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Price guide — AustraliaAUD

HVAC Repair Cost in Australia (2026)

Transparent, source-cited repair cost ranges in Australian dollars — localized to each SA4 region's labour costs by a published formula. Every figure is an Estimated range, never a fake precise number, and never a currency-converted price from another country. Reviewed July 2026.

Repair cost calculator

$220–$950 AUD Australia national estimate for a gas furnace — not heating / blowing cold air. Localize below.

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Quality tier (adjusts parts)
Estimated Australia national ranges — Gas Furnace not heating / blowing cold air Estimated
Most common repairTypical total (AUD)DIY?
Ignition lockout fix - flame sensor / rectification probe cleaned or replaced and burner cleaned $220–$420 AUD Pro recommended
Gas control valve replacement (Honeywell VR8300 / SIT 840 type) $380–$650 AUD Pro recommended
Ignition control board (PCB) replacement $480–$950 AUD Pro recommended

Plus a typical service-call / diagnostic fee of $80–$300 AUD, often credited toward the repair.

Pick a quality tier for a class-typical estimate, or a specific Australian brand to override it (both adjust the parts portion only, never labour). Enter a 4-digit Australian postcode to localize to your SA4 region's labour costs. All figures stay in Australian dollars, never converted from another country's prices. Everything updates without a page reload.

Base: Energy Safe Victoria, published rates from 3 Australian repair companies (2026-07) · Australia national base range (ABS median employee income) · Reviewed July 2026 · Estimated

These are Australian base ranges from Australian HVAC, ducted-heating and air-conditioning trade sources (GST-inclusive), localized with ABS regional employee-income data — an all-occupation regional index, since Australia publishes no separate HVAC-trade regional wage series. Pick a state or capital-city region below, or enter your postcode on any national problem page.

States & territories

These pages show the localized AUD ranges for the most common repairs. Enter any 4-digit Australian postcode in a problem page's calculator to localize.

The 10 most common HVAC repairs — priced Estimated

The problems people search most, each priced for Australia in Australian dollars. Tap any of them for the full cost breakdown, brand factors, and the localizer.

  1. Gas Furnace — Not heating / blowing cold air $220–$950 AUD
  2. Central Air Conditioning — Not cooling / blowing warm air $260–$3,800 AUD
  3. Heat Pump — Not heating $280–$1,750 AUD
  4. Boiler — No heat / not firing up $250–$1,700 AUD
  5. Ductless Mini-Split — Not cooling $180–$1,100 AUD
  6. Central Air Conditioning — Capacitor replacement $165–$560 AUD
  7. Gas Furnace — Blower motor replacement $420–$1,150 AUD
  8. Central Air Conditioning — Compressor replacement $1,950–$7,000 AUD
  9. Gas Furnace — Igniter (hot surface ignitor) replacement $180–$1,150 AUD
  10. Gas Furnace — Flame sensor cleaning / replacement $150–$420 AUD
  11. Thermostat & Controls — Smart thermostat installation $150–$3,200 AUD
  12. Heat Pump — Refrigerant leak repair / recharge $280–$2,600 AUD

Repair cost by appliance

Common problems

Each page prices the problem in Australian dollars from Australian sources, with the postcode localizer and quality-tier parts factors — never converted from other countries' prices.

Decide & plan

Beyond a single repair price: is it worth fixing, what does the warranty cover, and what does an after-hours call add?

Repair or replace? Cost comparison by appliance 3

Repair cost by part

What one part costs to replace across every appliance it's used in — each figure aggregated from sourced repair jobs, with the problem pages behind it.

How we price this in Australia

Australian national base ranges come from named Australian HVAC, ducted-gas-heating, air-conditioning and spares sources (GST-inclusive) — never FX-converted from the US, Canada, UK, Ireland or New Zealand. We localize them with ABS regional employee-income data (there is no Australian equivalent of the U.S. Regional Price Parity, so the price and overhead terms stay at the national baseline, and no HVAC-trade-specific regional wage table exists, so the all-occupation regional index stands in as the labour-cost proxy). Unlike the UK and Ireland, ducted GAS central heating is a genuine and common Australian product — especially in Victoria, the ACT and Tasmania — so those ranges are real Australian market pricing rather than a substitution; oil-fired warm-air furnaces, by contrast, are effectively absent here and those combos carry the nearest genuine Australian equipment, flagged in each entry. Handling fluorocarbon refrigerant requires an ARC Refrigerant Handling Licence (ARCtick) under the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989 — national, and the default requirement for HVAC because this work routinely opens the refrigerant circuit — while gasfitting and electrical licensing are state and territory matters. US EPA Section 608 has no legal effect in Australia. GST is 10% nationally and already included in advertised prices; many sole traders below the A$75,000 turnover threshold add none. The localization method and named, dated sources are on the methodology page.

Reviewed by a Red Seal–certified appliance technician who also holds a Technical Safety BC gas ticket (Gas-C) and an ODS/halocarbon refrigerant ticket (CFC/HCFC/HFC).