Air Conditioning Installation in Croydon

Croydon is the borough next door to ours. Kelvara is based in Wallington, which runs straight into Waddon and Purley, so when you look for air conditioning installers in Croydon you are looking at a local team rather than a company driving in from across London. That means surveys at a time that suits you, installation days that start on time, and aftercare from the engineers who fitted your system.

This page covers what home air conditioning in Croydon involves, what it costs, and what we look for across the borough, because a flat by East Croydon station, a hillside house in Kenley and a Victorian terrace in Addiscombe are three quite different jobs.

We only work on homes. Every domestic air conditioning system we fit in Croydon is one of three types:

• Wall-mounted split systems — one indoor unit and one outdoor unit, for a single bedroom, living room or home office. This is the most common air con installation we do.
• Multi-split air conditioning — two to five indoor units running from one outdoor unit, so you can cool several bedrooms without a row of condensers on the back wall.
• Concealed ducted systems — sometimes called invisible air conditioning, with the unit hidden in the loft or a ceiling void and only slim grilles showing in the room.

We install Daikin, Mitsubishi Electric, Panasonic, LG and Samsung, and recommend whichever suits the room. If you are choosing between the two best-known names, our Mitsubishi vs Daikin guide explains what actually differs. Every system we install also works as an air-to-air heat pump, so the same unit heats the room efficiently in winter.

After installation we look after the system too, with air conditioning servicing from around £90 a unit and air conditioning repair on all the major brands, including systems another company fitted. Our engineers are F-Gas qualified, which anyone handling refrigerant legally needs. It is worth checking for any installer you are considering, not only us.

Bedrooms. Air conditioning for bedrooms is the most common request, especially in top-floor rooms that hold the day's heat. Modern indoor units run quietly enough to sleep next to.

Loft conversions. Rooms under the roof get hotter than anywhere else in the house. Loft conversion air conditioning usually means a wall-mounted unit with a short pipe run to an outdoor unit on a flat roof or rear wall.

Garden offices. A garden room or garden office needs heating in winter and cooling in summer. One split system does both, and it is cheaper to run than an electric heater.

Conservatories and extensions. Glass roofs make these rooms unusable on hot days. Conservatory air conditioning needs a larger unit than the floor area suggests, which the survey works out properly.

Croydon town centre, East and South Croydon

Around East Croydon station and the town centre, much of the newer housing is flats in purpose-built blocks, alongside conversions of older houses. For air conditioning in a flat, the two questions that decide everything are where the outdoor unit can go and whether the managing agent will allow it. A balcony, flat roof or rear wall can all work. We bring the details the managing agent needs to the survey, so you aren't left to work it out yourself.

Purley, Kenley, Coulsdon and Sanderstead

The south of the borough is mostly detached and semi-detached houses, many on sloping plots with good-sized gardens. That usually makes installation straightforward: the outdoor unit can sit at ground level well away from the neighbours, and there is room to run a multi-split for several bedrooms. On steeper plots we plan the pipe route at the survey so it stays neat and short.

Addiscombe, Shirley and Selsdon

Addiscombe has many Victorian and Edwardian terraces, while Shirley and Selsdon are largely interwar and post-war semis. Solid-walled period houses take longer to core-drill and owners usually want the pipework hidden, both of which we price honestly from the survey. The 1930s semis are close to ideal for a split system.

Thornton Heath, Norbury and South Norwood

The north of the borough is largely Victorian and Edwardian terraces on narrow plots. The thing to manage here is noise next to a neighbour, so we position the outdoor unit to stay within the permitted development noise limit at the boundary and choose a quiet outdoor unit where the garden is tight.

Waddon and the Wallington border

This is the edge of our home patch. See air conditioning in Wallington and air conditioning in Sutton for the neighbouring areas.

Croydon prices are the same as everywhere else we work. A single-room split system is typically £1,800 to £2,600 supplied and fitted, a two-room multi-split £3,500 to £5,000, and a three-room multi-split £4,800 to £6,500. The air conditioning installation cost guide lists every system size and the extras that can sit outside a headline price.

What moves the price is the house, not the postcode: the distance between the indoor and outdoor units, whether the wall needs scaffolding, whether your consumer unit has room for a new circuit, and how much pipework you want hidden. We check all of that at the free survey, so the price you sign is the price you pay.

For most houses in the borough, the outdoor unit counts as permitted development as long as it meets the conditions on size, siting and noise at the boundary. The Planning Portal's guidance on air conditioning for your home sets those conditions out. Flats do not have the same rights, and houses in Croydon's conservation areas may need consent if the unit would be visible from the street. We tell you which applies at the survey, before anything is ordered.

Faster surveys and installs. We aren't fitting your survey around a long drive, so it is usually easy to find a slot that suits you, including early mornings.

Aftercare close to home. If a system we fitted stops cooling in July, the people who installed it are 15 minutes away and know exactly what is on your wall.

One fixed written price. Equipment, labour, electrical work, commissioning and making good, in one figure agreed before we start.