Armadale is the south-eastern-most suburb of Perth, the state capital of Western Australia.
My name is Bret Busby, and I have lived in Armadale, WA, for about 27 years (as at November 2020).
I have created this web page, to promote businesses that are local to, and businesses serving, Armadale in Western Australia.
If you contact one of the businesses listed on this web page, as a result of seeing the business listed on this web page, please tell the business that. And, if you want, tell me, too.
This web page is a work in progress, and I will be working on it as time goes on.
The inclusion of any business listed on this web page, does not mean that that business agrees with anything that I have published on this web page or anywhere else on this web site, unless I so state.
Quality Airconditioning and Heating
Quality Airconditioning and
Heating is an authorised dealer and service agent for Braemar ducted
evaporative air-conditioning and ducted gas heating, a brand that,
with its associated brands, Breezair and Coolair, is now not so reputable.See below.
Quality Airconditioning and Heating is located at
Shop 2, 5 Mallard Way, Cannington,
and can be contacted by phone at (08) 9358-0651.
Updated 18 February 2021 - This company has changed over the years, and has deteriorated to the extent that I can no longer recommend it, but must now, strongly recommend against dealing with this company, due to the contempt with which it treats its customers, and, the poor quality of servicing, whereby, the work that it does, is now not expected to last, but, fails, and, if they arrange to send someone out to do a job, they do not bother to send anyone, so, they can not be trusted to do anything properly.
The company, with jobs that it has done, including installations, when the jobs and installations are supposedly completed, does not provide any guarantees or warranty, for the work done, or for the installations, providing only handwritten notes of what is supposed to have been done.
They lie, they breach contracts, and they sell products that are unfit for sale.
They engage in unconscionable business practices, and they cause wilful damage to customers' property, and they recklessly endanger customers.
They trade under the business name "Quality air-conditioning and heating", and with the slogan "The family business that cares" - both are fraudulent misrepresentations; their effective business policy is "If you want quality air conditioning, go elsewhere, because we simply do not care".
In that company, now, truth, honesty and courtesy are unknown concepts, and, they delight in bullying invalids.
And, with their shonkiness, their official business philosophy is now
"If our services are not up to your standards please take your business elsewhere. "
- the company Managing Director, who lies about their operations
Our air conditioner is a Braemar ducted evaporative air conditioner; the premium brand manufactured by Seeley International, who also manufacture the cheaper ducted evaporative air conditioner brands Breezair and Coolair. The air conditioner includes an electrical component, which short circuits and trips the Residual Current Device (the safety main fuse in the household electrical switchboard), which shuts down the electricity supply for the house. This is likely the cause of an electricity supply failure in the house, some years ago, while we were away on our last vacation together (it has not been regarded as sufficiently safe. to leave the house uninhabited, for more than a few hours at a time, since then), with that electricity supply failure having resulted in physical damage in the house, costing 10,000 to 20,000AUD, to repair.The electrical component that short circuits, causing the electricity supply to the house to fail (it is about as safe, as using a nail to replace blown fuse wire, in an electricity safety fuse, in a household fuseboard), is apparently named a solenoid switch, by the air conditioning retailer. The solenoid switch may last a month, or it may last a few months, of use, or, it may not last that long. The solenoid switch, when replaced, is supplied and installed, without any warranty on the part itself, or the workmanship of replacing the solenoid switch.
I have lost count of the number of times that the solenoid switch has failed in the air-conditioner, and has had to be replaced.
And, now, the company named above - "Quality Air-conditioning and Heating" - will no longer service the air conditioner, making the house, hotter inside, on hot days, than if the air conditioner had not been installed. And, this refusal, in the context of the record-breaking forecast maximum temperatures of the week-long Christmas 2021 heatwave in Armadale, Western Australia, with a second heatwave forecast for the following week, could resonably be said to be an act of cruel and inhuman torture, involving an attempt to kill the household residents. (this paragraph added 2021-01-01)
And, this business appears to be the only authorised retailer and service agent, for the Seeley International brands of ducted evaporative air-conditioners, for the area including Armadale, Western Australia.
