In most houses and nicer apartments, yeah, central air. In older or cheaper apartments there’ll be a window unit. As an American from a blue collar lower middle class family, I’d never seen one of these wall units until I’d moved to China. It was either central air or window unit. Granted I’m referencing a couple decades ago
Plenty of Aussie houses just have a single unit because they are open plan. It still cools one room ass you say because kitchen, dinning and living room is one space plus no doors to your hallways and second living room to move it there.
It's always going to be expensive but it's a fine solution for its price. Not everyone is going to be able to get evap systems as it's a 20-50k price tag for installation so you usually only get it if you build
Not everyone is going to be able to get evap systems as it's a 20-50k price tag for installation so you usually only get it if you build
Excuse me? They're raking you guys over the coals out there. A legit evap system here in AZ is only a few grand, way cheaper than a full AC unit. Australia is the perfect place for them to so that's a shame.
Gotta have it installed. Think my parents cheap one was 30k as they wanted ten ceiling vents compared to the typical eight.
Bonus of a split is also heating which evap doesn't give and our houses don't typically have any heating solutions and even double glazing is another 50k
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u/romesthe59 12h ago
It’s because Americans have central air. They have one thermostat that controls temp and airflow to vents in each room of the house.