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
Double Bay is apartments, and a lot of them sit empty for months at a time. A system that is switched off is not resting, it is incubating. We open it up, clear what has grown inside, sanitise the coil and drain, and hand it back ready to run.
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Why Double Bay is different
The 2021 Census counted 2,622 private dwellings in Double Bay but only 2,130 of them occupied on census night. Close to nineteen per cent were empty. That is the highest share of any suburb we work in, and it drives most of what we find inside these units.
People assume a system that is switched off cannot get dirty. The opposite is true. When an air conditioner runs, the fan moves air across the coil and dries it between cycles. When it is switched off for a season, whatever moisture was left on the evaporator when it last ran simply sits there in a dark, enclosed, unventilated box at Sydney summer temperatures. Those are close to ideal growing conditions.
Double Bay sits in a sheltered harbour pocket with very little through-breeze at street level, and the apartments are largely closed up when the owners are away. Humidity inside a shut apartment stays high. The unit is not circulating, the windows are not open, and the drain pan still holds water from the last time the system ran.
The result is a pattern we see here more than anywhere else: a unit that looks clean from the outside, has reasonable filters, and produces a strong musty smell within thirty seconds of being switched on after a long break. The growth is on the back face of the evaporator and along the barrel fan, where you cannot see it and a filter wash will never reach it.
Just over a third of Double Bay households own their home outright, at 33.8 per cent. Outright ownership tends to mean the same system stays in place for a long time, and a long-held system in an apartment that sits idle is exactly the one where a first proper clean makes the most obvious difference.
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A proper strip-down clean, not a spray and go.
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Access in Double Bay
Flats and apartments make up 76.6 per cent of occupied dwellings in Double Bay. Separate houses are 13.4 per cent. Nearly every job here is an apartment job.
In the blocks along New South Head Road, Bay Street and Manning Road the condenser is usually on the balcony, in a recessed service cupboard off it, or on a common rooftop. Balcony and cupboard units we handle on our own. Rooftop units need building manager access, which we arrange directly if you give us the contact.
Several of the older Double Bay blocks have no individual condensers at all, running instead off central plant with a fan-coil unit in each apartment. Those still need the filter, coil, pan and drain cleaned on your side, and we will tell you clearly where your responsibility ends and the building plant begins.
If you are away and want the clean done before you return, we can work with a concierge, a building manager, a property manager or a neighbour holding keys. We send a written report with photographs so you can see what was done without having been there.
The houses and garden flats on the Darling Point side and up toward Ocean Avenue are standard side-passage or courtyard work. Gate unlocked, bins moved, and we are set.
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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
Double Bay is a small, dense harbourside suburb in Woollahra Council. The 2021 Census recorded 4,709 residents at a median age of 39, living at an average of 2.1 people per household.
Flats and apartments account for 76.6 per cent of occupied private dwellings and separate houses only 13.4 per cent, which makes Double Bay one of the most apartment-dominated suburbs in the Eastern Suburbs.
The unoccupied rate is the striking figure. The Census counted 2,622 dwellings against 2,130 occupied, meaning close to nineteen per cent were empty on census night, well above the Sydney average.
Around a third of households own their home outright. The suburb runs from the harbour at Double Bay and Seven Shillings Beach back up to Edgecliff, with Darling Point and Bellevue Hill on its borders.
Common questions
A split system deep clean starts at $249 + GST per unit, with 20 per cent off the second unit in the same visit. Ducted and fan-coil systems start at $350 + GST and are quoted per apartment. There is no call-out fee and no charge for the quote.
More than if it had been running. An idle unit keeps whatever moisture was on the coil when it last ran, in the dark, with no airflow. That is why a system switched on after a long break usually smells worse than one used every week.
Yes. We can work with your building manager, concierge, property manager or a neighbour holding keys, and we send a written report with photographs so you can see exactly what was done.
No. Cleaning the unit that serves your own lot is maintenance, not an alteration. If the condenser sits on a common rooftop we contact the building manager to arrange access.
It removes the cause, which is growth on the evaporator coil and barrel fan. The smell stays away as long as the unit is used and the drain stays clear. If the apartment sits closed up for another long stretch, an annual clean keeps it in check.
Once a year for a system in regular use. If the apartment is unoccupied for long periods, book the clean before you come back rather than on a fixed date, so the unit is ready when you are.
Yes. Fan-coil systems have a filter, a coil and a drain pan inside your apartment and all three need cleaning. We give you a written note on anything that belongs to the building plant.
Yes, along with Bellevue Hill, Point Piper and the streets running down to the harbour. There is no travel surcharge anywhere in the area.
Service area
Seven days a week, 7:00 to 19:00, with no travel surcharge.
We also deep clean air conditioners in Bondi Junction, Woollahra, Rose Bay, Vaucluse and Paddington. · Eastern Suburbs
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