Air con - Narrow room unit or ceiling mounted?

[595Heaven]

Seriously considering getting aircon fitted as the last few days (and the last heatwave) have been unbearable for us, and for the dog.

Looking at a split unit with a vent into the lounge/ dining area and the main bedroom above.

The main bedroom has a dormer at the front and two internal walls, and the only other external wall has a chimney breast and a built in wardrobe along its length. This leaves only a small area of external wall space, which has the dormer starting at roof height sloping down.

My not to scale sketch:



At roof height there is c. 20cm between the chimney breast and the start of the dormer slope. There is a tall chest of drawers in the gap so not a huge amount of wall exposed at all.

I can't find a narrow wall mounted aircon unit that would fit and not have its airflow obstructed by the drawers.

Only other way I can think of is to have some sort of ceiling mounted unit fed from the outside unit. The only things I can find are the large square 'cassette' units used on shops / offices.

Any ideas?

[kambites]

If there's an accessible loft above the bedroom, you could mount the unit on an internal wall and run the pipework up into the loft, along to the eves/gable end, then down to the external unit? You can also get narrow ceiling cassettes like this:

Edited by kambites on Friday 10th July 09:29

[595Heaven]

Thanks - didn't think of running the pipes and cables down the walls to the unit!

I think that image you added is the Samsung Windfree unit which I've just been looking at. That might be a neater solution for the bedroom.

https://samsung-climatesolutions.com/gb/b2c/produc...

[thecrow]

We have one of these in the loft which feeds the bedroom below.

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You do need to be able to access it for servicing but all you see in the room are two square vents in the ceiling.

We also have wall mounted units elsewhere and they work quite differently. The ducted unit blows much more gently which is nice for sleeping but means in practice we leave it running 24/7. The wall units can cool a room quickly which I find the ducted can’t, so if you forget to turn it on, or want to change the temperature quickly, wall mount would be better in my opinion.