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How Ducted Air Conditioners Work

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When you’re suffering in heat waves, the last thing you want to do is sit in front of a wall air conditioner and wait for your room to cool. It’s much better to come home from work and be greeted with a uniformly cooled and dehumidified house. Ducted air conditioners generate cool air from a compressor/ condensing unit that sits outside of your home, connected to an indoor fan coil unit, located within the roof cavity of the house. Ductwork runs through the house and outputs the cool air via a series of vents (diffuser outlets) in each room. Nowadays, most ducted air conditioners, called reverse-cycled ducted units, also heat your home during the winter months.

If you feel that centralised ducted air conditioners are not as efficient as other cooling options, you can opt for a zoned ducted air conditioning system that allows you to control the amount of cooling in each zone of the house. You can keep the areas you’re using cool, while keeping the cooling system off in other areas of the home. Another advantage of this air conditioning system is the sound output is low. You certainly don’t have to worry about the overpowering sound of the old style box air conditioners or “window rattlers”.

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You need professional installation for this type of air conditioning system. Not many houses have pre-installed duct work necessary to connect into the ducted system, so the installers put the duct work in and the compressor/ condensing unit/ indoor fan coil unit and test that everything is working. They design the system to work perfectly with your house setup, so you can designate zoned cooling around the house. Professional installers also choose a ducted system that’s powerful enough to cool your home, with zoning often a main consideration. It is a customised ducted system that takes many factors into consideration, with the experienced staff providing you a detailed written recommendation and quotation after they’ve assessed your house setup.

Should you want to find out more information about our ducted air conditioning installation please email or contact us today at (07) 3269 8450.

The Benefits Of Using Ducted Air Conditioning In Your Office

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Having a climate-controlled office is a must, especially during Brisbane’s humid, hot months.  Employees and clients will appreciate the comfort of a reasonable temperature and the quality of air provided by a sufficient air conditioning system in an office.  Many options exist to provide an office building with appropriate climate control.  One system to strongly consider, especially for large spaces such as commercial office buildings, is a ducted air conditioning system.

 

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A ducted system is usually comprised of an outdoor compressor and an indoor air handling unit.  These components work together, utilising an infrastructure of ducts to circulate filtered, conditioned air throughout a building.  Though the initial cost of a ducted system is comparatively higher than other options, there are a number of benefits to a ducted air conditioning solution that you should consider.

There are two key reasons to choose a ducted air conditioning solution: value and aesthetics.  These systems will always pay back on the initial investment, and they are much more aesthetically pleasing than the alternative.

1. Value and Efficiency

The initial cost of having a ducted system installed into your office building is not just an expense: it’s an investment.  Ducted air conditioning systems are highly efficient, very reliable, and are cost-effective to operate.  With such options as zoning control, you can choose to heat or cool only rooms and work areas currently occupied, thus saving energy.  These climate control systems effectively and evenly distribute air throughout a building, eliminating annoying hot and cold spots.  Making the investment of having a quality ducted system installed will boost the value of your building and lower annual energy consumption, both of which provide a notable return on investment.

2. Silent and Concealed

Ducted air conditioning operates in virtual silence from room to room.  By centralising the compressor and air handling units, air enters each room through a concealed duct void of any noise-making machinery.  Thus, a ducted system provides for peaceful work areas, waiting rooms, meeting rooms and common areas.  The tranquillity of a silently operating climate control system, free also of any eye sores such as box air conditioners hanging from every window, creates a peaceful, comfortable office environment.

Weighing the features and cost of a ducted air conditioning climate control system against alternative systems, you should consider having such a system installed into your office building.  The value, key benefits, and simplicity of use that a ducted system brings will more than pay back the initial investment.

Contact Brisbane Air today to discover which commercial air conditioning unit is the right one for your business!