.
Ducted reverse cycle with new R1.5 ducts is typically one to two days. We plan the changeover so the house is not left without heating longer than it needs to be.
On a pad at ground level, usually along the side of the house away from bedrooms and the neighbours. Most Langwarrin blocks give us more than one option.
VEU applies to efficient reverse cycle systems, and it is largest when gas heating is replaced. What you get depends on the property and what is there now. We confirm it before you commit.
A look in the roof space and at the switchboard, then a written quote with the unit, new ducts, zones and the after-VEU price. No obligation.
