Air conditioning for a two-bedroom terrace house in a conservation area

The owners wished to install air conditioning in two hot top-floor bedrooms of a two-bedroom terrace house. Due to planning restrictions, they could not fit a traditional external condenser box, and the same rules also prevented them from drilling holes in the building’s external walls. This mid-nineteenth-century terrace house is in the Wandsworth Common Conservation Area, known as “Between the Commons.”

Our energy-efficient DC inverter water-cooled internal condenser air conditioning system was the best solution to air condition these bedrooms. This system allows everything to be retained within the property.

Air conditioning for a two-bedroom terrace house using a fully internal system

The water-cooled condenser, installed in the loft area next to the water tank, serviced an energy-efficient, quiet DC inverter concealed in a ducted unit. This unit also supplied cool air to the two top-floor bedrooms in the loft. This solution ensured a sustainable, energy-efficient AC that aligned with our environmental responsibilities.

Our technical team connected the refrigerant pipework between the condenser and the ducted unit within the loft space at a high level, with all items suspended from the roof joists. Each room divided the cold supply air via a custom-made plenum serving air grilles. Disruption to the existing decor was kept to a minimum, and the whole system was concealed.

It’s important to note that installing our entirely internal air conditioning systems in this apartment did not require any planning permission. This streamlined the entire process for the owners, making it even more straightforward.

For this project, we installed:
1 x 3.5kw (12,000 Btu) water-cooled DC Inverter condenser

This served:
1 x 3.5kw (12,000 Btu) DC Inverter cooling concealed ducted unit