We recently upgraded the old evap on our house and added the 4 bedrooms as well. It suits us perfectly, and we find it really effective most of the time. Yep on humid days it isn't as effective, and on the 35/40+ days it will only go around 10 degrees cooler, but we can cope with that. I personally find it harder to cope with the heat if I'm spending all my inside time in cold refridgerated air con then the heat hitting you like a wall when you have to go in and out to work/shops/garden etc. With littles ones running around it's much easier leaving windows and doors open too.
We did buy a unit that is slightly bigger than what is needed for our house, and when installed they let us know which windows etc to leave open to make it operate the most effectively, and we really can't complain. But then I do seem to be one of the few that is okay with it!
We had evap in our old house but only put it through the centre corridor of the house to just direct cool air into the main living areas. We were living in SE Melbourne and on those really HOT summer days you really didn't get much relief (the evap can't handle excessive hot days and considering Melbourne can get a week of 40c days in summer) especially if there was a hot northernly wind, as you need to have windows and doors open to circulate the air and it was like the cold air was getting blown out the doors and the hot air was coming in behind it. Yep and on humid days everything would get damp and it was like walking on an ice skating ring with tiles or laminate/hardwood floors.
In our house now, we live just out of Ballarat we installed 4 reverse cycle split systems, in the lounge room and in all 3 bedrooms. I find it works much better and once the house is at a nice temperature we adjust the cooling temp up (generally to about 28) and it maintains a nice temp throughout the house for us. I also love the fact that we can go out during the day if necessary and leave the cooler on so the house is nice when we get home. With evap you need to turn it off if you are locking the house up and then start it up again when you get home, and for cost of electricity it is more cost effective to keep it on constantly at a set temp than turning an evap off and then having to 'crank it' up when you get home to cool the house down.
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