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Hamilton in Newcastle is one of the closest suburbs to our Mayfield workshop, and we're on Beaumont Street and the side streets off it most weeks. We look after Hamilton's older houses, its restaurants and shops, and homes in Hamilton North and Hamilton South. We'll quote a new system for free.

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Unit in the flat above the shop stopped cooling on a Friday. They worked around the strata access rules, got onto the roof, and had it going again by the afternoon.

Alana, Hamilton Repair

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23Working in Hamilton

Air conditioning in Hamilton 2303

Hamilton fits more than 4,600 people into 1.4 square kilometres, so the outdoor unit here is often a metre or two from a neighbour's window, and where it goes matters as much as which brand it is.

Hamilton is about 4 km from the Newcastle city centre and is named after Edward Terrick Hamilton, who governed the board of the Australian Agricultural Company from 1857 to 1898. It began as a coal township called Pittown, Borehole or Happy Flat, around a shaft finished in 1849 near today's Beaumont Street. From 1947 close to 150 families from Lettopalena in Abruzzo settled in the area, and Beaumont Street became the heart of Newcastle's Italian community. The earthquake of 28 December 1989 hit Beaumont Street among the hardest, bringing down facades and awnings. In 2019 the state approved a heritage conservation area covering four blocks between Donald and Tudor Streets, typical of late Victorian and Federation Newcastle: small lots, one or two storeys. The Bureau's old Maryville station, a short way north, averaged 27.6°C on January afternoons from 1969 to 1993.

23What we do here

Air conditioning work around Hamilton

  • Small-lot houses between Donald and Tudor Streets

    Narrow blocks with little side access, inside a heritage conservation area. We look for an outdoor unit spot at the back or down the side, out of the street view, and keep it away from the neighbour's bedroom wall.

  • Restaurants and delis on Beaumont Street

    Dining rooms that fill on a Friday night, with a hot kitchen behind and a cool room out the back. We size the cooling for a full room and look after the cool room as well, outside service hours.

    Servicing and Cleaning
  • Hamilton North and Hamilton South

    Family homes where ducted or a mix of splits can both work, depending on the roof space. Hamilton South takes in the Garden Suburb heritage conservation area, so we plan the outdoor unit position with that in mind from the first visit.

    Ducted Air Conditioning

23Questions

Hamilton: common questions

Our house is in the Donald and Tudor Streets heritage area. Can we still get air con?

Yes, most heritage houses can. The question is usually where the outdoor unit and the pipes go, and whether anything changes the look from the street. Ask City of Newcastle what applies to your property before the work starts. We'll put the proposed position for the unit and the pipe run in writing, so you have it ready for that conversation.

Our Hamilton house is a metre from the neighbours. Where can the outdoor unit go?

On a narrow block we look at the back wall, a bracket high on the side wall, or the roof of a rear extension. We choose a quiet model and keep it clear of the bedroom next door, because a unit humming at night is what causes trouble over the fence.

Can you cool the dining room of our restaurant on Beaumont Street?

Yes. A full room on a summer evening, with a kitchen pushing heat through the pass, needs more capacity than its floor area suggests. We count the seats, the kitchen and the street-facing glass, then size ceiling cassettes or ducted to suit. Installs go in on your closed days so no service is lost.

Our cool room behind the shop on Beaumont Street won't hold temperature. Can you come today?

Ring us straight away and we'll send the first technician who's free. Hamilton is close to our workshop, so it's often a same-day visit. Meanwhile, keep the door shut and move the most perishable stock to a fridge that's working. We check the refrigerant, the fans, the seals and the controller, and tell you the call-out fee first.

Hamilton is near the coast. Do we really need a big system?

Hamilton sits inland of the beaches, and the old Maryville station nearby averaged about two degrees warmer on January afternoons than Nobbys. The sea breeze doesn't always reach the back rooms of a house hemmed in by its neighbours, either. We size each room on the quote visit, so you get enough capacity without paying for more than you need.

Can a split go in our Hamilton terrace without cutting into the old plaster?

Usually. We drill one neat hole for the pipes and run them on the outside wall in a cover painted to match, or through the wall behind the indoor unit. If a wall has decorative plaster, we pick another wall and show you the route before any drilling starts, and we vacuum the dust as we go.

23Got a job?

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Serving Hamilton, Hamilton North, Hamilton South, Hamilton East, Islington, Broadmeadow and Maryville.

Breakdown call-out: $140 in business hours, $220 after hours and on weekends, including the first half hour. Install quotes are free.

Call (02) 5550 2240