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HVAC

Air-to-air heat pump design and installation — sized properly for the room, not just sold off a price list.

F-Gas Certified

Our engineers are Category 1 F-Gas certified, qualified to install, commission, and service air-to-air heat pump systems — for both cooling in summer and heating in winter.

How Air-to-Air Heat Pumps Work

An air-to-air heat pump doesn't generate heat by burning fuel — it moves it. In winter, the outdoor unit extracts heat energy from the outside air, even when it's cold out, and a refrigerant cycle concentrates that heat before releasing it into the room through the indoor unit. In summer, the cycle simply runs in reverse: heat is pulled out of the room and released outside, cooling the space down. Because it's moving heat rather than generating it from scratch, a properly installed system typically delivers several times more heating or cooling energy than the electricity it uses to run.

Air-to-air heat pump refrigerant cycle Shows how a heat pump moves heat from outside air through an evaporator, compressor, indoor coil, and expansion valve to warm a room. Outside air Evaporator Absorbs outdoor heat Compressor Raises pressure & heat Indoor coil Releases heat to room Expansion valve Drops pressure & cools To room Teal = cool, low-pressure line · Gold = hot, high-pressure line

Why Installation Quality Matters

Most of the work in a heat pump install happens inside pipes and behind panels you'll never see — which makes it easy for shortcuts to go unnoticed. A rushed install can run perfectly fine for months, even years, before it fails, and the industry has a real problem with systems put in cheaply and quickly that only show their flaws once the installer is long gone. Here's what we do on every single job, whether or not anyone would ever check.

Flares torqued to spec

Every flare connection is torqued to the manufacturer's exact figure with a calibrated torque wrench — not tightened "by feel."

The shortcut: an under-torqued flare leaks slowly over time; an over-torqued one cracks. Either way, the system loses charge.

Nitrogen purge while brazing

We flow nitrogen through the line set for every brazed joint, keeping the inside of the copper clean throughout.

The shortcut: brazing without a purge leaves carbon scale inside the pipe, which later breaks loose and clogs filters and metering devices.

Nitrogen pressure testing

Every unit is pressure tested with nitrogen to the correct multiplier for the refrigerant used (R32's spec differs from older refrigerants) — and the pressure is held and monitored, not just glanced at.

The shortcut: skip this, and the first real leak test is you noticing warm air months later.

Deep vacuum, verified to hold

We pull a deep vacuum on every system and confirm it actually holds before charging — not just that the gauge hit a number for a second before disconnecting.

The shortcut: moisture left in the line mixes with refrigerant and oil to form acid, which corrodes the pipework and compressor slowly. The system runs fine for years, then fails all at once.

Electrical sized correctly

Wiring and breaker rating are checked and confirmed against the specific unit going in — not just whatever cabling happened to already be there.

The shortcut: reusing old wiring "because it worked for the last unit" risks nuisance trips at best, and a fire hazard at worst.

The honest truth: a poor install and a good install can look identical on the day it's finished. The difference only shows up years later — in a system that's still running quietly, or one that's leaking, corroding, or has already needed a compressor replacement. We build every system to be the first kind.

Brands We Install

Daikin and Mitsubishi Electric units used in the systems below.

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Every outdoor and indoor unit has a different output, so the right system depends on the size and insulation of the room it's heating or cooling. Below, you can design your own system based on your rooms, or compare specific units side-by-side.

Design Your Own System (BETA)

Don't know what size you need yet? Tell us how many rooms and their measurements, and we'll work out the capacity required and suggest real systems that fit.

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Automation & Software

We design and build the automation systems, custom hardware, and software that run behind the scenes — 3D-modelled and printed parts, control hardware, and the interfaces used to run it all.

3D Design & Printing

CAD models and printed parts for enclosures, brackets, mounts, and custom fixtures used across automation builds.

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Software Design

UI and dashboards we've designed for controlling and monitoring automation systems, from desktop control panels to mobile monitoring.

