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Wallsend is in Newcastle's western suburbs, about 11 km from the city centre and a straightforward run out from our Mayfield workshop. Our vans cover Wallsend and Plattsburg and the suburbs around them, from Elermore Vale to Maryland, for new installs, servicing and breakdowns. Quoting a new system is free.

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Brick home that cooks in the afternoon sun. They sized the lounge unit off the west windows, not just the floor area, and it keeps up on the worst days.

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23Working in Wallsend

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On a January afternoon the Bureau's station just down the road at Callaghan records half the wind of Nobbys and about four degrees more heat, and every Wallsend room is sized with that in mind.

Wallsend began as two coal towns, Wallsend and Plattsburg, linked by Nelson Street. Alexander Brown named it in the 1850s after a coal mining town in the north of England, and the Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Company's colliery opened in January 1861. Wallsend became a municipality of its own in 1874, and the two towns had joined up again by 1915. The 2021 census counted 13,244 people. Ironbark Creek runs through the town centre in a concrete channel, and in the storm of 8 June 2007 it overflowed and flooded homes and businesses in the middle of town. Hunter Water is set to widen 660 metres of that channel, with construction expected to start in 2027. The Bureau's Newcastle University station at Callaghan, a few kilometres east, averaged 29.5°C on January afternoons between 1998 and 2020, against 25.6°C at Nobbys, with a 3pm wind of 16.2 km/h to Nobbys' 33.2.

23What we do here

Air conditioning work around Wallsend

  • Older homes in Wallsend and Plattsburg

    Older houses close to the town centre, where a living room under a metal roof can soak up the afternoon sun. A reverse cycle split in the living room is the common first job, with smaller units in the bedrooms that face west.

    Split Systems
  • Shops and offices along Nelson Street

    Commercial splits and ducted for the town centre's shopfronts, surgeries and offices. Because the creek flooded the town centre in 2007, we put the outdoor units and their isolators up high on the building where we can.

    Ducted Air Conditioning
  • Family homes toward Elermore Vale and Maryland

    Where the roof space is big enough, zoned ducted suits a family spread across several bedrooms. We zone the bedrooms apart from the living areas so you only cool the rooms in use.

    Ducted Air Conditioning

23Questions

Wallsend: common questions

Why is our Wallsend house so much hotter than our friends' place near the beach?

Distance from the ocean. The Bureau's station at Callaghan, a few kilometres from Wallsend, averaged 29.5°C on January afternoons, almost four degrees above Nobbys, and the afternoon wind there was half as strong. The sea breeze that cools the beach suburbs has mostly faded before it gets this far west, so a Wallsend room needs more cooling for its size.

Our shop on Nelson Street went under in 2007. Where should the outdoor unit go now?

As high as the building allows. On a town centre shop we usually mount the outdoor unit on the roof or on a bracket well up the back wall, and keep the isolator switch up there with it. That keeps the compressor out of floodwater. A new circuit up to the roof is a job for a licensed electrician, and we organise one.

Wallsend summers feel dry and hot. Does that change which system we should buy?

It shifts the sizing more than the brand. Callaghan's 3pm humidity in January averaged 57%, against 72% at Nobbys, so out here the load is mostly heat, with less moisture to pull from the air. We size for the hottest rooms on the hottest afternoons, and an inverter unit then ramps down quietly once the house has cooled.

Do you cover Elermore Vale, Maryland, Jesmond and Fletcher?

Yes. They're all part of our regular western run, along with Wallsend itself, Birmingham Gardens, Edgeworth and Minmi. New installs, servicing and breakdown repairs all reach that far. We fit quote visits around other jobs nearby, so ring and we'll tell you the earliest day a technician can be with you.

Wallsend afternoons run hotter than the coast. Do our west-facing bedrooms each need a unit?

For bedrooms, a few small ones. A big unit in the hallway won't push enough cool air through closed bedroom doors at night. A small split in each west-facing room, or zoned ducted if the roof space allows, keeps each one comfortable. Blinds or awnings on those windows help either way.

We live in Plattsburg. Is that part of your Wallsend area?

Yes. Plattsburg and Wallsend started out as two separate mining towns joined by Nelson Street, and they had grown back together by 1915. For us it is one area on the same run, with the same response to a breakdown and the same free quotes for new systems. Ring, and we'll give you the likely arrival time on the phone.

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Serving Wallsend, Plattsburg, Elermore Vale, Maryland, Jesmond, Birmingham Gardens, Fletcher, Edgeworth and Minmi.

Breakdown call-out: $140 in business hours, $220 after hours and on weekends, including the first half hour. Install quotes are free.

Call (02) 5550 2240