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Air Conditioner Not Cooling? What to Check Before You Ring Anyone
It is running. You can hear it. The room is still warm. Every October the phone fills up with exactly this, and a fair s…
Read more →Getting Your Aircon Ready Before the Build-Up Hits
Every year the first properly hot week of the build-up fills our calendar in about three days. The units that die in tha…
Read more →What Air Conditioning Installation Actually Costs in Darwin
Nobody wants to say a number, so here are ours. Most bedroom installs come out around $2,500 all in. Living areas start …
Read more →What a Switchboard Upgrade Actually Costs in Darwin, and Why
Nobody in Darwin puts a number on this, which is why everyone rings around getting vague answers. So here it is: most sw…
Read more →How Often Should You Actually Service an Air Conditioner in Darwin?
Short answer: at least once every two years, and preferably once a year. Do not leave it five. Here is why that is diffe…
Read more →Why Your Air Conditioner Smells Musty When It Starts Up
That hit of damp gym bag when the unit first kicks on is not the filters, and it is not the drain. It is mould growing o…
Read more →What Size Air Conditioner Do You Actually Need in Darwin?
Nearly every online sizing calculator will undersize a Darwin room, because they were written for a climate that has a w…
Read more →Repair or Replace? Working Out Whether an Old Air Conditioner Is Worth Fixing
There is no single number where repairing stops making sense. But there are four things that decide it, and most people …
Read more →Ceramic Fuses: What They Are and Why Yours Needs Replacing
If your switchboard has rows of white or brown porcelain plugs you pull out and rewire, you are running your house on te…
Read more →What We Find in Sixty-Year-Old Darwin Switchboards
Darwin housing stock is unusual. A lot of what is still standing was built or rebuilt in a hurry, and a fair amount of i…
Read more →Why Your Safety Switch Trips When It Rains
If it only happens in the wet, that is not a faulty safety switch. That is a safety switch doing exactly what it was ins…
Read more →The Battery Rebate: What It Actually Covers
The number people arrive with is usually far higher than the number that turns up on the invoice. Not because anyone is …
Read more →Why Halogen Downlights Make Your House Hotter
A halogen downlight turns most of the electricity it uses into heat, not light. In a Darwin house that heat goes into th…
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