Due to the hot wave in recent years I was thinking to install air conditioner in my place. I'd tried moving unit which performs badly and quite inconvenient.
In order to be prepared for the next hot wave, I asked my local electricity company and they introduced me another vendor in next village, which told me even their existing customers have to wait till winter for the installation.
I went to Bauhaus and noticed they have similar models of AC on sale, and I asked about installation. They said they only sell the AC and I have to sort out the installation on my own.
I searched "Klimaanlage Montage service" online and found a German vendor:
I can see you're in deepest Switzerland.. but.. why not ask a Klima firm in Germany (like the ones you linked to). They might come over the border to install.
(Just a sanity check.. you do own your own house don't you ? And you are sure you won't need any permissions ? (pretty sure this was discussed in other threads))
Based on my experience talking to Swiss ones, the progress is incredibly slow so I assume the situation is similar in Germany, plus the cross border engineering hassles etc. That's why I want to check if anyone has similar experience here.
I already did similar search and found a few companies doing the installation service, even for getting a quote takes more than 3 months. The best company I found so far works like this:
Me) I want to install AC for my house
They) It's summer, you have to wait till Winter
Me) I can wait. Let me know when you're available
[3 months later]
They) OK, we're available now. Send me your floor plan etc
Me) Here you here (reply in same day)
[A few weeks later]
They) Thank you for the floor plan, we have a few other questions....
Me) Reply same day
[A few weeks later]
They) Here's your offer that include option A / B
Me) I prefer option B
[No response for a few days]
The other company is in similar situation, except they're even more slower. The experience is not very encouraging and promising...
I saw this summer that Jumbo was also selling split units as was Hornbach . You could check with them about availability and who they were suggesting for installation.
From memory, Jumbo had about 6 different units (Samsung?) and Hornbach had 1 or 2 (another brand).
With aircon installation price quoted usually includes 4m of copper. I have 6 units & longest run of copper was 29m so an additional 24m @ €29m = €725. Unusually long but I wished to hide the piping rather than take the shortest route of 12m. Remember you may also want to hide the pipes so allow for Gypsum works & painting.
Of course you can. That they all speak foreign languages here, and often not even the same foreign language, is a perfectly valid reason to hate the country. You have my full moral support in any efforts you make to correct this lamentable situation.
In the meantime, and pending a full satisfactory resolution of this problem, there is always Google translate .