Real-Time Sensor Fusion Dashboard

A concept UI for a precision-reference-aided inertial navigation system — live map track, high-precision reference sensor readouts, and a Kalman-fused IMU view, all updating in real time.

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The dashboard runs on a single animation loop (requestAnimationFrame) that advances a shared simulation clock and feeds three independent update stages each frame: a high-precision reference-sensor model on its own 2-second update cycle, a 200 Hz-style MEMS IMU model, and a vessel-position model driving the canvas map. The IMU view demonstrates sensor fusion directly — raw gyro/accelerometer readings are shown alongside a Kalman-style fused output, where drift against the last reference correction is tracked explicitly and visualized as a decaying confidence bar between 1 Hz fixes. Views are swapped with a lightweight client-side router (no page reloads, no framework) that toggles visibility and re-labels the topbar per section, and every control — the interrogation-time slider, vibration-noise toggle, unit switch — feeds back into the same state variables the render loop reads from, so the interface stays a true reflection of one central model rather than several disconnected widgets.

Hardware Design

The range of automation, embedded, and control systems work we do — spanning home automation through to RF and industrial test. Build photos to follow as projects are documented.

Home & Building Automation

  • Whole-home heating control system (SmartHeat) — room-by-room control, scheduling, overrides, hysteresis, fail-safe fallback logic
  • Shelly/IoT device integration (sensors, relays, actuators) via REST, MQTT, WebSocket
  • MQTT infrastructure — Mosquitto brokers, device discovery, offline-device alerts
  • Loxone building management system integration
  • Web dashboards for room/device/schedule management with live status and diagnostics
  • Irrigation & environmental control — multi-valve automation, moisture sensing, ESP32, fail-safe logic

Industrial & Test Automation

  • Servo drive motion control GUIs — position mode, homing, fault handling, real-time monitoring
  • Sensor data acquisition — IMU integration, binary protocol decoding, GPS-timed data streams
  • Automated calibration & test routines — DAQ verification, timing analysis, repeatable logging (NI-DAQmx)
  • Hardware/software test harnesses for sensors, relays, and communications
  • Business process automation — invoice/bank reconciliation, PDF extraction, audit-ready pipelines

RF & Lab Automation

  • GHz-frequency RF test automation (LabVIEW, Python)
  • Instrument control — oscilloscopes, signal generators, spectrum analysers via VISA, SCPI, GPIB
  • Automated test executives — Java-based cDAQ/PXI systems
  • Phase-noise and RF calibration workflows
  • Industrial comms — Modbus, CAN, serial, Ethernet

Hardware & Embedded Systems

  • PCB design & fabrication — schematic capture, layout, CNC milling, assembly (KiCad/Eagle)
  • Firmware — STM32, Arduino, ESP32
  • Power electronics — DC-DC conversion, level shifting, multi-voltage design
  • Control panels/cabinets — enclosures, terminal layouts, wiring
  • Communications integration — I²C, UART, RS-232/485, CAN, MQTT

Networking & Infrastructure

  • Linux deployment — systemd services, SSH, logging, auto-recovery
  • Secure remote access — WireGuard VPN
  • Local network discovery — mDNS/Zeroconf
  • Monitoring & alerts — heartbeats, retry logic, Telegram notifications
  • Data persistence & APIs — SQLite, REST endpoint design

Skills & Technologies

Python Flask PySide6 JavaScript Node.js Java LabVIEW MQTT Loxone Shelly WebSockets STM32 / Arduino / ESP32 KiCad RS-232/485 I²C CAN Modbus NI-DAQmx Linux / systemd WireGuard SQLite

Build Photos

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Division 03

Electrical (Portfolio coming soon)

Access control and IT/CCTV installs — carried out and documented by our team, start to finish.

Access Control

Installed access control hardware — readers, keypads, and controllers.

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IT & CCTV Installation

Network racks, patching, and CCTV camera installs.

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