Air Conditioning
Service & Repairs
in Lane Cove NSW
Artarmon Air Conditioning services, repairs and deep cleans air conditioning across Lane Cove, from the apartments around the village to the family homes on the leafy streets running down to the river. Lane Cove is a few minutes from our Artarmon base on Sydney's Lower North Shore.
We work on split systems, multi-split systems, ducted, package units and VRV and VRF in houses, townhouses, apartment blocks and the shops and offices around Longueville Road.
If the system has stopped, is leaking water or is showing an error code, you get a fixed price initial diagnosis and the fault explained in plain English before any repair is quoted.
Lane Cove repair calls follow the housing, and most of them fall into a handful of patterns.
We diagnose and repair faults on every major brand. The ones we see most here:
Water through a ceiling or down a wall in an apartment, usually a blocked condensate drain running to the P-trap under a sink.
Splits and multi-heads near the village stopping on an error code, often a communication fault between the indoor and outdoor units, or a failed sensor.
Older ducted systems in family homes losing a zone, rumbling at start-up or dripping from the roof space.
Outdoor units under the street trees packed with leaf litter, so the system struggles on the hottest days.
A system that trips the switchboard, which is an electrical fault to test rather than keep resetting.
Every breakdown call starts with a fixed price initial diagnosis, then a fixed price to rectify the fault. Nothing goes ahead until you approve it.
Routine aircon servicing comes in four levels, from a seasonal check through to a full deep clean of the indoor and outdoor units.
Every level includes cleaning the filters and checking the condensate drain. What a Lane Cove system needs on top of that usually depends on where it lives:
Apartment splits that run most nights through summer: the coil and drain tray, before mould gets established.
Outdoor units under street trees or beside bushland: the condenser coil cleared of leaf litter and pollen, and the space around it opened up.
Ducted systems in established homes: the return air filter, the zone motors and the drain in the roof space.
Older multi-heads: the shared outdoor unit, because one fault there takes every room offline at once.
Split, multi-split, ducted, floor console and VRV/VRF systems all use the same four levels, from $199 including GST for an Essential visit on a single split system, with everything else quoted on enquiry.
A musty smell when the air conditioner starts is usually mould on the indoor coil and fan barrel, sitting behind the filters where cleaning them cannot reach.
Our aircon deep cleaning strips the indoor unit down, with the electrics and motors out before any water is used, so the coil, fan barrel and drain tray are cleaned properly rather than wiped over.
It is worth booking where there is:
A musty or sour smell at start-up
Black specks on the louvres or the wall below the unit
A bedroom split that runs most nights through summer
A system that has gone a few years without a service
If there is no smell and no visible mould, a standard service is usually enough, and we will tell you which one your system needs.
Split systems are the standard fit in Lane Cove's apartments and townhouses, and the usual answer in houses for the rooms the ducting never reached.
In apartment blocks the outdoor units often sit on common property. Servicing or repairing them needs no approval, but moving or replacing one generally needs the owners corporation's agreement, so check before you ask for a quote. Our air conditioner rules guide covers strata and noise.
We service and repair every major brand, including:
Daikin
Mitsubishi Electric
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Fujitsu
Panasonic
Samsung
LG
ActronAir
TCL
Hisense
Temperzone
Regular split system servicing picks up most faults while they are still cheap to fix.
A lot of the ducted systems in Lane Cove's established homes have been running for twenty years or more, and at that age the faults tend to arrive in a predictable order.
What we find, roughly in the order it happens:
A zone motor failing, so one room stops getting air
Indoor fan bearings starting to rumble, loudest at start-up
The condensate drain blocking in the roof space
Return air filters loaded with dust and pollen
Flexible duct crushed or knocked off a collar
Capacitors failing on the outdoor unit
Zone controllers losing communication
Rooms added in a renovation that the system was never sized for
Eventually, a failed circuit board
We inspect the roof space as part of the diagnosis rather than working from the controller alone. If a system has reached the point where replacement is the better spend, we tell you before you spend anything on a repair.
Renovating, or finally replacing an old system? Air conditioning has to be decommissioned before it comes out, because the refrigerant inside it cannot legally be released.
We recover the refrigerant on site, disconnect the equipment safely and send the metal to recycling, with a written record of the refrigerant recovered.
Refrigerant is handled in accordance with the Refrigerant Handling Code of Practice 2025, AS/NZS 5149 and the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989.
Local Aircon Service in Lane Cove
Lane Cove covers more ground than the village, and we work across all of it.
Each part has its own air conditioning story:
Lane Cove North, between Mowbray Road and Epping Road: brick walk-ups on the main roads and houses behind them, with a lot of the equipment now near the end of its life. Outdoor units on the main road frontages film over with road dust faster than those a street back.
Lane Cove West: post-war houses on the Burns Bay side, and the business park, where package units, cassettes and bulkheads run through business hours all year.
Longueville, Northwood, Riverview and Linley Point: large houses on steep blocks running down to the river, with long duct runs and outdoor units reached by stairs or narrow side paths.
The village and the streets around it: apartments above shops, newer apartment buildings and established family homes under big street trees.
If the outdoor unit is hard to reach, mention it when you book so the visit is planned for it.
Why Choose Artarmon Air Conditioning?
Based a few minutes from Lane Cove, in Artarmon
NSW contractor licence 394793C
Refrigerant Trading Authorisation AU60391
Homes, apartments and light commercial sites
A fixed price initial diagnosis on every breakdown
Faults explained in plain English, with a fixed price to fix them
Aircon repairs, maintenance and deep cleaning
Workmanship guaranteed for five years
Highly rated by local customers
Aircon Service Near Lane Cove
We also service the suburbs around Lane Cove on the Lower North Shore, including:
Lane Cove North, Lane Cove West, Longueville, Riverview, Northwood, Linley Point, Greenwich, St Leonards, Artarmon and Chatswood
If you are close by and not sure whether we cover your street, call and we will confirm.