Your evaporative cooler used to knock the heat out of a 35-degree Melbourne day without any trouble, but lately it just isn’t cutting through the way it should. Before you assume the whole unit needs replacing, it’s worth checking one part first: the...
Plenty of Melbourne homes have both an evaporative cooler and a split system, and there is nothing wrong with owning the two together. The catch is that you cannot run them at the same time. Each system needs the exact opposite setup from your house to work properly,...
There’s nothing worse than switching on your evaporative cooler during a Melbourne heatwave and getting a weak, warm breeze instead of the cool relief you were after. The good news is that most cooling problems come down to a handful of common causes, and some...
If your ducted heating hasn’t run since last winter, it’s been sitting untouched for months, and that’s exactly when small problems start building up unnoticed. A short pre-winter check catches these issues while they’re still simple, rather...
If you have ducted heating and you’re still paying to warm rooms nobody’s sitting in, the system is probably zoned, and you’re just not using it properly. Ducted heating zones let you direct heat to the rooms you’re actually using instead of...
If your ducted heating is not working, the good news is that most faults can be traced to one of five causes. You can safely rule out several yourself before calling anyone. Work through the checks below in order. If you get to the end and it’s still not...
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