A condenser against a rubble wall on a tiled terrace beside sliding doors and dressed stone

Air Conditioning in Santa Ponsa

A lot of the housing here went up quickly and was glazed generously, which was a good decision for the view and an expensive one for the afternoon. In these properties most of the heat arrives through the glass, and a system sized on floor area will spend August removing something that could partly have been stopped at the window. Say which windows the sun reaches and the request goes on from there.

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A wall unit above a sitting room with beams and folding shutters open to a courtyard and condenser

Glass is where the load comes from

A square metre of unshaded glass facing the afternoon sun admits many times the heat of a square metre of wall beside it. That is why two rooms of identical size in the same house can be completely different problems, and why a specification based on square metres will be comfortable in one and hopeless in the other.

It also means the cheapest capacity in the building is shade. External shutters, an awning, a pergola or a deep overhang stop the heat before it is inside, and heat stopped outside never has to be removed by a machine that costs money to run. Internal blinds help far less, because by then the energy is already in the room.

None of this replaces a system. It changes how large the system needs to be and how hard it works, which is a running cost decision as much as an installation one, and it is worth raising with whoever surveys the property.

What the survey should be looking at here

  • Which direction the large windows face, and at what time they are hit
  • Whether there is any external shading, or only internal blinds
  • Whether the glazing is single, and whether replacing it is on the table
  • Sliding doors onto terraces that stand open through the evening
  • Rooms with glass on two sides, which are usually the worst in the house
  • How much of the roof is exposed above the rooms that suffer

Usually asked for here

Installation

Sizing done from the glazing rather than from the floor area.

Split and multi-split

Capacity put in the rooms that actually carry the load.

Holiday rentals

Much of this stock is let, and that changes the specification.

Nearby areas

Palmanova

Air conditioning for apartments and holiday homes in Palmanova, with outdoor units placed where the community allows.

Costa de la Calma

Air conditioning for villas and apartments on open, sun-facing plots in Costa de la Calma.

Calvià

Air conditioning for village houses inland and resort properties on the coast of Calvià.

How your request reaches a company

Mallorca Climate Control is a comparison service. A request for air conditioning in Santa Ponsa goes to the air conditioning and heat pump companies on our list; they quote the work and carry it out, and any agreement is between you and the company you pick.

  1. 01

    Describe the job

    Tell us the property, roughly what you want and where it is. Photographs and a rough plan help, though neither is required.

  2. 02

    We match it

    The request goes to companies that work in your area and take on this kind of job at this size.

  3. 03

    They quote you

    Each company contacts you directly with its own price, timing and approach. We do not set any of it.

  4. 04

    You compare and choose

    Put the quotes side by side and take the one you want, or none of them. Using the site costs you nothing.

Why is one room so much worse than the others?

Almost always the glass and the direction it faces. A room with a large window taking the afternoon sun is receiving several times the heat of a similar room facing the other way, and no amount of capacity elsewhere in the house helps it. The room has to be assessed on its own.

Is external shading worth doing as well?

It is the cheapest capacity available. Stopping heat outside the glass means it never enters the room, so the system runs less and for shorter periods. Internal blinds are much less effective, because the energy is already inside by the time they intercept it.

Should the whole property be conditioned?

In these houses usually not. The load is concentrated in the glazed rooms facing the sun, and solving those properly is a better use of a budget than spreading capacity into rooms that are already tolerable.

Get air conditioning quotes in Santa Ponsa

Say which rooms are the problem and which way they face, and let several companies price the same brief.

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