Ducted heating & cooling in Ballarat East.
Ballarat East is the city’s gold-rush heart, full of period weatherboard and solid-brick homes that need a careful hand. We size and install ducted gas heating and cooling for older homes, with honest CO testing on the heaters that need it most.
The Ballarat East heating story.
Period homes, real heat-load challenges.
Ballarat East, Brown Hill and the streets around Bakery Hill are full of Victorian and Federation-era homes: high ceilings, single-skin or solid-brick walls, large draughty sash windows, and often little or no original insulation. These homes lose heat fast, which means floor-area rules of thumb badly undersize a heater here. We do a proper room-by-room heat-load calculation that accounts for the ceiling height, the glazing and the wall construction, so the ducted gas unit we specify actually holds temperature on a 1 degree Ballarat morning rather than running flat out and never catching up.
CO testing matters most here.
Older homes mean older heaters, and Ballarat East has plenty of open-flued gas units of exactly the type covered by Victorian carbon monoxide safety alerts. A cracked heat exchanger or a corroded flue can spill CO into the home, and modern draught-proofing only makes negative pressure worse. We carbon monoxide test every heater we service and tell you straight if a unit is unsafe. If you have an older heater in an East Ballarat period home, a service and CO test should be on your list.
Retrofitting ducts into older homes.
Running new ductwork into a period home takes thought, the roof space can be tight or irregular, and we want to keep duct runs short and well sealed so you are not heating the roof cavity. Where roof access is genuinely limited, an underfloor ducted layout or a carefully planned reverse-cycle design can be the better answer. We work out the practical route at the free measure.
Typical Ballarat East jobs.
- Heat-load-sized ducted gas for a Federation home ($11K-$17K)
- Replacement of an unsafe open-flued heater after a failed CO test ($8K-$13K)
- Underfloor ducted gas where roof access is tight
- Ducted evaporative cooling for a dry summer
- Pre-winter service and carbon monoxide testing (from ~$160)
Other service areas.
Free Ballarat East heating & cooling quote.
Period-home heat-load expertise. Honest CO testing on older heaters.