Do you have ducted evaporative??

Hoping we're going to have enough pennies left over after all the bills are paid to scrape a ducted evaporative aircon in before summer.

Does anyone have one? We live in a double brick house that really heats up over the course of a heat-wave - really want the cooling to be able to cool the whole house down overnight (it doesn't cross ventilate at all) and figure that pushing cool air from outside through the house all night will achieve this better than just refrigerating certain zones. Would you agree with this?

Any other comments? We live in inland Adelaide - so don't even go there with telling me it won't work when it's humid. It's not often humid here over summer! LOL

My aunty and uncle have evaporative air con. We evacuated there on Black Saturday, it was 47 degrees and their house was nice and cool. They left it on all night and I froze. They do have slate floors, i dont know if that makes a difference. My aunt was also telling me she has to have certain windows open for it to work effictively.

We have evaporative cooling and it does cool the house down BUT when heat is extreme outside it doesnt do a huge amount, I would love refrigerated cooling!!!

We used a stand alone fan also lots in summer.

we have it too, ours is about 20 years old and going well!! the thing to remember its ment to only cool the house to about 10 or so degress cooler than outside, so it wont be freezing cold like a split systme for example, but it does work well

We have evaporative ducted it is good and cost effective, but it will only keep the inside temp around 10 degrees lower than the outside and you do need to have windows open for it too work effectively. Like feeb said when it gets extreme it won't give you the ice box cooling effect.
If you don't get good flow through already you might want to ask a tech type person to check if it will run effectively with out air flow through the house.
You might end up better off with another sort of cooling?
Good luck:D

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