Heating & cooling in Cardinia Lakes.

The early-2000s replacement wave.

Most Cardinia Lakes homes went up in the early 2000s with original gas ducted heating and, often, a modest add-on cooler. Twenty years on, those furnaces are reaching end of life simultaneously across the estate — they won’t light, they short-cycle, or the gas bill has crept up. We do a lot of straight ducted heating replacements here, swapping tired 3-star furnaces for high-efficiency 6-star units, and changing ageing gas ducted over to reverse-cycle under the Victorian Energy Upgrades (VEU) rebate.

Adding proper cooling to existing ducts.

A huge share of Cardinia Lakes jobs are owners who have decent gas ducted heating but no real summer cooling. Where the existing ductwork is sound, we add refrigerated cooling onto the same outlets — far cheaper than starting over. For a single hot room the ducts never reach, a split system in the living area or master is often the smarter spend.

Carbon-monoxide safety on ageing furnaces.

Gas ducted heaters of Cardinia Lakes’ age can develop cracked heat exchangers that leak odourless carbon monoxide into the air your family breathes. We CO-test every gas service and any unit over 10 years old to AS/NZS 5601 safety, and always before reusing existing ductwork on a replacement. If you smell combustion, see soot, or get headaches when the heater runs, switch it off and call us.

Typical Cardinia Lakes jobs.

• Gas ducted furnace replacement, 6-star high-efficiency, reusing ducts ($6,500–$8,500)
• Add-on refrigerated cooling onto existing ducted heating ($7,000–$13,000)
• Gas-to-reverse-cycle ducted changeover with VEU rebate
• Living-room or master-bedroom split system ($1,800–$3,500)
• Annual service + carbon-monoxide test on an ageing gas heater