Split aircon installation across Cape Town

    Services

    Aircon services across Cape Town

    Five kinds of job, from a first unit in a bedroom to a repair on one that has stopped cooling. Each one below says what the work is and what paperwork goes with it.

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    White split aircon mounted high above a bed in a bedroom with blue-grey linen

    Home aircon installation

    A split unit for a bedroom, lounge or open-plan room, sized from the room's floor area and the maker's own sizing table.

    Paperwork: A gas certificate of conformity from an SAQCC Gas registered practitioner, and an electrical certificate of compliance if a new circuit goes in. New units cannot run on R22: it has been banned in new installs since 1 January 2015.

    Installing an aircon at home
    Small office with four desks and monitors, two white split aircons on the walls and roller blinds half down

    Office aircon installation

    Split units for small offices, consulting rooms and shops, sized room by room.

    Paperwork: The same gas and electrical certificates as a home install. In a sectional-title building, the default conduct rules also need the trustees' written consent before a unit is fixed to a common-property wall.

    Aircon for offices and consulting rooms
    Gloved hands lifting a dusty filter out of a split aircon indoor unit, a brush and spray bottle on a stepladder below

    Aircon servicing

    Cleaning the filters, coil and drain of a unit that is already on the wall, and checking it runs as it should.

    Paperwork: Warranties can depend on it. Samsung Air, a Samsung distributor, ties its 5-year cover to servicing as the warranty card sets out, so keep the service record.

    What a service covers
    Aircon outdoor unit with its side panel off, red and blue gauge hoses connected to the copper service valves

    Repairs and regas

    For a unit that has stopped cooling, drips water indoors, makes a new noise or trips the power.

    Paperwork: Work on the refrigerant side counts too: the Department of Employment and Labour's guidance covers repairing and maintaining a refrigeration system, not only installing one.

    Aircon repairs and regassing
    Lounge on a rainy evening, lamp on, throw on the couch, a white split aircon high on the wall

    Aircon for winter heating

    A reverse-cycle split heats as well as cools, so one unit covers a cold, wet Cape winter and the summer after it.

    Paperwork: The same install certificates apply. On the unit itself, LG South Africa lists a 10-year compressor warranty on selected inverter models, for parts only.

    Heating with a reverse-cycle aircon

    Whoever does the work

    The installer who does the work must be SAQCC Gas registered. Ask to see the card, and you can check it on SAQCC Gas's public search, which looks people up by surname, registration number or suburb. Not sure which job you need? Describe the room or the problem on the quote form and we will tell you.

    Install examples

    Where a split unit can go

    These are illustrations made to show typical placements. They are not photographs of completed jobs.

    Bedrooms, kitchens, home offices and the outdoor unit outside. Tap a picture to open it larger.

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    White split aircon high on the wall of a child's bedroom above a desk and single bed
    White split aircon above a passage opening in an open-plan lounge and kitchen
    Two aircon outdoor units stacked on a steel frame against a face-brick wall, wheelie bins beside them
    White split aircon above a timber desk in a home office with a bookshelf
    Aircon outdoor unit on rubber feet on a flat concrete roof, pipe running into the wall
    White split aircon in a small treatment room with a massage bed by the window
    Outdoor unit high on a plastered wall with white trunking running down the wall
    White split aircon above a double bed in a pale blue bedroom with a ceiling fan