Gas Ducted Heating
Optima’s origins lie in installing gas ducted heating. Although we have grown our capabilities to a wide range of heating, our experience and expertise means that you can be assured of the highest quality gas ducted systems.
We install the following brands of gas ducted heating:
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Brivis
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Bonaire
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Lennox
Systems can take only a day to install – to discuss a gas ducted heating system for your home, contact Optima today.
What is gas ducted heating
Gas ducted heating heats air in a gas-fired central heating unit and circulates it throughout your home via a network of ducts. The warm air generated is pushed through the ducts by a fan. These air outlets are positioned unobtrusively and strategically around the home, and can be installed in the floor, ceiling or walls. The central heat exchanger unit is usually placed in the ceiling or under the floor, depending on your home. For houses built on a concrete slab the unit is housed in the ceiling, for homes with minimal space or a low roof line, the unit is installed in the floor.
Benefits of gas ducted heating
Energy Efficient
Gas ducted systems are very energy efficient, which means that they have a very low running cost.
The central heating unit will switch off its burners once your home reaches the pre-set temperature. The fan circulating air slows down, meaning that all of the remaining heat in the unit is used to heat your home. As such, a gas ducted system only uses energy when your home is below your desired temperature.
When burned, gas produces far less carbon dioxide emissions than coal. In Victoria, electricity is largely generated by burning coal, which means that a gas ducted system is much more environmentally friendly.
The efficiency of these systems, combined with the low, stable cost of gas, makes them very cheap to run. All gas ducted heating systems come with an energy efficiency rating, as provided by the Australian Gas Association.
Room-by-Room Settings
Gas ducted heating systems can allow you to set a different desired temperature for each room in your house. It may be that different family members have different temperature preferences, or that some rooms in your home are rarely used and so do not need to be regularly heated.
This ability to set different temperatures in different rooms also allows you to save energy. Leaving rooms unheated lowers the amount of energy used, meaning that you can save money and help the environment.
Add-on cooling
Air outlets installed as part of gas ducted heating can also be used to circulate cool air with the add on of a cooling system.
In the same way that air passes through a gas-fired heat exchanger, a cooling system passes air through an indoor cooling coil where the heat in the air is transferred to a refrigerant. The refrigerant carries the heat outdoors where it dissipates into the outside air.
Cooling systems can be installed at the same time as the gas ducted heating or at a later date, as required.
We install the following add-on cooling systems:
- Brivis
- Actron
- Bonaire
Contact Optima today to discuss year-round climate control systems.
