Marine Air Conditioning Installation Quote Checker
Pick the job you have been quoted for and enter the figure. You will see where it sits against what the work should cost, and what to ask about if it looks unusual in either direction.
Marine Air Conditioning Quote Comparison Calculator
Ex GST. If your quote includes GST, divide by 1.1 first.
This is a sanity check, not a valuation. A quote outside the range is not automatically wrong — a difficult install genuinely costs more, and a yard clearing its books genuinely charges less. What matters is whether the reason for the difference is one you can see in the quote.
Installation Scope and Exclusions Behind a Low Quote
The three things most often missing from a low quote are the three that decide whether the system still works in five years. Before choosing on price, check that each is written down.
Teeing into the engine intake is cheaper and starves one or the other under way. If the quote does not name a new skin fitting and seacock, ask where the water comes from.
Fixed 240 V wiring on a vessel is licensed work to AS/NZS 3004.2. A quote with no electrical line either excludes it — leaving you to arrange it — or is doing it improperly.
A 16k unit makes litres a day in a Queensland summer. To a sump or shower drain, on a gravity fall. "It'll go to the bilge" is not an answer.