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Should I Buy a Blueway Air Conditioner?

February 21st, 2008 · 5 Comments

Right now we have a 24,000 btu Blueway Air Conditioner with 6000watt cooling capacity in our main living area that has been working very well. It manages to cool the area fairly well, given that the odd shape of the room. I’ve previously written a review of the Blueway AS24-VR, so you read the full [...]

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Installing our “Rainy Day” Clothesline

February 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

We installed a clothesline in our garage over the weekend so that we could wash clothes even on the rainy days. We don’t have a drier, so we need to dry our clothes on a clothesline, which doesn’t work so well on the backyard clothesline when it is raining.

I was able to reuse our old [...]

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Our Blueway Air Conditioner

November 12th, 2007 · 4 Comments

We purchased a very reasonably priced Blueway Split Inverter Air Conditioner for our living room from Harvey Norman. The Air Conditioner is a Blueway AS24-VR with 6000watt cooling capacity (we don’t really care about the heating up here in the tropics, but the air conditioner also has 8000watt heating capacity).

As you can see in the [...]

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Air Conditioning Season has Begun

October 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Well, today marks the official start of the air conditioning season.
Despite getting the roof on our house sprayed with a reflective paint, today we fired up the Blueway split inverter air conditioner in the living area of our house. Most of our Northern Hemisphere friends would probably be starting up their boilers or furnaces right [...]

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