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Air conditioning installation in West Hampstead
Expert air conditioning for West Hampstead: a survey or diagnosis, a fixed price, careful work and proper paperwork. Call for a fixed-price quote.
- An office, shop or restaurant that is uncomfortable for staff and customers
- Not knowing which system, size or brand to choose
- A portable unit with a hose out of the window
What happens on the day
Anything involving refrigerant is handled by F-Gas qualified engineers, as the law requires, and electrical work is done by us as NICEIC approved contractors. So on the day, you don’t need a separate electrician for the electrical side. On site, it takes a day or more, depending on the number of rooms, the pipe routes and the access. Send us a few phone pictures and we can often price a straightforward job in West Hampstead before visiting.
- First the diagnosis: a survey of the rooms, the walls, the outside and the electrics.
- Next, a recommendation for each room and a fixed price.
- The treatment: units fitted, pipework and drain routed, and the electrics installed.
- Before it runs, the pipework is proved tight and put under vacuum.
- Finally, the clean bill of health: commissioning, the controls explained and your paperwork handed over.
Getting ready for the visit
- Let us know where the consumer unit is
- Keep pets out of the rooms we’re working in
- Move furniture away from the wall where we’ll be working
Ask for a quote
For air conditioning in West Hampstead, ring 07833 053749 or use the quote form. Let us know the type of property and what you need, and send a few photos if you can. We reply the same working day.
Related advice
Air conditioning for homes and businesses in West Hampstead
A new system normally needs a dedicated circuit from the fuse board. Adding a new circuit is notifiable building work under Part P unless it’s done by a registered competent person, and our NICEIC approval means we install and certify it ourselves. When someone in West Hampstead asks us for air con, the first questions are normally price and who will fit it. We publish typical prices and do the refrigerant work as an F-Gas certified company.
Many installs in West Hampstead can go ahead as permitted development, but listed buildings, conservation areas and flats need more care: we flag that at the survey.
Across London, and in West Hampstead too, a lot of air conditioning goes into flats and terraces rather than detached houses. That shapes the job: where the outdoor unit can go, how the pipework reaches it and who needs to agree first. In a flat, the lease and the freeholder usually come into it, so we write up the proposed positions for them to see.
Warranty on the equipment is the manufacturer’s own, on the manufacturer’s terms, and we explain those terms on your quote. Each brand sets its own conditions, so we go through them with you rather than leave you to find the small print.
- Where
- West Hampstead (NW3, NW6, NW2)
- Wider area
- Greater London
- Price
- A fixed price before work begins
- Costs
- From £1,200 + VAT
- Certified
- F-Gas certified, NICEIC approved
- Call
- 07833 053749
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
FAQs for West Hampstead
Is West Hampstead in your area for air conditioning?
Yes. West Hampstead is one of the places we cover. Get in touch with the details and we reply the same working day.
Is planning permission needed for air conditioning in West Hampstead?
There’s no single answer: the building and the outdoor unit position decide it. Central West Hampstead sits inside the Redington Frognall Conservation Area. An air-to-air system used for heating as well as cooling can be permitted development on a house if it meets the conditions, but a cooling-only unit is not covered, listed buildings need consent and conservation areas restrict outdoor units facing a road. Where needed, we check with Camden council, which is usually the planning authority for West Hampstead.
Which manufacturers do you install and repair?
The main ones, including Mitsubishi Electric, Daikin, Fujitsu, Panasonic, Toshiba, LG, Samsung, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Hitachi. For a new system, we suggest the make and model that suit the property and tell you why.
Do you work on commercial properties?
Yes. We work for homeowners, landlords, letting and managing agents, and businesses of every size in West Hampstead and across Greater London. Tell us who should receive the paperwork.
Can air conditioning heat my home as well?
Yes, most modern split systems run as heat pumps, so they heat as well as cool. The Energy Saving Trust notes that air-to-air heat pumps are sometimes referred to as air conditioning. We confirm the heating function of the model we quote.
Which type of air conditioning is best?
There’s no single best type. A split suits one room, a multi-split several, a ducted system hides the unit, and a cassette spreads air across larger rooms. We recommend one on the survey and explain why.
