Collection: heating & cooling

Heating and cooling appliances handle home heating and home cooling through Australian summers and winters, and the right choice as heating appliances and climate control home gear, depends on the room size, your climate and running costs. A fan moves air cheaply; an air cooler suits dry heat; an air conditioner cools properly in humidity; heaters range from cheap portable units to efficient reverse-cycle systems. Start with the room size and your climate, then weigh upfront cost against what the appliance costs to run.

What cooling suits your climate?

Cooling appliances work differently, and humidity decides which suits:

• Fan: moves air to make you feel cooler without lowering the temperature. Cheapest to buy and run, effective anywhere.
• Evaporative air cooler: cools by evaporating water, which works well in dry heat but poorly in humid coastal climates where the air already holds moisture.
• Air conditioner: genuinely lowers the temperature and removes humidity, working in any climate. Costs the most to buy and run.

What heater suits your room?

Heater types trade upfront cost against running cost. A portable fan or ceramic heater is cheap to buy and heats a small space fast, but costs a lot per hour. An oil column heater warms a room slowly and holds heat well, suiting bedrooms and longer periods. A panel heater suits gentle background warmth in a small room. A reverse-cycle air conditioner is the cheapest way to heat per hour of the electric options, since it moves heat rather than generating it, though it costs the most to install. For occasional use, portable heaters make sense; for daily winter heating, an efficient system costs less overall.

How do you size heating and cooling to a room?

Capacity is rated in kilowatts, and matching it to the room matters — an undersized unit runs flat out and never gets there, while an oversized one cycles on and off, wasting energy. As a rough guide, allow around 0.125 kW of cooling per square metre of floor area for an average room, so a 20 square metre room needs roughly 2.5 kW. Adjust up for large windows, west-facing rooms, poor insulation or high ceilings. Measure the room's floor area and check the appliance's rated capacity and recommended room size before buying.

Common questions

Does an evaporative cooler work in humid weather?
Not well — evaporative coolers cool by evaporating water, so they work best in dry heat and struggle in humid coastal climates where the air already holds moisture. An air conditioner suits humid areas.

What's the cheapest way to heat a room?
A reverse-cycle air conditioner costs the least per hour of the electric options, since it moves heat rather than generating it. Portable heaters cost less upfront but far more to run.

What size air conditioner do I need?
Roughly 0.125 kW per square metre of floor area, so around 2.5 kW for a 20 square metre room. Size up for large windows, west-facing rooms, poor insulation or high ceilings.

Is a fan or air conditioner cheaper to run?
A fan costs a fraction of an air conditioner to run, since it only moves air rather than cooling it. Fans work well in mild heat; air conditioners are needed when it's genuinely hot or humid.

Can I pay for heating and cooling with Afterpay?
Yes. You can split it with Afterpay, Zip, Klarna or PayPal Pay in 4. Our heating and cooling appliances start from $30, which is four fortnightly payments of $7.50.

Complete your climate setup

Heating and cooling work together through the year. Add fans for summer, heaters for winter, and air conditioners for both.

A $30 heating or cooling unit splits into four fortnightly payments of $7.5 with Afterpay, and Zip, Klarna and PayPal Pay in 4 do the same. Every order ships from our Australian warehouse, dispatched within 1–2 business days, with a 12-month warranty and 30 days to return it. We're a family-run Australian store, going since 2016, rated 4.66 out of 5 across 5,363 reviews.