So, if you are considering getting a Braemar, Breezair, or, Coolbreeze, ducted air conditioner, it is safer not to, and, I strongly recommend against it.
Braemar? Unsafe. Unreliable. Unserviceable. As this is supposed to be the premium brand of Seeley International, then, the same applies to their other products, including Breezair and Coolair.
See under Motor Vehicles, below.
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Armadale Drycleaners
I have used and recommend Armadale Drycleaners,
which is at Shop3/54 Fourth Road, Armadale,
and can be contacted by phone at (08) 9399-4810.
The Good Guys
A Good Guys store is in Cockburn, on the Armadale side of the Kwinana Freeway
This is the nearest Good Guys store, to Armadale.
Address: Unit 1, 87 Armadale Road, Cockburn, WA 6164
Phone:08 9414 0600
or click on the email address The Good Guys, Cockburn
Appliances Online
An Australian online electrical retailer based in the eastern states of Australia, which delivers to Western Australia, is Appliances Online. I have dealt with this company, and, my experience was so bad, that I strongly recommend against dealing with the company. Similarly with the extended warranties that they sell, that are provided by IAG/Lumley/Wesfarmers Insurance - the name kept changing between the three, during a claims process, and the extended warranty "provider" did not have a constant name, and the extended warranties are not honoured. The extended warranties are shown to be simply fraudulent. I note that Appliances Online is associated with, if not owned by, Winning Appliances, which has a store in Western Australia, with advertisements on television in Perth, Western Australia, and so I would equally, not recommend Winning Appliances, being part of, if not at the top of, the empire.
In this,
1. Appliances Online sold a fraudulent "Extended Warranty" cover, which was not honoured,
2. Appliances Online dishonoured its advertised prices,
3. Appliances Online dishonoured its "Best Price Guaranteed" guarantee, and,
4. Appliances Online sold goods that were
1) not of merchantable quality, and
2) not fit for purpose.
And, in a claim on the "Extended Warranty", the "Extended Warranty" "provider";
IAG/Lumley/Wesfarmers Insurance - the name kept changing between the three,
1. did not provide or offer a loan appliance, as promised in the "Extended Warranty" document, and
2. did not repair the defective appliance, as promised in the "Extended Warranty" document, and
3, did not offer to replace the defective appliance, as promised in the "Extended Warranty" document, and,
4. did not issue a refund, as promised in the "Extended Warranty" document.
So, the "Extended Warranty" was clearly, a fraud, as is Appliances Online.
And, notably, when the extended warranty claim was made, and, was being evaded by the extended warranty "provider(s)", no written acknowledgement of receipt of the claim, was received, that stated anything like
We acknowledge receipt of your extended warranty claim made on (date that claim was made, which was about the start of July, 2017).
Bunnings
Bunnings Armadale
is at the corner of Armadale Road and Ranford Road.
See
http://www.bunnings.com.au/stores/wa/armadale
For details, including trading hours and location.
National Hearing Centre
The National Hearing Centre has a branch in Armadale, where it provides hearing tests, and supplies and fits prescription hearing aids.
Armadale Mower World
Armadale Mower World sell and service various gardening and lawn maintenance and tree work machines, from domestic to commercial products, including lawnmowers, mulchers, weed and brush cutters, chainsaws and ride-on mowers.
Armadale Mower World is located at 79 Champion Drive,
Seville Grove, and can be contacted by phone, at
(08) 9497-1399.
