COOLING

Choosing the right cooling system

When you consider that cooling accounts for a large proportion of household’s energy costs over summer, it’s so important to select the right cooling methods for your home. The wrong choice can prove both costly and uncomfortable.

Evaporative	Reverse Cycle	High Wall Split	Dual Cycle	Commercial

The most important choice you have to make is whether you need to cool separate rooms or your whole home.

Room cooling

If you only need to cool individual rooms in your home, then a Refrigerated High Wall Split System is the way to go. This system consists of a condensing unit installed on the outside of your home, and a wall mounted unit inside your home, which artificially cools the air through indoor and outdoor coils connected by pipes carrying refrigerant gas. For a low cost and easy to install option Bonaire also has the Bonaire Durango, a window mounted fresh air room evaporative cooler.

Whole-of-home cooling

When it comes to cooling your whole home, you have the choice of two main systems: ducted refrigerated systems and ducted evaporative systems.

The ducted refrigerated systems work on the same principal as the split room systems, with an indoor and outdoor coil. Traditionally you’ll find these systems work on a day/night zone system which lets you cool the living areas of your home during the day and cool the sleeping areas at night.

Ducted evaporative coolers, on the other hand, use fresh air to cool all rooms of your home at the same time. Fresh air is drawn from outside your home through the water moistened filter which cools and cleans the air. The cool, fresh air is then circulated through the ducts, forcing stale air out through open windows and doors. This natural cooling process has low installation and low running costs, low noise and low greenhouse emissions, and is ideal for asthma and hay fever sufferers. All rooms in your home are cooled at the same time.

Some important questions In a long hot summer, will I be comfortable just cooling one or two rooms? Do I want the comfort of having every room cooled? Should the purchase price be my biggest consideration? Do I need cooling all day or for short periods of time? Should I think about running costs? Will noise bother me or my neighbours? Does anyone in my house suffer from asthma or hay fever?