Portable air conditioning?
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No matter what we do we can’t get our bedroom below 22-23 most nights. We have a newborn baby and I’m very conscious that I don’t want her to overheat and we need to be able to sleep when at all possible too. I’m sorely tempted to get an air conditioning unit that will cool the room but I don’t know where to start. Is it possible to get something for under £400-£500 which won’t be a waste of money?
dmsims said:
Not sure if you are serious, I was a baby in Singapore, Cyprus etc and am still alive
Most portables are very noisy, get a split
Fair enough but we are still finding our feet and recent nights have been uncomfortably stuffy. It would be nice to feel we had some control over the room temperature Most portables are very noisy, get a split
Yeah cheap one boxers make a right old din, you're looking at several grand plus if you want quiet.
Tried a ceiling fan? We have em in most rooms, they take the edge off the typical stuffiness most of suburban London seems to suffer from without costing too much to buy or run, and are not as noisy or distracting as a pedestal fan, never understood why they're not more popular TBH.
Tried a ceiling fan? We have em in most rooms, they take the edge off the typical stuffiness most of suburban London seems to suffer from without costing too much to buy or run, and are not as noisy or distracting as a pedestal fan, never understood why they're not more popular TBH.
I've just been looking into getting a portable vented machine
The problem with 'portable'. Is you still need to vent it out of a sealed window. You can't just pick it up and plonk it in another room?
That's my impression anyway from browsing reveiws.
I'm assuming the cheaper ventless ones for 100 quid odd, don't work.
The problem with 'portable'. Is you still need to vent it out of a sealed window. You can't just pick it up and plonk it in another room?
That's my impression anyway from browsing reveiws.
I'm assuming the cheaper ventless ones for 100 quid odd, don't work.
We just stick the hose out of a window and pull the curtains around it - upstairs of our house gets to typically 28C in current weather, but once it's gone dark it's a lot cooler outside so it's not like you're sucking in more hot air. Obviously there's a bit of a humifity disadvantage.
Ours blasts a horizontal jet of cold air out of the front so it's like using a fan - except the air is cold.
It's very noisy, and worth bearing in mind that even if it cools the room to whatever temp you've set, only the compressor, which is more of a low, 'heavier' tone, stops. The main fan, which is most of the noise, continues to run.
If you use one all night you wake up feeling like you do after a sleep on a plane.
Ours blasts a horizontal jet of cold air out of the front so it's like using a fan - except the air is cold.
It's very noisy, and worth bearing in mind that even if it cools the room to whatever temp you've set, only the compressor, which is more of a low, 'heavier' tone, stops. The main fan, which is most of the noise, continues to run.
If you use one all night you wake up feeling like you do after a sleep on a plane.
24lemons said:
No matter what we do we can’t get our bedroom below 22-23 most nights. We have a newborn baby and I’m very conscious that I don’t want her to overheat and we need to be able to sleep when at all possible too. I’m sorely tempted to get an air conditioning unit that will cool the room but I don’t know where to start. Is it possible to get something for under £400-£500 which won’t be a waste of money?
If you are DIY capable you can get a split for that money. A portable for £300 will do the job but are noisy. Ventless ones are pointless.We have 2 portables at home, one in our room and one in the lads. In this weather, they’ll take it from 29-30° down to 21° easily. The rooms are about 4m x 5m ish. The venting means they can only be placed in one area and, despite being called portable, they’re really not! Other than that, I wouldn’t be without them now.
You can pick them up anywhere you’d expect (B&Q, Amazon etc), but I imagine they’ll be in short supply at the moment for obvious reasons.
(Ps - The noise just becomes white noise after 10 minutes!)
You can pick them up anywhere you’d expect (B&Q, Amazon etc), but I imagine they’ll be in short supply at the moment for obvious reasons.
(Ps - The noise just becomes white noise after 10 minutes!)
We’ve had a 2kw portable from B&Q for years it’s Noisy but pretty capable. It’ll drop a 28 degree room to around 20 degrees in a few hours - as has been mentioned close the curtains around the exhaust hose and keep the room door closed.
We’re finally installing a split system upstairs and also in our garden room which hopefully will be a lot less hassle to set up and use.
We’re finally installing a split system upstairs and also in our garden room which hopefully will be a lot less hassle to set up and use.
T5GRF said:
We’ve had a 2kw portable from B&Q for years it’s Noisy but pretty capable. It’ll drop a 28 degree room to around 20 degrees in a few hours - as has been mentioned close the curtains around the exhaust hose and keep the room door closed.
We’re finally installing a split system upstairs and also in our garden room which hopefully will be a lot less hassle to set up and use.
If it takes ‘a few hours’ to drop from 28 to 20, that really isn’t very capable. When you get the split fitted you will find it can do that in 20-30 minutes, and make about 1/10 of the noise whilst doing it. No buggering about with tubes out the window, and rearranging curtains around it either. No comparison to be honest.We’re finally installing a split system upstairs and also in our garden room which hopefully will be a lot less hassle to set up and use.
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