Air conditioning in
North London
This is where we are based. Our workshop is in N14, which puts most of north London inside a twenty minute drive, and it is the reason we can survey here faster than we can anywhere else.
- Free survey, no charge and no obligation
- Fixed written price before anything starts
- Permission position checked for your address first
Brands we work with
Air conditioning installation in north London costs 1,750 to 2,900 pounds for one room fitted including VAT, and 3,200 to 5,500 pounds for two rooms on one outdoor unit. There is no travel charge anywhere in north London: we are based in N14.
North London is the easiest part of the city to install in, and the reason is the housing stock rather than the paperwork.
Why north London is the easiest part of the city to install in
Most of the housing between the North Circular and the M25 is interwar semi-detached and detached, built between about 1920 and 1939, and it has the one thing an air conditioning installation actually wants: a side return. A side return gives you a ground level position for the outdoor unit that is out of sight from the street, away from the neighbour's window, on solid ground that needs no bracket, and reachable with a ladder in ten years time when it needs a service.
That single feature removes most of what makes an installation expensive. No wall brackets, no scaffold, no roof frame, no long pipe run around the front of the building, and no argument with a freeholder. It is why a straightforward bedroom job in Southgate or Winchmore Hill lands at the bottom of the price range and the same job in a Kensington mansion block lands near the top.
Where it stops being easy
Two places. The first is the Victorian and Edwardian terracing closer in, through Islington, Camden, Stoke Newington and parts of Haringey, where there is no side return, the rear elevation is often three storeys, and the outdoor unit has to go on a bracket or in a light well. That is a real job rather than a hard one, but it adds 250 to 600 pounds for the bracket and anti-vibration mounts, and sometimes a tower.
The second is conservation areas, which are dense in Camden and Islington and patchy further out. Inside one you keep permitted development rights on a house, but the unit cannot go on a wall or roof slope fronting a highway. In practice that means the rear, which in a terrace with no side access is exactly where the bracket problem lives. We check the boundary for your specific address before quoting.
What we can actually promise on timing here
A survey within 48 hours for anywhere in the boroughs listed below, and usually the next working day for Enfield, Barnet and Haringey. A fault call we will answer with the day we can genuinely attend rather than a day that sounds good on the phone.
The reason those numbers are different from the ones a London-wide company can offer is not effort, it is geography. From N14 the top of the borough list is fifteen minutes and the bottom of it is thirty. Nobody is crossing the river twice in a day.
What it costs in North London
| Job | System | Installed price |
|---|---|---|
| One bedroom | 2.5kW single split | £1,750 to £2,400 |
| One double bedroom | 3.5kW single split | £1,900 to £2,800 |
| One living room | 5kW single split | £2,300 to £3,600 |
| Two rooms | 2 unit multi-split | £3,200 to £5,500 |
| Three rooms | 3 unit multi-split | £4,500 to £7,500 |
| Annual service | Any make | £95 plus VAT |
| Fault diagnosis | Any make | £89 plus VAT, waived if we repair |
Every figure on this site is an estimate based on published UK market ranges and our own installation experience. It is not a quotation. The price you are given after the free survey is the price you pay.
The North London boroughs we cover
Each of these has its own page with the local housing stock, the conservation area position and the postcodes inside it.
Enfield
EN1, EN2, EN3, N9, N13, N14, N18, N21
Enfield pageBarnet
EN4, EN5, N2, N3, N11, N12, N20, NW4, NW7, NW11
Barnet pageHaringey
N4, N6, N8, N10, N15, N17, N22
Haringey pageIslington
N1, N5, N7, N19, EC1
Islington pageCamden
NW1, NW3, NW5, WC1, N6, N7, N19
Camden pageWaltham Forest
E4, E10, E11, E17
Waltham Forest pageEverything else we do in North London
Servicing
Annual service from 95 pounds plus VAT, any make, keeps the manufacturer warranty valid.
Book a serviceRepairs
Not cooling, leaking, tripping or showing an error code. 89 pounds plus VAT to diagnose.
Get it fixedCommercial
Offices, shops, salons and server rooms, with out of hours fitting where the space cannot close.
Commercial workAir conditioning in North London: common questions
Which north London postcodes do you cover?
Every N postcode, every EN postcode, NW1 through NW11, and the E postcodes at the top of the list through Walthamstow and Leyton. The boroughs with their own pages are Enfield, Barnet, Haringey, Islington, Camden and Waltham Forest.
If your postcode is not on that list it does not mean no. What decides a job is drive time from N14, not a boundary on a map, so it is worth asking.
Is air conditioning cheaper in north London than central London?
Slightly, and not for the reason people expect. The units and the labour cost the same. What differs is access: no congestion charge, parking outside the property rather than a permit and a walk, ground level outdoor positions instead of brackets and hoists, and far fewer freeholders to satisfy.
On a like-for-like single room job the difference is usually 150 to 400 pounds. On a flat in a managed block it can be considerably more, and that is a consent problem rather than a location one.
Do you install in north London flats?
Yes, and a good share of the work is flats, particularly the interwar and 1960s blocks through Finchley, Wood Green and Walthamstow. It takes two permissions rather than one: written freeholder consent and planning permission, because flats sit outside permitted development for this work.
We prepare the licence pack the managing agent asks for at no charge. The order the two permissions are done in is what decides whether it is expensive, and there is a full sequence on the leasehold flats page.
How quickly can you get to a breakdown in north London?
In the boroughs closest to us, usually the same or next working day in season. Further out it depends on what is already booked, and we will tell you the honest date.
A diagnosis is 89 pounds plus VAT and it is waived if we carry out the repair. See the repairs page for what we can usually fix on the first visit.
Free survey anywhere in North London
Tell us the postcode and which rooms, and you get a written fixed price and an honest answer on whether it needs permission.
Monday to Friday 9am to 7pm, Saturday 10am to 3pm, Sunday closed
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