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Choosing a system for a UK home

By Brisk · Published 12 Dec 2025

A modern living room with a wall-mounted indoor unit.

Detached houses, terraces, conversions and apartment blocks all take a different outdoor-unit position. The indoor units go in the rooms you actually use.

Most houses can take one outdoor unit under permitted development. Flats, listed buildings and conservation areas often need consent or drawings. We flag that before we quote.

Indoor units sit high on the wall in bedrooms and the living room. Pipework runs in slim trunking to a single outdoor unit about the size of a bedside table.

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Choosing a system for a UK home

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