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What Evaporative Cooling Actually Does, And When It Suits A Melbourne Home
Evaporative cooling in Melbourne works on a simple idea. Outside air is pulled through wet pads on the roof of the unit, the air cools as it passes through the water, and a fan pushes that cooled air through ductwork into every room of the home. Open windows do the rest, venting the air back outside so the system stays in flow rather than recirculating the same indoor air.
The strength of evaporative on a Melbourne home is the running cost and the fresh-air feel. Most Melbourne summers are dry enough that evaporative does its best work the majority of the time, and the lower power draw versus refrigerated systems is the reason a lot of households stay with evaporative across multiple generations of the unit on the roof. The trade-off is the handful of muggy days each year when evaporative is less effective and refrigerated cooling has the edge.
Whether you are looking at evaporative cooling for the first time, weighing it up against refrigerated, or your existing unit is on its last legs, Savage Air installs and replaces Breezair evaporative systems across Melbourne and the south-east. Use the links below to jump to the page that matches what you need.
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How Evaporative Compares To Refrigerated In Plain English
The honest comparison between evaporative and refrigerated cooling on a Melbourne home comes down to three things: running cost, fresh air, and humidity. Evaporative is generally cheaper to run because the power draw is mostly the fan rather than a compressor, and the household gets constant fresh outside air rather than recirculated indoor air. Refrigerated, on the other hand, dehumidifies the room, runs effectively no matter what the outside humidity is doing, and gives the household sealed-room control over each space.
For a lot of Melbourne households the answer is evaporative for the whole-of-home cooling, sometimes paired with a single refrigerated split in one room (a west-facing bedroom, a home office) for the handful of muggy days each year where evaporative loses some of its bite. Households who want refrigerated as the primary system tend to land on reverse cycle or ducted refrigerated instead. There is no single right answer, only the right one for the home in question.
What You Get From Savage Air On An Evaporative Job
Whichever path the job ends up on, the standard is the same. Savage Air installs evaporative cooling in-house, sized to the home, and signed off under our lifetime workmanship guarantee. Manufacturer warranty up to 7 years on selected brands, registered in the household’s name when the install is commissioned. The team is ARC licensed (AU52122), which is the licence required for refrigerant work where the household is pairing evaporative with a refrigerated split as part of the same job.
On evaporative specifically, we are an authorised installer for Breezair. Where the unit currently on the roof is a Celair, Brivis, Bonaire, Rinnai or another brand we do not install, the changeover still works the same way for the household, the new unit is simply chosen from our brand range.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does evaporative cooling work?
Does evaporative work in Melbourne?
Why do I need to keep windows open?
Will it cool every room in the home?
Can evaporative heat as well as cool?
No. Evaporative is cooling only. For combined heating and cooling from the same system, see Reverse Cycle Air Conditioning.
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