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How To Choose The Right Air-Conditioning System

Welcome to my first blog!

Im setting this blog up to help people when they're choosing their air-conditioning to make the right decisions. If you get the right guidance and you listen to people that have got the right technical knowledge then you will end up with the correct air- conditioning system. There is nothing I hate more than seeing clients who go to so called professionals to get help, get given the wrong advice and then end up with a lemon or something that is going to end up costing them a fortune in the future.

So today, what I want to do is talk to you about choosing the correct system. Just some simple steps that you can take to ensure that you end up with the correct air-conditioning system. Then in a future blog I will talk about how to find the right tradesman. But for now lets just talk about choosing your system.

The first thing you should do is sit down and think about what you really want to achieve with your air-conditioning because you can do quite alot these days. You can have air-conditioning systems that can turn on and off for different times of the day for you, seven different days a week; you can have a system that is so energy efficient that your electricity bill will make you smile every time you get it; or would you like to have individual temperature control in each different area of your home, and then as soon as that one area let's say your bedroom reaches temperature it can turn your whole air-conditioning system off so that it saves you alot of money on electricity. You need to ask yourself all these questions and once you know what you want to achieve with your air-conditioning you can then determine the correct sized air-conditioning system for your needs. Now this should be the most carefully thought out part of the purchasing process because if you get the incorrect capacity for your home it will either a) cost you too much to run b) it will not heat you up or cool you down adequately or c) not only will you have spent alot of money and be very unhappy with your air-conditioning system but you will be left with this big white elephant because it is very very expensive to change the mistake.

So for my clients I want you to do something very important, anyone that quotes you on an air-conditioning system if they are giving you a full service you should watch and see if they do a thing called a 'reema heatload'. This is a mathematical calculation which measures things like which aspect the glass is facing in the house, the height of the ceiling, the thickness of the walls, the construction of the house, whether you have insulation in the house, is it a pitched roof, do you have a timber floor, lots and lots of different variables that need to be calculated so that you know the correct capacity that you need for your home and there's no guessworks so when you turn your air-conditioning on its going to do the job you want it to do. That is the most important thing you can do.

Now if your doing the air conditioning yourself and if your going to be selecting the unit, then there is a way that you can do this quite easily by going to a website called www.fairair.com.au, it will ask you these questions as well and once you fill in the answers it will give you a total kilowatt capacity at the bottom. All you need to do then is make sure that your air-conditioning system is the size of that kilowatt capacity and hey presto your going to have the right air-conditioning system for your home, there wont be any risk or worry (unless you enter your answers in incorrectly that is) as you've taken the time to determine the correct capacity of your air-conditioning.

So please make sure you do this, make sure you know what your capacity is, dont listen to anyone who says oh you need a 6 horse power unit because horse power really means nothing these days and people can misrepresent it quite easily. You just need to know the kilowatt capacity and you want to make sure you answer those questions on www.fairair.com.au accurately, or make sure that whoever comes into your home spends at least 45 minutes to work this out as it takes about that much time to figure out the kilowatt capacity needed. So you know if anyone comes into your home and is done and out in 20 minutes, you shouldn't use that compnay as they have not done the correct calculations.

Alright guys I hope that's been a help, PLease put in your Comments and feedback below!