Air conditioning installation in Villajoyosa

Villajoyosa has a lot of older housing, and older housing tends to come with a modest contracted power.

Air conditioning is the addition most likely to expose that, because it runs at the same time as everything else.

Whether your supply can actually run the system

Contracted power is the ceiling on what your house can draw at any instant, and it is where air conditioning installations in this town most often run into trouble. A great deal of the older housing here was contracted decades ago for a household with no air conditioning, no induction hob and no electric car, and nothing has changed since except what is plugged into it.

One split in one bedroom rarely causes a problem. The trouble starts with a second and third indoor unit, or a ducted system, because those run simultaneously and they run at the hottest part of the day — which in a Villajoyosa summer is also when the oven, the pool pump and everything else is running. That coincidence is what trips the main switch, and it does it in August rather than in the quiet month when it was installed.

The check is straightforward and we do it before quoting: what is your contracted power, what is already connected, and what would the proposed system add at simultaneous full load. If the answer is that it does not fit, there are three options — a smaller or better-zoned system, an increase in contracted power, or accepting that not everything runs at once — and we would rather you choose between them at the quote stage than discover the problem later.

Where a property is genuinely old, the supply cable itself is sometimes the constraint rather than the contract. A long or undersized supply to a house on the slope will show voltage dropping under load, and adding a large motor load to that is how you get equipment that starts badly and fails early. Measuring at the board under load tells us which of the two we are dealing with.