Air conditioning in Brighton

Air conditioning installation in Brighton

Brighton gets plenty of sun, and its tall Regency and Victorian houses, top-floor flats and glass-fronted shops can trap a lot of it. We install, service and repair air conditioning across Brighton and Hove, from a single wall-mounted unit in a bedroom or home office to multi-split systems for a whole house and commercial systems for offices, cafés, shops and hotels.

We’re based in East Grinstead, West Sussex, and we work across the city and the rest of Sussex. We’re an F-Gas certified company, NICEIC approved for electrical work and MCS certified for heat pumps. We fit leading brands, including Mitsubishi Electric, Daikin, Fujitsu, Panasonic, Toshiba and LG, and we explain the manufacturer’s warranty for your chosen unit on the quote.

The process is simple. We look at the property on a site survey, or from photos and measurements for straightforward jobs. You get a fixed-price quote. We do the work, then commission the system, record the refrigerant details for your F-Gas records and show you how to use it. A single-room split system is typically £1,200–£2,200 + VAT, and a two-room multi-split £2,800–£4,500 + VAT. Our guide to air conditioning costs in Brighton explains what moves the price.

If your existing system has stopped cooling, we repair all makes, with diagnosis from £75 + VAT. Regular servicing matters more than usual near the sea, as the next section explains.

Not sure what you need yet? Tell us which rooms get too hot, which way they face and what kind of building you’re in, and we’ll suggest a sensible starting point before the survey.

Sea air, tall houses and outdoor units

Salt in the air is hard on outdoor units. It settles on the aluminium fins and copper pipes of the outdoor coil, and over time it can corrode them. Close to the seafront, that wear happens faster than it does inland. Several manufacturers offer coil coatings or models built for coastal sites, and their installation manuals give guidance on where to put units near the sea. We take that into account when we choose the unit and its position, often a sheltered side of the building rather than one facing straight into the wind off the Channel.

Maintenance makes the biggest difference. Rinsing salt and grime off the outdoor coil, checking the fins and fixings, and looking for early signs of corrosion are all part of our service visit. For a property near the front, a yearly service is a sensible minimum. Our guide to protecting air conditioning from salt air goes further.

Brighton’s housing brings its own puzzles. Many houses are tall and narrow, split into flats, with the best spot for an outdoor unit on a rear wall, a flat roof or a basement area. Pipework may need to rise several floors, and every manufacturer sets limits on length and height between the indoor and outdoor units, so we plan the route before quoting. In basement flats, getting condensate water away can mean a small condensate pump.

Modern blocks near the marina and the city centre often have balconies, but many leases and building managers control what goes on them. Newer buildings may also have rules about fixings to cladding. We’ll look at what your building allows and work with your managing agent where needed.

Most split systems also heat. The Energy Saving Trust notes that air-to-air heat pumps are sometimes referred to as air conditioning, and in a draughty period house a unit in heat mode can be a useful top-up in spring and autumn.

Sizing is worth getting right in Brighton’s big bay-fronted rooms and glazed extensions. An undersized unit runs flat out and still struggles; an oversized one switches on and off and wastes energy. We measure each room, note the windows and which way they face, and size the unit to suit.

Our services in Brighton

• Air conditioning installation (from £1,200 + VAT): Air conditioning designed, supplied and installed for your home or business, with a site survey, a fixed-price quote, F-Gas certified engineers and full commissioning.
• Air conditioning repair (from £75 + VAT call-out): Air conditioning faults diagnosed and repaired by F-Gas certified engineers, with the cause explained and a fixed price agreed before the repair goes ahead.
• Air conditioning servicing (from £95 + VAT): Annual air conditioning servicing that cleans, checks and tests the whole system, with F-Gas leak checks recorded where the rules require them.
• Commercial air conditioning (commercial systems priced after survey): Commercial air conditioning designed, installed and maintained for offices, shops, restaurants, hotels, schools, surgeries and server rooms, with the F-gas paperwork kept in order.
• Heat pump installation (£8,000–£16,000 (0% VAT on homes), before the grant): Air source heat pumps designed and installed by an MCS certified installer, with a heat loss survey, a fixed-price quote and the Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant applied for on your behalf.

We also offer 24/7 emergency repair, regas, air-to-air heat pumps, ventilation and MVHR, TM44 inspections, air con hire and maintenance contracts.

Around Brighton

From the centre, the nearest railway station is London Road (Brighton) station. Well-known places nearby include Churchill Square (1 mile south-west), Brighton General Hospital (0.7 miles east) and Old Police Cells Museum (1 mile south-west). Homes and businesses we cover around the centre include those near places such as Fairlight Primary School, Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College, Academy of Creative Training and St Martin's Church. Green spaces within reach include Whitehawk Hill and Newmarket Hill.