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Writer's pictureKiera Peterson

An Installation Guide of Ducted Gas Heating and Air Conditioning System

Updated: Dec 12



Houses and offices need efficient heating and cooling systems to be comfortable for living. Turning your place into a perfect heating and cooling machine is the perfect weather-defying comfort needed in today’s rapidly changing climates. Ducted heating and cooling is a project that helps you achieve that level of comfort but it needs a lot of investment of money and thus one should do proper research before deciding to get one installed. Before you start to decide to go with ducted gas heating or cooling, compare the consumption, maintenance, and installation costings with other systems to make sure that you don’t incur a loss. Call ducted gas heating and air conditioning services providers to give you a clear idea about this and run a check on your home’s energy efficiency and optimize it if needed. Also, gather information on home insulation and draught proofing to make sure your house is not prone to the exterior atmosphere.


After you are sure you want a central ducted system for your building, decide upon which model you may require. Depending upon the climate of the city or town you live in, you may need a cooling-only model a heating-only model or both integrated in one.


Ducted Air Conditioning System depends on a Wide Range of Parameters:

  1. The floor plan of your home: number of floors and the room dimensions.

  2. The directions in which the rooms face.

  3. The size, position, and orientation of the windows

  4. The level of insulation of the building

  5. The usage and purpose of the area

  6. The average amount of people in the building at any time

  7. The ceiling cavity space

All these factors define the size and design of the ducted air conditioner or the heater. But all this can be too complicated. It’s better to get an expert ducted gas heating and air conditioning services provider to help you out with the designing part.


The ducted gas air conditioners work on the heat pump cycle. They are also known as reverse-cycle air conditioners. It is good to know the basic working of the ducted heating and air conditioning system. This would give you a better idea of what to look for in the features and also you would understand the specifications and the corresponding benefits clearly when the ducted heating and air conditioning services providers enlist them along with the design details.


→ A fan draws hot air from the building over a cold liquid, known as refrigerant and heat is then absorbed from the air which in turn cools it. The air is then supplied back into the building. The reverse process takes place in the heaters.


→ The refrigerant is then warmed from the hot air and is evaporated and flowed into a compressor, which creates a high-pressure, high-temperature gas.


→ That high-temperature gas is pumped through a heat exchanger which is placed outside the building, which allows heat to escape and the refrigerant is thus cooled and liquefied again.


→ The refrigerant is made to flow through an expansion device to lower its pressure and to cool it further. It is now ready to absorb heat again.


→ The ducted air conditioners can reverse this process and thus be used for both cooling and heating.


Now that you have a clear view of the process and have decided on the size and the design, you can focus on the various features that are to be considered. The ducted gas heating and air conditioning services providers may be able to offer a range of options, depending on the design and requirements of your building:

  1. Vents

  2. Controls

  3. Sensors

  4. Division of zones

With these features, you can set different climate levels in each area and also adjust the cooling or heating according to the requirement.


With all this in consideration, ask the required questions to your ducted gas heating and air conditioning services providers and get a clear idea of what you are paying for.

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