Evaporative Cooling Service, Repairs and Diagnostics in Woodend

Evaporative cooling in Woodend

Woodend is a heating town first, but the summers here are dry and an evaporative cooler is a very good way to cool a Woodend house. The trouble is the other eight months. A cooler is a wet appliance that lives on a roof: water sits in a tank, is pumped over pads and evaporates into the air that flows through the house. Through a Woodend winter that water goes stale, frosts perish the rubber parts, minerals set on the pads and leaves and dust settle in the tank. Left alone for a few seasons the cooler starts to smell, cools a little less each year and eventually fails on the first hot week, when every heating and cooling company in Victoria is flat out.

An annual spring service resets all of that. We are in Woodend every week, so it is an easy booking.

What our technicians do on a service visit

Our technicians are our own employees, factory trained on Brivis and experienced with Braemar, Bonaire, Coolair and Breezair equipment. On every Woodend cooler they follow the same checklist:

• Clean the unit. Tank drained and cleaned, cabinet and grilles cleaned, leaves, bark and debris removed from the pad frames.
• Pads. Inspected for mineral build-up, blockage and damage. Cleaned where they are serviceable, quoted for replacement where they are not.
• Water system. Pump tested under load, float valve checked and adjusted, drain or dump valve checked so the unit empties between uses, water distributor checked for even coverage across every pad.
• Fan and motor. Bearings and drive checked, motor current tested, fan speeds verified.
• Electrical and controls. Connections checked, controller functions tested, timer and fan modes verified, fault history read on units that store it.
• Run and report. Full run through all modes, airflow checked at the outlets, and a written summary of what we found.

We tell you the price before we start and quote any parts, such as pads, before we fit them.

Repairs and diagnostics

If the cooler has already stopped, or is showing a fault, tell us the symptom when you book and we will send a technician with the likely parts. The Woodend repairs we do most are floats and dump valves that have perished over winter, pumps that have stopped lifting water, controllers that will not respond, and pad sets that have gone hard. We fix coolers that are worth fixing. When a unit has a cracked cabinet, a leaking tank or a control board nobody supports any more, we say so and talk you through a changeover instead of charging for repairs that will not hold.

If you are changing the heating

Many Woodend households keep their evaporative cooler when they replace the gas heater, because dry-day cooling from a cooler is cheap and the heating decision is the one that matters here. If you are considering a full gas to electric conversion, the cooler can stay or be removed, decided after inspection, because the new system cools through its own ducts, and we will explain both paths at the site visit.