Air conditioning in Welling
Welling grew in a single generation, after the Danson estate was sold off and the semis went up on both sides of the railway. We install and maintain air conditioning across Welling, East Wickham and Falconwood, and because the housing is so uniform, most jobs here follow the same pattern: one outdoor unit at the back, pipes down the side return, a bedroom or a loft cooled.
Price a job in Welling
Three details and we call you back with the next step.
- Postcodes DA16
- Bexley Council
When was Welling built, and why does it matter?
Mostly between the wars. Before the Bexleyheath Line opened on 1 May 1895, Welling was a village on the main road from London into Kent. After the First World War, Bexley Urban District Council built more than 400 houses north of the railway, and once the Danson estate was sold to developers the land to the south was opened up too: the Falconwood Park Estate was on sale by 1931, and Braziers were marketing the Anthony Road Estate at about the same time. The house those years produced, a three-bedroom semi with a side passage, is the one we see most, and for air conditioning it is the easy case: permitted development allows it one outdoor unit, the rear wall is yours, and the garden has room. Sources: Wikipedia; Ideal Homes; Planning Portal.
Does any of Welling sit in a conservation area?
No. Bexley Council's list of 23 conservation areas has none in Welling or East Wickham; the nearest lie across the neighbouring boundaries in Bexleyheath and Sidcup. What Welling has instead is Danson Park, the second-largest green space in the borough, with Danson House at its centre, a Palladian villa of the late 1760s that now serves as the borough's register office, and the park itself on the national register at Grade II. For a householder that means the ordinary permitted development rules apply in full: one unit on a semi, two on a detached house, nothing above ground-floor level on a wall that faces the road, and 37 dB(A) or less at the neighbour's nearest window. Sources: Bexley Council; Discover Welling; Ideal Homes; Planning Portal; Grant UK.
What about the shops on Bellegrove Road and the High Street?
They are the one place in Welling where the job turns commercial. The parade runs along the old Watling Street, and most of its shops have a flat upstairs: at the 2021 Census, 1,166 households in Bexley lived in commercial buildings, over a shop or in an office block. For a shop owner that means an outdoor unit which passes the sound test at a bedroom window a few metres above it, and almost always a planning application, because the Planning Portal's advice for non-domestic buildings is that a heat pump is likely to need one. Our commercial air conditioning page sets out the order of steps. Sources: Wikipedia; Census 2021; Planning Portal; Grant UK.
What does a Welling landlord need to know?
That Bexley made a borough-wide Article 4 direction on shared houses in September 2016, now in force, so a house let to up to six unrelated people needs planning permission as a house in multiple occupation, and that the council's selective licensing scheme covers Belvedere ward only, from January 2025 to January 2030. East Wickham has a long history of housing workers: the huts built there in the Great War were homes for munitions workers from the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich. A tenant who wants cooling needs the landlord's written consent first; the flats guide explains what to ask for. Sources: Bexley Council; London Property Licensing; Bexley Council on licensing; Wikipedia.
What we fit and look after in Welling
The whole of our service list reaches Welling. Pick one for the detail.
Air conditioning installation in Welling
The whole job from the first measurement to the handover of the remote, with every consent checked on the way.
Home air conditioning in Welling
The back bedroom, the new flat with the glass wall, the loft nobody can sleep in: cooled in summer, warmed in winter.
Air-to-air heat pumps in Welling
The same wall unit, run the other way: a room heated for pence an hour, with the summer cooling thrown in.
Multi-split air conditioning in Welling
Several rooms, one box in the garden. The design that fits inside a semi's single permitted outdoor unit.
Conservatory air conditioning in Welling
For the glass room that is a greenhouse in July and a fridge in January, and the garden office beside it.
Office air conditioning in Welling
Offices from a room above a shop to a floor on a business park, with the heat rules and the landlord dealt with.
Commercial air conditioning in Welling
Retail and hospitality premises, sized with the door open and the bedroom over the shop remembered.
Server room cooling in Welling
Dedicated cooling for the rack, calculated from the wattage on the plugs and running when the office is dark.
Air conditioning servicing in Welling
An annual visit for any system by any installer, with the legal leak check where the charge demands one.
Air conditioning repairs in Welling
Warm air, a puddle under the indoor unit, ice on the pipes or a blinking code: the cause found before anything is ordered.
From first call to first cool night
Tell us about the room
A call to 01322 952910 or the form with your postcode in it. Which room overheats, what the building is, and whether the outside wall is yours to drill.
Survey, then a figure in writing
We measure the room, choose a position for the outdoor unit, calculate the sound at the neighbour's window, look inside the consumer unit and ask about leases, landlords and covenants. The price arrives in writing with the electrics itemised.
Consents settled first
If a freeholder, landlord, management company or council has a say, we wait for it, and we supply the drawings and sound figures they will ask for.
Installed, tested, shown to you
Units, pipes and the new circuit are fitted; the pipework is pressure tested and evacuated before charging; the system runs in both modes while we measure it; the certificates are yours and so is a tour of the remote. After that, a service once a year.
Welling questions
Do you come as far as Falconwood and Blackfen?
Yes. Welling, East Wickham, Falconwood and Blackfen are all on our round, with Bexleyheath next door and Sidcup to the south.
My semi backs onto the railway. Does that change anything?
It makes the case for cooling, because railway noise is one of the reasons people keep bedroom windows shut. It does not change where the unit goes: the rear wall, sized for the room.
Are the temperatures the same as Dartford's?
Welling is about five miles closer to Greenwich Observatory, the Met Office station whose figures are on our Dartford air conditioning page, so if anything they fit Welling better.
Sources we checked
- Wikipedia: Welling
- Ideal Homes (University of Greenwich): Welling in pictures, the 1930s estates
- Ideal Homes (University of Greenwich): a history of Welling and East Wickham
- Planning Portal: when an air source heat pump on a house or flats is permitted development
- Bexley Council: conservation areas, listed buildings and historic parks
- Discover Welling: Danson Park and the other green spaces
- Grant UK: planning guide for heat pumps in England, with the 37 dB(A) test (May 2025)
- Census 2021: accommodation type, Bexley
- Planning Portal: air source heat pumps on non-domestic buildings
- Bexley Council: Article 4 directions in force
- London Property Licensing: the Bexley HMO Article 4 direction and licensing guide
- Bexley Council: property licensing schemes
Worth knowing before you ring
With these we can usually tell you on the first call whether the job is simple.
- The postcode
- Whether it is a house, a flat or business premises, and roughly its age
- If you rent or lease, who owns the external wall
- Which room, how big, and the direction its window faces
- Any management company, conservation area or listing that applies
Price a job in Welling
A name, a number and a postcode is enough. Say which room if you can. Or ring 01322 952910.