Aircon Installers Eldoraigne arranges free quotes for air conditioning across the suburb: installations, repairs, servicing, regas and maintenance, from single bedroom units in the older sections through to whole-house retrofits on the larger stands.
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Indicative ranges, supplied and fitted where relevant. For sanity-checking a quote, not a quotation.
| Job | Indicative range | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 9000 BTU supplied & installed | R9,500 – R15,000 | Bedroom or study |
| 12000 BTU supplied & installed | R11,000 – R17,500 | The usual size for a main bedroom here |
| 18000 BTU supplied & installed | R15,000 – R24,000 | Lounges and the older open-plan extensions |
| 24000 BTU supplied & installed | R19,000 – R32,000 | Enclosed patios and large living areas |
| Core drilling through double brick | R450 – R1,200 per hole | Slower on the older cavity walls |
| Extra pipe run beyond the standard 3 m | R350 – R650 per metre | Common on the bigger erven |
| Surface trunking, painted | R200 – R450 per metre | Where walls are not to be chased |
| New dedicated circuit and isolator | R1,800 – R5,500 | Frequent on 1970s and 1980s boards |
| Distribution board upgrade | R3,500 – R12,000 | Where there is no spare way left |
| Condensate pump | R1,800 – R3,500 | Where there is no gravity fall to outside |
| Installation labour only | R3,500 – R7,500 | Back-to-back, you supply the unit |
| Call-out and fault finding | R450 – R950 | Often credited if the repair proceeds |
| Capacitor replacement | R850 – R2,200 | Common cause of no cooling |
| Control board (PCB) | R2,500 – R7,500 | Often the replace-or-repair point |
| Standard service, per unit | R650 – R1,400 | Cheaper per unit on several units |
| Condenser coil clean | R650 – R1,500 | Worth doing yearly under mature trees |
| Leak repair, vacuum and regas | R2,500 – R4,500 | Includes finding the leak |
| Like-for-like replacement, 12000 BTU | R9,500 – R16,000 | Existing pipework reused |
Indicative ranges, not a quotation. Pipe length, condenser position and the electrical scope move the final number more than the unit does. In Eldoraigne the item that moves it most often is the board: on a house that has never had aircon, the circuit and the spare way can cost as much as the difference between two unit sizes.
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Compare Local QuotesWhat Drives Aircon Work Here
Almost every job is a retrofit. The housing stock here predates aircon being standard, so units are going into finished houses rather than into a plan. That means core drilling, a route for the pipework that does not run across a facade, and an electrical supply that has to be created rather than connected to.
Older distribution boards run out of ways. A board installed in the late seventies or eighties was never sized for three or four aircon circuits. On a second or third unit the honest answer is often a board upgrade first, and that belongs in the quote rather than appearing on the day.
Houses have been extended, and the sizing follows the extension. A lounge that was opened into a glazed patio is a far bigger load than the room on the original plan. Sizing off the old floor area is the most common way a unit here ends up running flat out and never satisfying.
Large stands mean long pipe runs. The condenser position that keeps noise off a bedroom window and off the neighbour is frequently nowhere near the indoor head. Copper is charged per metre, and once the run is long the fall for the condensate needs checking rather than assuming.
Mature gardens foul condensers. The established trees that make the suburb pleasant drop leaf and seed straight into outdoor coils. A condenser tucked into a shrub line loses capacity by its second summer, and it shows up as weak cooling rather than as an obvious fault.
Response Times and Getting a Contractor Out
Eldoraigne sits inside the main Centurion service area, so availability is rarely the constraint outside of the first hot weeks of October, when every contractor in Tshwane is booked. If you know you want a unit in for summer, quoting in August or early September is the difference between a week and a month.
If an installation needs electrical work, ask at quoting stage who does it and whether a certificate of compliance for the new circuit is included. Finding out afterwards that the aircon contractor expected you to arrange an electrician is where these jobs stall.
Also Covered Nearby
Wierda Park, Rooihuiskraal, Bakenkop, Amberfield, Louwlardia and Eldoglen. Quotes for the rest of the area are arranged from Aircon Installers Centurion.
Frequently Asked Questions
My house was built in the 1980s – can the wiring take an aircon?
Usually yes, but not off an existing plug circuit. An aircon wants its own way on the board, its own breaker and an isolator within sight of the outdoor unit. On the older boards here the limiting factor is spare ways rather than cable size, and once those are gone the board is replaced or a sub-board added. Ask for that to be priced up front.
Can a unit go in without chasing the walls?
Yes, and on a finished house it usually should. The pipework and drain run in surface trunking, which can be painted to the wall colour and is far less disruptive than opening plaster. Chasing only really makes sense during a renovation when the wall is coming apart anyway.
How far can the outdoor unit be from the indoor unit?
Most domestic splits are happy to somewhere between ten and fifteen metres, with the manufacturer setting the limit and the installer weighing in extra gas past the pre-charge. What matters more than the limit is that every extra metre is charged, and that a long run with the wrong fall needs a condensate pump.
I enclosed my patio – what size unit do I need?
More than the floor area suggests. Glass is the load, not square metres, and an enclosed patio is mostly glass with a roof above it. A room that would have been a 12000 BTU unit as a lounge can easily need 18000 or 24000 once it is glazed on two sides. Anyone sizing it without looking at the glazing and the orientation is guessing.
Do leaves from the garden really affect the unit?
They do, and it is the most common cause of a unit here slowly getting worse rather than breaking. The condenser rejects heat through a fine coil; pack that with leaf litter and seed and it cannot, so head pressure climbs and cooling drops off on exactly the hottest days. Clearance around the unit and a coil clean before summer deals with it.
Does an aircon installation need an electrical certificate?
A new circuit does. Adding a dedicated aircon way to the board is electrical work, and it should be signed off by a registered person on a certificate of compliance covering that installation. It matters for insurance more than for anything else – a claim after a fire on an uncertified circuit is an argument you do not want.
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