That sounds like a good system, especially if the cooler is on the north or east side. Ours are on the hot metal roof pushing air down. A few years ago I replaced our standard evaporative coolers with two high efficiency Breezair coolers. They have much thicker 4" solid pads that last 8-10 years and the units are self flushing based on mineral content of the water, so they stay clean. No pad slippage, far less maintenance and very low energy use, a small fraction of AC cost. I figure it'll save me 90 trips up and down the roof over ten years.

Our original Essex coolers were good for a max 12-16 degree differential, so when temps got over 100, the house was 85-89 degrees inside, pretty miserable. My neighbors have AC and spend four times as much on electricity. Every day I'm glad we popped for high efficiency Breezair evaporative coolers.


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Yes, hot. I'm doing outside projects when the clouds move in, then back inside when sunny again.

Extra large swamp cooler, keeping up. Temps around 70 in the house, cooler in basement ~ 67.

Swamp cooler is installed in old basement window, picks up the cooler air in basement and pushed through house up stairs.