Tag: summer ready

The first storm of the season came in on a Thursday evening, and you could smell it before you heard it. By eight o’clock the rain was loud on the roof, and Meg was at the kitchen sink when she saw water falling past the back door. It came over the lip of the gutter […]

Every spring a share of backyard pools comes out of winter green. The owner then faces two decisions in quick succession: how to get the water back, and whether to pay someone to keep it that way. Broadly there are two routes, a one-off recovery visit followed by do-it-yourself maintenance, or a regular service arrangement […]

The pre-summer window is a planning decision The cheapest and most reliable time to find a cooling fault is before the first heatwave, when technicians still have open bookings and the weather has not turned the phone into a switchboard. In most of Australia the pre-summer window runs through spring, roughly October to November, and […]