If you live in an area with high temperatures and low humidity, then purchasing and installing a swamp cooler is a recommended alternative to a conventional air conditioner, and it will allow you to enjoy comfortable temperatures throughout your home, as well as keeping the humidity at a pleasant level.

A swamp cooler uses a very simple concept in order to reduce the ambient temperature of your home.  At its most basic, the unit will consist of a fan and a wet pad.  The swamp cooler will suck air in, and blow it through the moist pad in order to cool it down and add moisture.  If you’ve ever stood in a slight breeze while wearing a wet top, you will have enjoyed the same cooling effect as a Swamp Cooler has.

When you purchase a portable swamp cooler, it is important to ensure that it is the correct size for the area that you want to cool.  Each model will have a CFM rating, which explains how many Cubic Feet of air per Minute it is able to cool effectively.  If you have a room which is 20 feet long, 10 feet wide, and 8 feet tall, it has a total of 1,600 cubic feet of space in it.  You should purchase a swamp cooler which is rated around half the amount of cubic feet you want to cool. In this case you need to buy a model with a rating of approximately 800CFM. 

It is possible to buy a portable swamp cooler to work in an individual room, or to buy a larger cooling system that can be installed on the side of your house, and provide a pleasant cooling effect for all rooms at the same time.

Installing a Swamp Cooler can be a fairly complex task – particularly for a larger model that is designed to cool the air throughout your home.  The actual unit will need to be mounted on an external wall with access to moving air, and then connected to both electricity and water supplies to ensure uninterrupted operation.  Ducting will need to be fitted in order to carry the cooled air to the various rooms where it is required, and this may be either hidden in the ceiling space or in the walls.

For smaller, portable swamp coolers, the installation is much simpler, as they simply need to be plugged in and switched on.  As long as you ensure that they are regularly topped up with water, they will work tirelessly to cool your room to its desired temperature.

Thanks to the simplicity of its design and the basic concepts of its operation, swamp cooler maintenance is generally fairly straightforward.  Day to day jobs such as keeping the amount of water in the tank of a portable swamp cooler are simple, and maintaining the basic operation of the device is an easy matter.

For a larger system that is integrated into your home, regular servicing and cleaning is essential.  In warm weather, the cooling pads can be a potential breeding ground for the bacteria that cause Legionnaires disease, and these should be regularly replaced and cleaned.  If unit is run constantly over very long periods of time, it can cause wear and tear on the motors, and these should be serviced at regular intervals in order to reduce the chance of failure.

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