Air conditioning in Bromley
We install and maintain air conditioning across Bromley, Shortlands and Bickley, from the big interwar semis south of the town to offices and restaurants around the High Street. A reversible unit keeps a bedroom or a shop floor comfortable in a heatwave and takes over the heating when the clocks go back.
Get a Bromley quote
Name, number and postcode. We ring you to go through it.
- Postcodes BR1, BR2
- Bromley Council
Why is Bromley easier than Croydon for outdoor units?
Because the houses stand apart. In the 2021 Census, 18.1% of Bromley's 135,827 households lived in detached homes and 29.9% in semis, against 12.2% detached in Croydon. Permitted development allows a detached house two outdoor units, each up to 1.5 cubic metres, where a semi or a terrace is allowed the first one only. In practice that means a house in Bickley can cool the bedrooms with one system and the kitchen extension with another, without a planning application, as long as every other condition is met. Sources: Census 2021; Planning Portal.
Which parts of Bromley have conservation area rules?
A great many: Bromley Council lists 47 conservation areas across the borough, and in June 2025 it adopted new appraisals for Shortlands Village, Bromley Town Centre, The Covert, The Thrifts and Chislehurst Road. The Bromley Town Centre appraisal says plant should generally be placed out of public view, and reminds owners that permitted development rights for plant are restricted inside the area. If your home or shop is on or near the High Street, Market Square, London Road or in Shortlands, send us the address before the survey so we can check. Sources: Bromley Council; Town Centre appraisal.
What is different about a shop or office in the town centre?
Its age and its neighbours. The town centre conservation area has held a market since King John granted one to the Bishop of Rochester in 1205, and the appraisal lists 25 statutory entries, with Bromley College and its gateway at Grade I and the church of St Peter and St Paul, with its 13th-century tower, at Grade II*. A listed shop needs listed building consent before anything is fixed to it, and any commercial premises should expect to apply for planning permission for an outdoor unit. Our commercial air conditioning page covers the order of steps. Sources: Town Centre appraisal; Planning Portal.
What do we do in Bromley?
Every service on this site is available in Bromley. Choose one to read what the job involves.
Air conditioning installation in Bromley
A survey, a written price, then units, pipework and electrics fitted properly.
Home air conditioning in Bromley
Bedrooms, top-floor flats and loft rooms, with heating thrown in.
Air-to-air heat pumps in Bromley
Cheaper warmth than a plug-in heater, and cooling from the same box.
Multi-split air conditioning in Bromley
Two to four rooms from one outdoor unit, each on its own controller.
Conservatory air conditioning in Bromley
Turns a glass room you use in May into one you use in August and January.
Office air conditioning in Bromley
For offices where people, screens and south-facing glass make the heat.
Commercial air conditioning in Bromley
Shops, cafés, salons, bars and restaurants, with the flats upstairs in mind.
Server room cooling in Bromley
A unit of its own for the rack, sized from the power the kit draws.
Air conditioning servicing in Bromley
A yearly check on any make, with the legal leak test where it applies.
Air conditioning repairs in Bromley
Stopped cooling, dripping, iced up or flashing a code: diagnosed first.
What happens next?
You tell us about the room
Ring 020 8194 3009 or send the form with a postcode, and say which room runs hot, and whether you own the outside wall.
We survey the building
We measure the room, find a place for the outdoor unit, check the electrics and ask about the lease or the freeholder. You get a written price with the electrics itemised.
Consents come first
If a freeholder, a landlord or the council has to agree, that happens before anything is drilled. We supply the drawings and the sound figures they ask for.
We fit, test and show you the controls
Units, pipework and the new circuit go in, the system is pressure tested, evacuated and charged, and you leave with the certificates. A yearly service keeps it right.
Asked in Bromley
How far into Bromley do you go?
Bromley town, Shortlands, Bickley, Sundridge and Plaistow are on our patch, with Beckenham and West Wickham to the west. Send your postcode if you are out towards Chislehurst or Orpington.
My 1930s semi has a loft conversion that bakes. Is that a usual job?
The most usual one in Bromley. A wall unit on the gable or a dormer cheek, with the outdoor unit at the rear, is the normal design. See the loft guide.
Is the weather any different from Croydon?
Not enough to matter. The same Met Office figures from Kenley apply, and they are on our Croydon air conditioning page.
Where these facts come from
Useful to have ready
With these we can give you a straight answer on the first call.
- Your postcode
- Flat, house or business premises
- Who owns the outside wall, if you lease or rent
- Which room, roughly how big, and which way the window faces
- Any conservation area or listing you know of
Get a Bromley quote
Leave your postcode and a line about the room, and we ring you. Or ring 020 8194 3009.