Armadale Mower World has a web site at
http://www.mowerworld.com.au/
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Lower House
Electorate of Burt
Matt Keogh of the ALP is the member of the lower house of the federal parliament, who is paid to represent the constituents of the federal electorate of Burt. Instead, he represents the interests of the uranium and coal mining companies, in the federal parliament, against the interests of his constituents, and, helps criminal organisations to defraud his contituents out of thousands of dollars per household. An electoral redistribution being undertaken (yes, we are to be buried...) for the 2022 federal election, is expected to abolish the electorate of Burt, merging our electorate into another electorate. But, even if we are left without an electorate, it would probably not make much difference, as we, the constituents of the Burt electorate of the federal parliament, are unrepresented in the federal parliament, anyway. And, the office of the current "member" for Burt, has explicitly stated that 38% of the currently eligible voters of Australia; Australian citizens, should not be allowed to vote, based on race, and that is according to ALP policy. And, Matt keogh, apart from being a direct advocate for the uranium and coal miners, is a member of the "Otis Group' - the hardline pro-coal faction ("support more coal mining, or we vote against the party"), anti-environment faction, of the ALP.
Electorate of Canning
Andrew Hastie of the LNP is the member of the lower house of the federal parliament, who is paid to represent the constituents of the federal electorate of Canning. He is an ex-member (captain) of the Australian SAS (part of the army), and is the chairman of the "Joint Statutory Intelligence and Security Committee" of the federal parliament, and, as such, believes that women should be kept barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, and that women should ever have been allowed into the military services, as they are unfit for military service. Apart from the Australian SAS therefore being represented as an organisation where the only quality is who can urinate highest upon the barracks walls, australian training of soldiers and especially officers, clearly excludes teaching military history, including about such famous female soldiers, as Boudica and Lyudmila Pavlichenko, to name only a couple of historically famous female soldiers. But, then, the N in the LNP is regarded as standing for Neolithic, indicating the nature of the party.
So, clearly, neither of the "members" for Burt or Canning, can justify their memberships of the parliament, or, their exorbitant pay packets, which, in themselves, are completely unjustifiable. They are just more bludgers, and, frauds, for they do not represent, but, instead, act against the interests of, their constituents.
Upper House
Senators "for" WA
Michaelia Cash (Lib) Term of Office Expires 30 june 2022
Mathias Cormann (Lib) Term of Office Expires 30 june 2022 (Retiring - not even serving full term - quitting mid-term so replacement is not elected)
Sue Lines
(ALP) ("Labor Left") Term of Office Expires 30 june 2022
Rachel Siewert
(Greens) Term of Office Expires 30 june 2022 (Retiring)
Dean Smith (Lib) Term of Office Expires 30 june 2022
Glenn Sterle (ALP) ("Labor Right") (member of the "Otis Group' - the hardline pro-coal faction
("support more coal mining, or we vote against the party"), anti-environment faction, of the ALP) Term of Office Expires 30 june 2022
Slade Brockman (Lib) Term of Office Expires 30 june 2025
Patrick Dodson (ALP) Term of Office Expires 30 june 2025
Matt O'Sullivan (Lib) Term of Office Expires 30 june 2025
Louise Pratt
(ALP) ("Labor Left") Term of Office Expires 30 june 2025
Linda Reynolds (Lib) Term of Office Expires 30 june 2025
Jordon Steele-John
(Greens) Term of Office Expires 30 june 2025
And, from my experience, almost all of these WA senators do not either acknowledge or respond to, communications from their constituents, from whom, these senators remain aloof and detached.
Lower House
Electorate of Armadale
Tony Buti (ALP) is the member of the WA state parliament lower house for Armadale.
Upper House
East Metropolitan Region
Unlike the bodgier federal parliament upper house, the WA state parliament upper house, while still being bodgy, has all of its members facing re-election at each full parliamentary election, now every four years. From the state parliament web site, the current members of the upper house, for the East Metropolitan Region, for which, the Armadale electorate is one of the fourteen lower house electorates of the region, are, each facing election due on 13 March 2021;
Members (in order of election):
Alanna Clohesy (WA Labor)
Donna Faragher (Liberal Party)
Samantha Rowe (WA Labor)
Matthew Swinbourn (WA Labor)
Tim Clifford (The Greens, WA)
Charles Smith (Western Australia Party)
All of those members, like the federal parliament upper house senators from WA, are aloof from, and, completely detached from, and, most, if not all, are unknown to, their constituents, and, they do not either acknowledge or respond to, communications from their constituents.