Can I do any of the installation myself?
The refrigerant side has to be done by a qualified engineer working for an F-Gas certified company. That’s a legal requirement, and it also matters for the manufacturer’s warranty. We’re happy to quote for the full job, supply to commissioning.
Also near West Hampstead
Also in West Hampstead
What an install looks like in West Hampstead
About 63% of homes in West Hampstead and the neighbourhoods around it were built before 1919, according to VOA council tax data, and about 82% of households live in flats, according to the 2021 Census. Older properties often mean solid walls and period details, so pipe runs are planned to stay neat and out of sight. For a flat, we look at balconies, flat roofs and rear walls for the outdoor unit, and the lease often needs checking first. In London, outdoor unit positions, building rules and access tend to need more planning than the install itself.
Close to Finchley Road & Frognal station? A small study or box room used for work can usually be cooled with a single indoor unit. Fenton House, about 0.5 miles north-east, is one of the historic houses nearby, and if your own home is listed, consent comes before any air conditioning is fixed to it.
West Hampstead is about 3 miles north-west of City of Westminster, in Greater London. From the centre of West Hampstead to the outskirts, we cover air conditioning, from a single room to a whole building. Our Greater London coverage runs to 764 places, and West Hampstead is one of them. You can also see our page for London, roughly 6 miles from West Hampstead.
The closest recent job we can point to from West Hampstead was on East Hill, Wandsworth (SW18), about 7 miles south: installing a Daikin wall-mounted unit in the open-plan living area. See the job
Mill Lane, Acol Road and Ajax Road and the roads off them are all inside our area. Jobs in NW3, NW6 and NW2 are looked at, quoted and booked the same way as anywhere else. Places around West Hampstead that are also on our list: Fortune Green (1 mile west), Hampstead (1 mile east), Greenhill (1 mile east), Childs Hill (1 mile north-west) and Vale of Health (1 mile north-east). Larger places within reach include London (6 miles south-east), City of Westminster (3 miles south-east), Marylebone (3 miles south-east) and Kensington (4 miles south).
What’s near West Hampstead
In West Hampstead, that means homes and buildings near South Hampstead High School, Holly Bush pub and Kilburn Grange Park, among other places. West Hampstead has its own railway station: Finchley Road & Frognal station. A little further out are Isokon Gallery (1.2 miles east) and New End Hospital (0.5 miles north-east). Not far away are Parliament Hill and Westbere Copse.
System by system
Offices, shops and commercial rooms
Bigger systems in buildings come with extra duties, such as a TM44 inspection by an accredited energy assessor at least every 5 years. We can arrange and prepare for it.
Ceiling cassettes
A cassette needs a void above the ceiling for the unit, pipework and drain, with a condensate pump where the drain can’t fall naturally. We check the ceiling void on the survey.
What air conditioning can’t fix
We will not sell you work that does not address the problem, so here are the limits:
- Stuffy rooms that need fresh air rather than cooling
- Damp or condensation caused by leaks or poor ventilation in the building (that needs the cause fixing)
- Heat loss through very poor insulation (a system will heat the room, but insulation is a separate job)
If you are not sure, just give us a ring on 07833 053749 or email us and we will give you a straight answer.
Where we work
- Wall-mounted split systems
- Ceiling cassettes
- Air-to-air heat pumps
- VRF systems
- Multi-split systems
- Ducted systems
Owner checks or an engineer?
Don’t move, re-route or disconnect units or pipework yourself. Disconnecting a system means dealing with refrigerant, which only a qualified engineer can do, and the electrical side needs a competent person. Ask us to quote for a move instead.
Owners can handle the everyday basics: keeping the outdoor unit clear, checking the mode and set temperature, and the routine cleaning in the manual. Anything inside the units, the electrics and the refrigerant is engineer’s work.
What a customer said
“Excellent service from start to finish. Two wall-mounted units installed in our home. Clean, tidy work: they protected all the floors and left no mess. The systems work brilliantly. Would highly recommend.”
Sarah M., East Grinstead