Browse Forums Heating, Cooling & Insulation 1 Oct 21, 2017 8:59 am Hey everyone, we have recently put a deposit down for a 27 square house and with one of the packs it includes the Bonaire evaportaive cooling, at this stage i'm not sure how many outlets are included, i will find this out tomorrow. we have heard mixed reviews about evaporative cooling in Melbourne and wondering if upgrading the system to a ducted air conditioning system is worth the extra money or not bothering as there is really only 5 to 10 days throughout the summer where the evap system wont work effectively due to humidity. If anyone has done something similar what was the rough costs of doing so? Re: Melbourne Evaporative Cooling or do we Upgrade? 2Oct 21, 2017 1:24 pm ThomasTheDankEngine Hey everyone, we have recently put a deposit down for a 27 square house and with one of the packs it includes the Bonaire evaportaive cooling, at this stage i'm not sure how many outlets are included, i will find this out tomorrow. we have heard mixed reviews about evaporative cooling in Melbourne and wondering if upgrading the system to a ducted air conditioning system is worth the extra money or not bothering as there is really only 5 to 10 days throughout the summer where the evap system wont work effectively due to humidity. If anyone has done something similar what was the rough costs of doing so? Our house that we just demolished had evap cooling. We loved it. Yes there are a few days it doesn’t work as well but for the most part it worked well. We happily ran it day and night. We have chosen to have it in our new house as well. Re: Melbourne Evaporative Cooling or do we Upgrade? 3Oct 23, 2017 11:32 am ThomasTheDankEngine Hey everyone, we have recently put a deposit down for a 27 square house and with one of the packs it includes the Bonaire evaportaive cooling, at this stage i'm not sure how many outlets are included, i will find this out tomorrow. we have heard mixed reviews about evaporative cooling in Melbourne and wondering if upgrading the system to a ducted air conditioning system is worth the extra money or not bothering as there is really only 5 to 10 days throughout the summer where the evap system wont work effectively due to humidity. If anyone has done something similar what was the rough costs of doing so? I have the same concern.. I am building similar size house and we have our electrical appointment next week. My friends and work colleagues suggest its no point as they say there is a major issue of a wet feeling in your house and furniture. Eventually they landed up getting an a split system. Some of them got ducted aircon in their next homes. its expensive but they say its worth it. We are confused too Re: Melbourne Evaporative Cooling or do we Upgrade? 4Dec 07, 2017 7:50 pm I am also on the same page and building roughly the same house size. Been reading posts here re evaporative and refrigerated cooling. Also doing some research on their running costs. Still havent made a decision yet. Re: Melbourne Evaporative Cooling or do we Upgrade? 5Jan 25, 2018 12:37 pm I'm late to the party here so perhaps too late for the OP, but for what it's worth we are in Melbourne (Brunswick) and have had evaporative cooling in our Californian for 15 years. We added a storey a few years ago and made some compromises to the design to accommodate keeping evaporative cooling (with a bigger unit) in the bigger house. I work from home and absolutely love this type of cooling. It is very, very rare that it is ineffective – I could count the number of days on one hand that I've felt it hasn't coped. On the plus side it provides a far more gentle, natural feeling cool than refrigerated cooling, and I love that we can (in fact have to) leave some windows open so we don't feel closed in. The dampness thing is really not an issue. If anything it curls some of the paper in my office, but certainly we've never noticed any effect on the furniture. I don't know what it would be like if you ran the system day after day. We only turn it on on days above, say, 34°, or after a run of 30+ days. Otherwise we prefer just to open the house up. I guess if you need to keep your internal temp at 22°, so would run the evaporative cooler for half the year, you might have more moisture problems. Cost wise I believe evaporative cooling is much cheaper than refrigerated as you're really only running a water pump (occasionally) and a fan. But I'm not an expert on that. Re: Melbourne Evaporative Cooling or do we Upgrade? 6Feb 07, 2018 4:20 pm djb21au I'm late to the party here so perhaps too late for the OP, but for what it's worth we are in Melbourne (Brunswick) and have had evaporative cooling in our Californian for 15 years. We added a storey a few years ago and made some compromises to the design to accommodate keeping evaporative cooling (with a bigger unit) in the bigger house. I work from home and absolutely love this type of cooling. It is very, very rare that it is ineffective – I could count the number of days on one hand that I've felt it hasn't coped. On the plus side it provides a far more gentle, natural feeling cool than refrigerated cooling, and I love that we can (in fact have to) leave some windows open so we don't feel closed in. The dampness thing is really not an issue. If anything it curls some of the paper in my office, but certainly we've never noticed any effect on the furniture. I don't know what it would be like if you ran the system day after day. We only turn it on on days above, say, 34°, or after a run of 30+ days. Otherwise we prefer just to open the house up. I guess if you need to keep your internal temp at 22°, so would run the evaporative cooler for half the year, you might have more moisture problems. Cost wise I believe evaporative cooling is much cheaper than refrigerated as you're really only running a water pump (occasionally) and a fan. But I'm not an expert on that. Just to round this off, today it is a dry 37° in Melbourne at 5pm (13% humidity). Inside our house with the evap cooling working at about 70% it is 25° in the living room, similar in most other rooms and 28° in my office (which, unfairly, is the warmest room!). I do enjoy the drama:-D In his latest two videos he has started bringing security guards to site, I am waiting for the punch on to begin lol 6 45547 It's all about wireless, self install now. 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