Of particular interest here, is, because the state parliament operates in absolute contempt of the people of the state, especailly, the people of Armadale, with the state parliament operating on the Animal Farm principle; "All animals are equal, and some are more equal than others", in state elections or the state parliament upper house, votes of voters in different Regions, have the value that is six times the value of a vote of an Armadale voter. It is part of the corruption that is the state parliament.
You might be interested in viewing the web page (that web page is updated on an ongoing basis, as much as possible) that contains some of the needs of Armadale for the WA state parliamentary election due in March 2021, at
http://www.armadale-wa.net/politics/Armadale-Needs.html
and
the web page (that web page is updated on an ongoing basis, as much as possible) that lists the published candidates for Armadale for the WA state parliamentary election due in March 2021, at
http://www.armadale-wa.net/politics/Candidates-Armadale-2021-WA-StateElection.html
Auotobarn - Eighth Road Shopping Centre ("Haynes Shopping Centre), Armadale
Their service is bad; email messages to them, are 'disappeared", bookings for fittings,
in their computer system, get overwritten and all records erased, and,
they do not honour warranties.
"Trust them? no way!"
Irvin Bullbars
Irvin Bullbars supply and fit bullbars, roobars and crashbars for motor vehicles,
do a good job, and do it at good prices.
I have used, and I recommend, them.
Irvin Bullbars are located at Midvale.
Their web site is at
http://www.irvinbullbars.com.au/ .
Their contact web page is at
http://www.irvinbullbars.com.au/contact .
Bob Jane T-Mart Armadale
Their service is good.
Bob Jane T-Mart Armadale supply and fit a variety of tyres
Bob Jane T-Mart Armadale is located at the corner of Commerce Avenue and Wiliam Street, Armadale.
Bob Jane T-Mart Armadale is open
Monday to Friday - 7:45am - 5:00pm and
Saturday - 7:45am - 4:00pm
Bob Jane T-Mart Armadale can be contacted via
the phone number (08) 9399 4800,
or by email at bjarmadale(at)tmarts.com.au .
City Subaru
City Subaru is in Victoria Park, near the Causeway, on Albany Highway, and
provide quality servicing for Subaru motor vehicles.
I have found City Subaru to be the best of the Subaru dealers that
I have used in the Perth metropolitan area, for servicing Subaru motor vehicles.
They have a web site at
http://www.citysubaru.com.au/ .
Their address is 37/165 Albany Highway Victoria Park WA 6100
and the telephone number for their Service Department, is 9416-0888.
The Service Department trading hours, are Monday - Friday 7:30am-5:00pm
Maddington Smash Repairs
Their service is excellent, for both insurance work, and
work that does not involve an insurance claim.
Maddington Smash Repairs is a Recommended Repairer for ALL major
insurance companies, including the RAC.
While Maddington Smash Repairs may be regarded as servicing Maddington,
Beckenham, Kenwick, and Gosnells, rather than Armadale and Kelmscott,
their service makes them worth travelling to, and, some dodgy panelbeaters
exist in many places, but Maddington Smash Repairs is not a dodgy
panelbeating company - it is a panelbeating company that I strongly recommend.
Maddington Smash Repairs are located at 6 Malcolm Road, Maddington.
They can be contacted via
the phone number (08) 9459 3430,
the fax number (08) 9493 3430,
or by email at maddington.smash(at)bigpond.com .
Snap Printing Armadale
Snap Printing Armadale provide good, quick service and quality printing.
Snap Printing Armadale is located at
Unit 1
17 Alex Wood Drive
Forrestdale 6112
and their landline telephone number is 08-9497-2226.
Contact email address is
armadale(at)snap.com.au .
