We just got a new evaporative cooler to supplement our AC system in Salt Lake City. Cost $700 (Champion 6500 cfm from Home Depot) plus installation of $800, but I gave a sizable tip too. The installer was Matt A. and his partner Alex.
Cooler Runnings Swamp Coolers is a great firm. The owner, Matt, was very professional. They know what they are doing. They flashed around where the cooler fits to our roof fixing a leak from rain that we had before and were just great to work with.
Our old cooler only cooled about 10 degrees. The new one cools about 25 degrees! The air coming out of it is 65 degrees on a 90 degree day, almost too cool! It uses about 30% of the electricity of our AC and only about 7% of our total water use.
We may not have to use our AC at all, unless it gets humid!
We open our sliding doors to our deck and it cools us out there!
I couldn't recommend this firm more highly!!! read more