@SmilingGecko no there is no AC rebate in WA. I had always planned to upgrade the air con but it's just never been affordable. Maybe I should have spent the money on the air con instead of spending 3 months in North America....nah, I don't regret that trip!!
I do have a genny though, my brother bought it many years back and it came in handy when Western Power cut my power off in error and took 6 days to reconnect it. I'd paid the bill and by the time I got through to the call centre to advise my power had been disconnected. Being a Thursday which is the day they normally disconnect for non-payment I found out, I was told it would take 2 business days to be restored. Western Power were not at fault, they had to contact Horizon who had the authority to disconnect and restore. My brother said words to the effect of "bugger this for a game of soldiers" and went out and bought a generator. It's come in handy for when there has been outages lasting several hours to keep the fridges running.
I'm just grateful mum has decent air con in her house, she's 80 and doesn't deal with the heat well either.
Humidity sucks doesn't it. Going through the 'pause is bad enough but the hot flushes really ramp up in summer and once it gets over 30 I start dripping. I hope you manage to stay comfortable and the humidity drops for you x
