Want To Boost Your Evaporative Air Conditioner’s Effectiveness? Your Power Bill Will Thank You!

Using evaporative air conditioning (also known as evaporative coolers) is a common whole of home cooling system because of its low purchase price and low running cost. But you can make it work more efficiently and reduce its running cost further by adding a security relief vent and two roof space ventilators (“whirly birds”).These items…

Types of Wood and Gas Fires

There are two types of fire – inbuilt and free standing fires. As their name implies, free standing wood and gas fires stand alone, separate from the wall. Inbuilt wood and gas fires are built into the wall or inserted into a fire place. Inbuilt gas fires may be installed with a gas fire insert…

iZone App Now Available

These days there seems to be an app for almost everything. Well, now there’s an app that allows you to control your air conditioning from your phone. Owners of the iZone 310 Wi-Fi Home Automation Module can now control their air conditioning using the Zone Controller App – now available for download from Google Play. …

Solar Rewards

With a change in Government, the legislation to repeal the carbon tax has been introduced into the Australian Parliament. (1) The Direct Action Plan (2) is part of the Coalition’s attempt to achieve a renewable energy target of 5% emissions reduction by 2020 (compared to 2000 levels). One of the Direct Action Plan initiatives is…