Split system installation labour, straightforward back-to-back (unit supplied separately) Completed tasks on Airtasker's Illawarra air conditioner installation page (fetched 31 August 2026), all in Wollongong local government area suburbs: Helensburgh $200, Woonona $200, Woonona $300, Corrimal $300, Otford $350, Wombarra $350. The page states no summary band for the region, so these are individual transactions rather than a published range. They are labour to install a unit the owner has bought, not supply and install. Two further tasks on the same page, Albion Park Rail $1,000 and Kiama Downs $400, sit outside the Wollongong LGA and are excluded. | A$200 — A$350 |
Split system installation labour, longer pipe run or harder access The upper cluster of the same Airtasker Illawarra task list, fetched 31 August 2026, again restricted to Wollongong LGA suburbs: a back-to-back installation at Berkeley $450, an installation at North Wollongong $600, one at Kanahooka $800, and one at Farmborough Heights $1,111. The task titles do not always say what made the job larger, so the row is labelled by the usual drivers rather than asserting a cause for any one job. The gap between this row and the one above is the reason a single average for split system installation is not useful here. | A$450 — A$1,111 |
Split system supplied and installed Rapidcool, a Wollongong air conditioning and electrical business, answers the cost question in its own FAQ with a typical range of $1,800 to $5,000 for split system installation, adding that it quotes per home rather than publishing fixed rates (fetched 31 August 2026, no page date). It is one operator's indicative range, not a market survey. | A$1,800 — A$5,000 |
Ducted system supplied and installed From the same Rapidcool FAQ, fetched 31 August 2026: ducted air conditioning ranging from $6,000 to $25,000. The spread is wide because zoning, the number of outlets, ceiling space and the switchboard all move independently of floor area, and the operator publishes no breakdown behind the two figures. Treated here as one Wollongong operator's indicative range rather than a local market rate; no second Illawarra installer publishing ducted figures was found on the date checked, and the local installers that were opened quote on inspection instead. | A$6,000 — A$25,000 |
Air conditioner clean or filter service A thin sample, stated as such: two completed tasks on Airtasker's Illawarra air conditioning cleaning page (fetched 31 August 2026) — a ducted system filter clean at 3.7 metres height, Tullimbar, $80 on 27 December 2025, and an air conditioner clean at Kembla Grange, $150 on 21 December 2025. The page publishes no regional band. For scale rather than for this row, the same publisher's Sydney aircon cleaning page states $147-$225 with a median of $185, itself on only 3 reviews. Two tasks is not a market; the row is here because it is real local data, and the range should be read as indicative only. | A$80 — A$150 |
Dedicated circuit or extra power outlet for a new system (licensed electrical work) Airtasker's Wollongong electrician category page (fetched 31 August 2026) states $202-$390 with a median of $300, on 13 reviews. Two completed Wollongong tasks show the shape of the work: three existing 20A power outlets connected to their own existing 20A breaker $300, and four downlights replaced with a circuit inspection $200. This row exists because Schedule 4 of the Home Building Regulation 2014 limits the electrical work inside the air-conditioning category to servicing and maintenance, so new supply wiring is a separate licensed job — and a switchboard that cannot take another circuit is a bigger one again: a Wollongong switchboard upgrade on the same page ran $2,000. | A$202 — A$390 |