A lot of people ask me with Ducted Air conditioning Which one is best. So I thought I would write an article and point out the difference. Firstly what I normally say to people is you have to answer three main questions. So we can determine which ducted air conditioning would suit you best.
3 questions when choosing your air conditioner
- What is your budget as this helps with 2 different parts? The first being the type. As an example, let us say your budget is $4000.00. You will not get a reverse cycle ducted air conditioning system installed for that price. No matter which brand or size. An Evaporative ducted air conditioning system could be installed for that price depending on the size of your home.
- What do you want the ducted air conditioning system to do? As an example, we use 3 main types of ducted air conditioning here in Perth. The first one being ducted evaporative cooling. The second one being ducted gas heating, the 3 one is reverse cycle ducted air conditioning.
- At Gmtair we always ask is it fully installed. Or did you want to do the Diy Ducted air conditioning option. Because once again this can affect the price by up to $1000.00 dollars not many companies will offer this option.
So sometimes when you are asked what is your budget it is for a genuine reason. I get some weird looks at times when I ask, then when explain the reason people understand.
Back to the question at hand Ducted air conditioning which one. Well if you have answered the questions above you may have already limited the choices. If not here is a basic description of the 3 most common duct air conditioning Perth systems.
- Evaporative ducted air conditioning is one of the cheapest forms of ducted air conditioning. S0 it preforms a very effective of cooling in hot dry conditions and is cheap to run and uses a combination of water and air to perform the cooling function. There are 2 disadvantages with evaporative cooling, the first being it does not heat and the second being in does not perform very well in humid weather to the point that some people turn of the water and run fan only.
- Ducted gas heating is more suited to very cold areas of Australia, Perth has very mild winters. But in saying that some people install the gas heating and they heat your home very well. Some of the disadvantages of ducted gas heating the system doesn’t cool be expensive to run. As an if you live in the Perth hills Natural gas is not available in all areas so you have to use bottled gas which is a costly option. One the reasons people use duct gas heating in Perth is the fact they want Evaporative cooling as there preferred option of cooling and the system does not heat.
- Reverse cycle ducted air conditioning is becoming a popular choice with Perth builders and consumers. The system heats and cools very effectively. Reverse cycle air conditioning heats and cools parts of your home as requested by the push of a button. These areas are generally called zones, the number of zones and the size of the air conditioning unit will affect the price of your system. Some people say the disadvantage of reverse cycle air conditioning is the fact you are recirculating the same air through out the home and the running cost can be excessive if not used correctly as an example if you set say cooling at 18 degrees on a 40 deg day the air conditioning unit will keep running trying to get to that temperature. a more realistic temperature would 24/25 degree.
I hope this article was helpful. If you have any questions on ducted air conditioning which one please call me or email me and I would be only happy to answer.