Reverse Cycle Air Conditioning

What is Reverse Cycle Air Conditioning?

A reverse cycle air conditioner is a versatile climate control solution that offers cooling and heating functionality to provide year-round comfort. They can take many forms including:

• split systems
• ducted air conditioners
• window/box air conditioners
• cassette air conditioners

Reverse cycle air conditioning uses a refrigeration cycle that will either heat or cool your home depending on the season.

How Does It Work?

To cool your home in summer, the air conditioner draws warm air from inside your house and releases it outdoors to lower the indoor room temperature. Come winter when you're looking to heat your home, it reverses the process, drawing in heat from the outdoor air (even in cooler weather) and transferring it indoors.

The reverse cycle process relies on refrigerant gas and a compressor to facilitate the transfer of heat. Whether you have a split system air conditioner, a window unit or ducted air conditioning, the process is effectively the same. Reverse cycle units are energy-efficient and provide year-round comfort with both heating and cooling functions.

Benefits of Reverse Cycle Air Conditioners

Reverse cycle air conditioning offers Australian homeowners a wealth of advantages. They include:

• Energy efficiency: Reverse cycle air conditioners are a great way to reduce your energy usage and, as a result, cut down your energy bills. Instead of using separate appliances to heat and cool your home, you can do it all from the one convenient unit.
• Reduced greenhouse gas emissions: Their energy efficiency and eco-friendly operation lead to vastly lower greenhouse gas emissions, promoting a healthier planet.
• Releasing heat: These units are great at capturing ambient warmth and transferring it in and out of the house. It ensures the system doesn't waste energy generating heat from scratch.
• Ducted and split system options: Designed for versatility, reverse cycle air conditioners come available as ducted or split system models. A split system air conditioner gives you greater efficiency and more control over the temperature in a single room or smaller spaces. Ducted systems, on the other hand, can provide cold or heated air to multiple rooms at once.

Given these remarkable benefits, investing in reverse cycle air conditioning is a forward-thinking choice for home comfort, environmental responsibility, and cost savings.

Reverse Cycle Air Conditioner Service

Want to maintain your cooling and heating requirements throughout the year? We recommend that you have a licensed technician service your reverse cycle air conditioning system annually, ideally during springtime for summer comfort or autumn to get winter-ready. But don't worry if these off-season periods don't work for you. Metropolitan Air Conditioning operates all year round, so no matter the weather or time of year, we can help!

Our technicians are experts in servicing all leading brands of air conditioning systems, both ducted and split system air conditioners. We can carry out the following:

• Clear out any dust and debris that might be clogging your system
• Coil cleaning
• Make sure all internal parts are working correctly
• Preventative inspection and maintenance

Metropolitan Air Conditioning provides expert servicing across all major brands from Fujitsu to Mitsubishi Electric to Panasonic and everything in between. Discover how we can help you by calling us, day or night.

Reverse Cycle Repair

As effective as routine maintenance is in keeping reverse cycle air conditioners working effectively and efficiently, they're just like any major household appliance and can be susceptible to faults and breakdowns. Even the best brands on the market aren't immune.

If your reverse cycle system is playing up, anything from a strange split system noise to your ducted aircon not cooling your home when you need it to, call Metropolitan a call.

We're available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including weekends and public holidays. Our technicians are here for everything from urgent fixes to repairs you're finally getting around to addressing. No matter what the issue, we'll do all we can to restore performance and efficiency to your system.

Finance Options** For All Your Reverse Cycle Aircon Needs

Do the potential costs of your air conditioner repair, service or installation keep you up at night? Well, fear no more! Metropolitan Air Conditioning is proud to offer eligible customers a wide range of finance options**.

Just choose a payment plan with one of our providers – Zip or Humm. If approved, you'll be able to take advantage of our services and pay them off in manageable weekly, fortnightly or monthly instalments. Your heating and cooling technician can take you through the easy application process on site and approval usually takes only a few minutes.

As well as our finance options**, we also accept payment by cash, cheque, credit card (Visa, Mastercard or American Express) and online bank transfer.

Quality Assurance Guarantee

At Metropolitan Air Conditioning, we hold ourselves to the highest standards possible. In fact, a commitment to customer service and high-quality workmanship are two central pillars of our business. Our work is covered by a $20 million public liability insurance.

Where and when required, we also provide Certificates of Compliance that demonstrate our adherence to essential government standards and benchmarks. We promise to always turn up on time and always aim to never let our customers down.

So what are you waiting for? When your reverse cycle air conditioning needs a repair or service, or if you need a new one installed, contact Metropolitan Air Conditioning today! Arranging a quote is easy - simply contact us online or give us a call.