They have a web page at
http://www.snap.com.au/snap-armadale.html .
medibank private
Private health insurance is compulsory in Australia,
for households with an income above particular thresholds.
Unfortunately, private health insurance companies, such as
Medibank Private, exploit this, using the forced payment
of private health insurance premiums, to defraud their victims,
for whom, they are not required to either provide any
health insurance, or, membership cards, when
their victims have been regularly making the forced premium payments, punctually.
Medibank private is simply a powerful criminal organisation,
involved in fraud, with the "private health insurance ombudsman",
and, the local member of the lower house of the federal parliament,
Matt Keogh, both actively assisting in, and, encouraging, the fraud,
causing people who are forced to pay the fraudulent premiums,
to go without healthcare, for which, we can not afford to pay,
being forced instead, to pay money that we could otherwise use to pay for healthcare,
to criminal organisations such as medibank private, that prevent us from getting healthcare.
Happy Gathering Chinese Restaurant
The Happy Gathering Chinese Restaurant is BYO Dine-in or Takeaway. It also provides home delivery service in the Armadale area, for orders over $30, on Wednesday to Sunday. We have used this restaurant, and recommend it.
Business hours are:
Lunch –
Sunday to Friday
(excluding public holidays) - 11.30am to 2.00pm
Dinner –
Monday
to Thursday - 4.30pm to 9.30pm
Friday & Saturday - 4.30pm to
11.00pm
Sunday and Public holidays - 4.30pm to 9.30pm
The Happy Gathering Chinese Restaurant is located at 91 Jull Street, Armadale, and can be contacted by telephone, at 9399 5683 or 9498 1542.
Han's Cafe
Han's Cafe is Dine-in or Takeaway.
Han's Cafe provides quality Asian cuisine and very good service.
We have used and recommend Han's Cafe in Armadale.
Han's Cafe is situated in the shopping complex at 193 Jull Street, Armadale,
and can be contacted by telephone at 9498-1388.
The restaurant is licensed and BYO.
Downunder Signs
Downunder Signs manufactures and supplies a variety of signs
and provides quality signs and service, quickly and efficiently.
Downunder Signs is located at 31 Owen Road, Kelmscott,
and can be contacted at telephone number 9497-1155
and they have a web site at
http://www.downundersigns.com.au .
A person looking at the roof of our home, will see that we have two domestic rooftop photovoltaic systems, totalling about 5kW of maximum possible generating capacity. These were supplied and installed at about the end of 2013 / start of 2014. They were supplied and installed by a company named Express Solar. The web page published at
http://diamondenergy.com.au/express-solar-customers/
and the linked document, show that Express Solar has been liquidated as of June 2017. Despite the documentation published there, claiming that customers of Experess Solar, would be contacted, within "the next few weeks" of the start of June, 2017, we have not been contacted about this. The company that took over the remnants of Express Solar; Diamond Energy, has been contacted about this, with questions such as what now happens regarding warranty coverage on the systems supplied and installed by Express Solar. I am awaiting a response. Diamond Energy, unlike Express Solar, appears to have no presence or representation, in Western Australia.
I have now found that email sent to Diamond Energy has been bounced with the error message "User Unknown", so, Diamond Energy appears to have also disappeared.
Added 24 December 2017 - One of our photovoltaic systems has failed, and, the other has deteriorated performance.The inverters (Rewatt) appear to have failed, and Diamond Energy apparently no longer exists, and Rewatt does not have a presence in Australia, so the warranties for our photovoltaic systems, which are still "in warranty", are not worth the paper on which they are written.
So, warranties on domestic rooftop photovoltaic systems, at this stage, appear to be not worth the paper on which they are written, as, under "Australian Consumer Law", as cited by the Western Australian debilitated replacement for a department of consumer protection, when domestic rooftop photovoltaic systems fail, regardless of whether they are subject to warranty, and, regardless of whether they are "fit for purpose", or, "of merchantable quality", the official stance of the Australian "consumer protection", is "tough luck, sucker, you lose".
