Split system deep clean
Full strip-down of the indoor head, chemical clean of the fan barrel and coil, drain flush and outdoor condenser service. From $249 + GST per unit.
Sydney, NSW
Sydney, NSW
Four streets from open surf, your outdoor coil collects salt the factory coating slows but does not stop, and your indoor unit holds humidity that never fully dries. We strip both back, treat the mould, flush the drain and put the unit back working the way it did.
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We service every major brand
Why Bondi is different
Bondi sits directly on open surf. Every onshore breeze carries a fine salt aerosol inland, and the first part of your air conditioner to meet it is the outdoor unit, with its aluminium fin coil exposed to the weather.
Manufacturers design for this. Daikin Australia states that all of its outdoor coils carry an anti-corrosion treatment it calls “Blue Fin”, which it says gives greater resistance to salt damage and atmospheric corrosion caused by such elements as sea spray and rain.
That second half is the part most Bondi owners never hear. A coating slows corrosion; it does not stop salt building up on the fins. Salt deposits hold moisture against the aluminium, trap dust, and gradually close the gaps the coil needs in order to shed heat. The compressor then runs longer and hotter to reach the same number on the wall controller.
Real before and after results
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A proper strip-down clean, not a spray and go.
Warning signs to watch for
Apartments and balconies
Of Bondi’s 5,356 private dwellings, 3,569 are flats or apartments and only 294 are separate houses. The typical Bondi installation is a wall-mounted split with the condenser on a balcony, in a light well, or bracketed to a common wall.
The NSW exempt development rules for air conditioning specifically allow a unit to be installed on the floor of a balcony in an apartment building, which is why so many Bondi condensers end up there. That position has four consequences:
About four in five Bondi homes are apartments, so most units we clean sit in a strata scheme. The indoor head and the condenser serving your lot are almost always your responsibility rather than the building’s. Where the condenser is on a common wall or in a shared light well, tell us when you book and we will arrange access with the strata or building manager.
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After a professional clean
Our services
Full strip-down of the indoor head, chemical clean of the fan barrel and coil, drain flush and outdoor condenser service. From $249 + GST per unit.
The coil behind the filters is where airflow is lost. Cleaned, treated and rinsed through, not wiped over.
Treatment through the barrel, coil and housing to deal with the mould causing the musty smell.
Filters removed, washed and refitted, or replaced where they are past saving.
Coil fins washed down, base cleared and clearances checked so the unit can shed heat properly.
Return air filter, coil and accessible duct runs for ducted systems. From $350 + GST.
Inside your unit
Transparent pricing
No call-out fee and no charge for the quote. The same price in every suburb we service.
How it works
Tell us the brand and how many units you have, or send a photo. We come back with a fixed price and a time, seven days a week.
Drop sheets and a containment bag go under the unit before anything comes off the wall.
Cover, filters and fan barrel come off. The barrel, coil and housing are chemically cleaned and rinsed, and the drain line is flushed.
The unit goes back together, gets a sanitising treatment, and we run it and check airflow and drainage in front of you.
About the suburb
Bondi covers the ridge and gullies behind the beach, in the Waverley local government area. The 2021 Census counted 10,411 residents in 5,356 private dwellings, at an average of 2.1 people per household.
It is a suburb of small households in apartment buildings, many of them interwar and postwar blocks that were retrofitted with split systems long after they were built. That retrofit history is why so many Bondi condensers sit in awkward places — on balconies, in light wells, on the side of a fire stair.
It also means a great many units are now past ten years old and have never had the coil cleaned. We work across Bondi, Bondi Beach and North Bondi most weeks of the summer.
Common questions
It changes what accumulates rather than the interval itself. Salt holds moisture on the aluminium fins and binds dust into a crust that blocks airflow, so a Bondi condenser tends to be noticeably more loaded than an inland one of the same age. If yours is within a few hundred metres of the beach and has never been cleaned, expect the coil to be the worst part of the job.
Yes, and that is most of what we do in Bondi. We work on balconies regularly and carry containment so nothing runs off onto the balcony below. If the unit is bracketed to a common wall or sits in a shared light well, let us know when you book so access can be arranged with the building or strata manager first.
Yes. Most older Bondi blocks have no manager on site. As long as you can let us into your lot and to the condenser, we do not need anyone else present.
A single split system takes about an hour and a half to two hours including the outdoor unit. Two units in the same apartment take around three hours. Ducted takes longer and is quoted per property.
Usually yes. Surface corrosion at the fin edges is common near the beach and does not by itself stop a coil working. Cleaning the salt and grit out of it will recover airflow and reduce how hard the compressor works. If the corrosion has gone far enough to be structural we will tell you straight, because at that point you are better off putting the money towards a replacement condenser.
In almost every case, yes, provided the drain line is dealt with at the same time. The smell comes from mould on the fan barrel and from water sitting in the tray under a blocked drain. A clean that treats the barrel but leaves the drain blocked will smell again within a week or two, which is why the flush is part of every job.
Someone needs to let us in and show us the units. After that you are welcome to leave us to it, though most people stay because they want to see what comes out of the barrel.
For a unit in regular use near the beach, once a year is a sensible baseline, and every two years is the longest we would leave it. Units that run all summer in a rental or a holiday let, or that sit in a salt-exposed position, are better on an annual clean.
Service area
Seven days a week, 7:00 to 19:00, with no travel surcharge.
We also deep clean air conditioners in Bondi Junction, Rose Bay, Vaucluse, Randwick and Coogee. · Eastern Suburbs
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