Browse Forums Heating, Cooling & Insulation 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 45568 It's all about wireless, self install now. The cost/benefit of wired setups for the house are no longer what they used to be. Lots of wireless options. Eufy, Arlo and… 2 9798 I’m in a similar position except I’m after sliding 3 stacking doors. I am on a second-story apartment of which the balcony would not adequately fit any bi-fold or… 5 16161 |