Added 16 November 2020 - In March 2019, after taking abaout two years (photovoltaic systems installation companies can sometimes be slow moving, in Australia) to get the inverters replaced, we had a Goodwe inverter (a GW5000D-NS) installed, and it has now been operating for about twenty months, and, it seems to work well and provide good data output, so, I recommend Goodwe photovoltaic inverters, for domestic rooftop photovoltaic systems.
Solahart Joondalup
Solahart Joondalup provide good, quick service and quality solar water heating systems installation and service.
They also provide and install solar electric / photovoltaic systems.
Solarhart Joondalup is located at
Unit 4
200 Winton Road
Joondalup 6027
and their landline telephone number is 08-9301-4564.
Contact email address is
chris(at)solahartjoondalup.com.au
or darryn(at)solahartjoondalup.com.au .
They have a web site at
https://www.solahart.com.au/dealer/solahart-joondalup .
I have moved the material about telecommunications, to Telecommunications .
However, it should be noted that telecommunications in Australia has been made completely unstable, by the Australian federal parliament, to the extent that, for each of the cellphone networks, the landline telephone network (such as it is, given that the federal parliament determined that the landline telephone network should no longer work during an electricity supply failure), and, acccess to the Internet, it is very much a case of "sometimes, it works, and, sometimes it does not, and, given that this is Australia, any kind of stability and reliability, can not be expected". For each of the three means of telecommunications mentioned; cellphones, the Internet, and, landline telephones, access is now intermittent and erratic, for which, due to the progressive elimination of any sort of quality, the Australian federal parliament must assume complete responsibility.
Of particular note, is that "telecommunications" companies are not required to provide to their customers, contact email addresses or telephone numbers, via which to make complaints or otherwise voice our concerns, so, we have no real way of reporting faults.
It is pretty much like the electricity grid in south west Western Australia (which includes the state capital; Perth) - simply unstable and unreliable;fragile, and, decomposing.
It is a state of national emergency, which, solely for the sake of public image (which is progressively deteriorating, regardless), the respective legislatures refuse to acknowledge.
Railway Avenue Veterinary Hospital
The Railway Avenue Veterinary Hospital is situated at 251 Railway Avenue Armadale, and can be contacted by phone at (08) 9497 1547.
I use and recommend the Railway Avenue Veterinary Hospital, which provides good, friendly service, and supplies a range of veterinary products.
I strongly recommend not getting a Rheem water heater.
My experience is that Rheem water heaters, especially their "premium" "quality" water heaters,
are junk, are unfit for purpose, are unsafe, and, should not be allowed to be sold.
The water heaters do not last for the warranty period, and, Rheem does not honour product warranties.
Rheem is a criminal organisation that engages in fraud and extortion, with the active support and
encouragement of the corrupt Western Australian state government. An apt word for describing
the degree of quality of Rheem products and service, is the vernacular word for faeces.
So, I recommend gettting a quality water heater, which means, not a Rheem water heater, or,
any brand of water heater that is manufactured by Rheem, the criminal organisation that
manufactures and supplies products of unmerchantable quality, that are unfit for purpose.
Weather Underground
The Weather Underground (not the 1970's terrorist organisation, that blew things and people up)
provides local weather observations and forecasts, using a network of
privately owned (Personal) Weather Stations.
For examples, see
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/IWESTERN754
and
Weather Underground - Wundermap - Armadale Western Australia
and, with the second one; the Wundermap, zoom in, until the map shows about 5km in each direction,
around you, and, on the right hand side of the screen, select "Temperature / Wind",
and wait about 30seconds, until the local weatherstations, showing temperature and wind direction
(the lines from the circles, point to the direction from which the wind is coming),
appear on the screen. When the numbers disappear, and then reappear, the observations are being refreshed.
A smartphone application for the Weather Underground, is also available for Android smartphones, and,
with a GPS facility enabled in the smartphone, it can provide weather observations and forecasts from
the closest weather station to wherever your smartphone is located.
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