Lightning McQueen wrote:Booney wrote:Lightning McQueen wrote:Our evaporative is shit, we have an inspection tomorrow so I'm meeting the agent there to point it out to her as I sure as f*** aint getting on the two storey steep roof to inspect it.
I'm going to suggest not renewing my lease because of it, it's a luxurious house with evaporative, what a let down, I can't remember what it was like during last summer unfortunately.
For 90% of our dry summers swampys do the trick, especially in older brick / double brick homes.
More modern places that are brick skin and gyprock internal walls get hotter quicker ( cool down quicker ) and, if not designed right can feel like they're not working at all.
The net effect is you turn the unit up higher, open more doors / windows to get the air flowing and eventually just bring more hot outside air in.
I think it's because of the high humidity we're enduring makes it seem fruitless.
I've been trying to research the ideal air flow for evaporative, need to work out how much of the doors need to be open etc.
A good evaporative should only struggle with humidity once or twice a year at the most here, we sometimes went years without having an issue. There's virtually no humidity today and it's the same for most of the summer.
Evaporatives are the best value wise especially in Adelaide, I was amazed how much refrigerated air con cost when I lived at Prospect, better once or twice a year but you're paying major bucks to cater for those very few days.
