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Air Conditioning Installation In A Surgery Building In New Kings Road, Chelsea

Then the main project this week was an air conditioning installation in Chelsea, at a surgery building in New Kings a Road.

The Kings Road in Chelsea is world renowned for its shopping and high fashion status. Throughout the 1960s it was the hub of mod culture with the fashion of the day miniskirts and boots. As the years moved on, the punk revolution began; a real Kings Road counterculture celebrating an alternative lifestyle. Revolving around the music and fashion created by Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood, the shop names changed as quickly as the clothes.

Music and record companies were also strongly associated with Chelsea and Kings Road. Led Zeppelin owned Swan Song Records at number 484 which is now the site of the first Starbucks outlet in the UK. Cube records merged with Electra records and while the original building was demolished, a record company still inhabits the replacement building.

It is fitting therefore that our client Sevenoaks Sound and Vision have a premises on this prestigious and historic road which is iconic for so many generations of people. The business specialises in sound equipment amongst other electronic items so has quite the synergy with the surrounding environment and history.

Our project was to recover an old air conditioning unit from the flat roof of the building which meant working out the best access to recover the unit. Access was a little bit tricky (as can be seen from the photographs) and the old air conditioning unit had definitely seen better days! We were able to site the new, efficient, modern Fujitsu air conditioning unit in a much better and less precarious area on the building roof.

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Air Conditioning Services London

Simply Air Conditioning London installs, services, and repairs air conditioning systems for homes and businesses across London. Contact us for a free quote.

Quote from one of our happy air deflector free trial recipients:

“Our open plan office houses around 100 people. Air distribution and draft was an issue for some of them prior to fitting air deflectors. Since the fitting we’ve not had a single complaint!”

How we got here

Air conditioning is known to have been applied in Ancient Rome: aqueduct water was passed through walls of houses to cool them. In medieval Persia similar techniques involving the use of cisterns and wind towers were used in the hot season to cool buildings.

Modern air conditioning emerged after advances in 19th Century chemistry, and it was Willis Haviland Carrier who invented and first used a large-scale electrical air conditioning system in 1902.

Air Conditioner Definition

An appliance, unit, system, or machine designed to stabilise the temperature and humidity of air within an area (used for both heating as well as cooling). A refrigeration cycle is the most common method of achieving this although sometimes evaporative coolers are used for comfort cooling inside buildings and vehicles.

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