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23Suburbs in Newcastle
Air conditioning in Mayfield from a workshop in the suburb: split and ducted installs, servicing and repairs for hill houses, Lysaght's homes and shops.
Air conditioning in Lambton, Newcastle: reverse cycle splits and ducted for the old colliery town's houses, the drive-in estate and Elder Street.
Air conditioning in Hamilton, Newcastle: splits for small-lot Victorian and Federation houses, and cool rooms for the Beaumont Street restaurants.
Air conditioning in Wallsend, where summer runs hotter than the coast: split and ducted installs, servicing and repairs for homes and Nelson Street shops.
Also around Newcastle: Waratah 2298, Merewether 2291, Adamstown 2289, Kotara 2289, Stockton 2295. Not listed? Ring anyway.
23Working in Newcastle
Newcastle is one city with two summers: the coast gets a stiff afternoon sea breeze, and nine kilometres away at Callaghan the afternoons run about four degrees hotter with half the wind.
The Bureau of Meteorology has kept records at Nobbys since 1862, and its January afternoons average 25.6°C, with a 3pm wind of 33.2 km/h and humidity of 72%. Its Newcastle University station at Callaghan, about 9 km from Nobbys, recorded from 1998 until it closed in 2021. There, January afternoons averaged 29.5°C, the 3pm wind just 16.2 km/h and the humidity 57%. The housing follows the coal. Hamilton grew around a pit shaft finished in 1849, the Wallsend colliery opened in 1861 and Lambton's in 1863, and each became its own municipality in the 1870s. Mayfield had grand houses on its hill by the 1880s, then BHP's steelworks beside it from 1915 to 1999. Hamilton's older streets are mostly small lots.
In the suburbs nearest the water, like Stockton, Merewether and the older streets close to the city centre, the sea breeze does a lot of the work on a summer afternoon. Systems here can often be a size smaller than further west, because the room never gets as hot to begin with. The trade-off is salt: the outdoor unit goes on the sheltered side of the house, and a yearly fresh-water wash keeps the coil and fixings from rusting early.
Mayfield, Lambton and Hamilton were built before anyone pictured air conditioning. Expect solid walls, back extensions that heat up fast and switchboards changed more than once. We check the switchboard on the quote visit. Our licence covers connecting the unit; a new circuit goes to a licensed electrician we bring in. Mayfield is also where our workshop is, so it and the suburbs around it get our quickest visits.
From Lambton out through Jesmond and Wallsend, the sea breeze fades and summer afternoons run several degrees warmer. West-facing bedrooms here take the worst of it, and a single big unit in the hallway rarely cools them at night. A split in each hot room, or zoned ducted where the roof space allows, is the usual answer. Mayfield, Lambton, Hamilton and Wallsend each have a page of their own below, with the streets, the history and the questions we hear there.
23Questions
Because the afternoon is hotter out there. January afternoons averaged 29.5°C at the Bureau's Callaghan station against 25.6°C at Nobbys, and the sea breeze was half as strong. The same living room in Wallsend needs more cooling than it would in Merewether, so we size each room on site with the suburb in mind.
On the side of the house sheltered from the onshore wind, if you can spare it. Salt spray settles on the coil and the fixings, and a sheltered wall slows the corrosion. Near the ocean or the harbour we can also fit a model with a factory-coated coil.
In most cases, yes. The outdoor unit and pipes need the most thought. City of Newcastle has several heritage conservation areas, so check with council what applies to your property first. We'll give you the proposed unit position and pipe route in writing to take to them.
Almost always. On a narrow lot it can go on a high wall bracket, a rear extension roof, or down a side path wide enough to service it. A quiet model, set back from any bedroom next door, avoids most complaints.
We think so. July nights average 8.5°C at Nobbys and 7.3°C at Callaghan, cold enough to want heat for a few months. A reverse cycle system heats with the same indoor and outdoor unit that cools in summer, so there's no second appliance to buy or service.
A single back-to-back split, where the indoor and outdoor units sit either side of one wall, is usually done in half a day. A longer pipe run, a second storey or several units takes most of a day, sometimes two. Ducted takes two to three days.
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