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Oak Bay's 1910s–1940s character homes are wonderful and demanding: no ducts, plaster walls, radiators or aging boilers, and streetscapes where a sloppy outdoor unit is a neighbourhood incident. Our Oak Bay installs are designed twice — once for heat load, once for sightlines: low-profile units tucked on side yards, paint-matched lineset covers on heritage exteriors, and indoor heads placed where they serve the room without dominating it.
Sound matters on Oak Bay's close lots, so we select equipment with real dBA data and mount it to keep vibration off shared fences and bedroom walls. For the Village's condos and converted homes, our strata approval package (specs, drawings, insurance) does the council legwork — see the condo guide.
Oil-heated character homes carry income-qualified conversion rebates of $10,000–$16,000 including documented tank removal — a rare chance to modernize a heritage home's comfort with the program paying a serious share.