Air Conditioner Installation & Repair in Khelvachauri
About 8 km from Batumi
Yes — Khelvachauri is the municipality immediately south and inland of Batumi, about 8 km out and roughly 15 minutes away, and Imia covers it across the whole municipality rather than just the namesake village. Installation from 140 GEL, on-site diagnostics from 60 GEL, deep cleaning 130–150 GEL, 12-month workmanship warranty.
Private houses, not apartment blocks
Khelvachauri is structurally different from everywhere else on this list. It is a municipality of dozens of villages spread through the Chorokhi valley, and the housing is mostly private houses with yards rather than apartment towers. That removes the problems that dominate Batumi installs — no building management, no facade access issue, no neighbour to negotiate a bracket position with — and introduces different ones.
The main one is distance inside the property. In a flat the outdoor unit hangs a metre from the indoor one. In a house, the sensible place for the outdoor unit is often at ground level in the yard or on a side wall well away from the room being cooled, which means a longer refrigerant run, more insulation, sometimes extra refrigerant added by weight, and a drainage route that has to be planned rather than just poked through the wall. Ground-mounted units also need a proper stand or pad — set straight on soil they sit in water, rust from the base up and suck debris into the coil.
Whole-house cooling and heating
Because the properties are houses, the question here is more often "how do I cool the whole place" than "how do I cool this one room". Usually the honest answer is separate wall units in the rooms that actually get used — cheaper to buy, cheaper to run, and one failure does not take out the whole house. Above roughly four rooms, or where the outdoor units would clutter the elevation, a multi-split or a small VRF system feeding several rooms from one outdoor unit starts to make sense; VRF installation starts from 650 GEL.
Winter matters more inland than on the seafront. Khelvachauri sits back from the coast in the valley and runs a degree or two colder, and a lot of houses here use their air conditioners as the main heating. A heat pump gives roughly 3–4 kW of heat per kW of electricity in this climate, which makes it the cheapest electric heating available — but only if the charge is correct and the coil is clean. A pre-winter check is worth more here than a pre-summer one.
Prices and access
Prices are the same as Batumi: wall installation 140–250 GEL by capacity, unit replacement 80 or 100 GEL, deep clean 130 or 150 GEL, diagnostics from 60 GEL, water-leak check from 50 GEL, refrigerant 15 GEL per 100 g, pipe and drainage preparation from 80 GEL. A longer-than-standard pipe run — common on a house — is quoted on site before work starts, so the price is fixed before anyone starts drilling.
When you call, mention which village or which side of the municipality you are on, because it changes the drive rather than the price. For a house install it also helps to say where you would like the outdoor unit and roughly how far that is from the room — that is usually the one fact that decides whether the job is a standard install or a quoted one.
Every service, available in Khelvachauri
- Pre-installation Pipe & Drainage PrepFrom 80 GEL
- Freon Leak DetectionQuoted on request
- Standard AC InstallationFrom 140 GEL
- Split & Multi-Split AC InstallationFrom 350 GEL
- AC RepairQuoted on request
- VRF System Installation & ServiceFrom 650 GEL
- Cassette & Ceiling-Floor AC InstallationFrom 450 GEL
- Maintenance & Deep Cleaning130 GEL
- Cassette AC Deep WashFrom 250 GEL
- Electrical Diagnostics & RepairFrom 60 GEL
Questions about Khelvachauri
Can the outdoor unit stand in the yard instead of on the wall?
Yes, and on a house it is often better — easier to service, no vibration through the wall. It needs a proper stand or concrete pad so it sits clear of the ground, ideally somewhere shaded and out of the way of debris. It also usually means a longer refrigerant line, which is quoted on site before the work starts.
Do you cover the villages, or only Khelvachauri itself?
The whole municipality, not just the namesake village — the villages through the Chorokhi valley are all inside the service area at Batumi prices. Mention your village when you call: it changes the drive and the appointment slot, not the price. Installation from 140 GEL, diagnostics from 60 GEL.