Re: Aircon for a Bedroom?

This heat/humidity is getting to me!

> > I have been thinking about putting some form of Air conditioning > just in the bedroom so at least I can have somewhere cool to > sleep. It's not a big room, 4m x 3.1m but on the south facing > corner of a bungalow. > > Any recommendations whether to go for a portable unit (they all > seem to need a hose hanging out the window which seems to defeat > the object) or a 'built in' solution with outside/inside units?

The hose is to dump the waste hot air. If you exhausted this into the room, well, that tends to defeat the purpose.

Ideally, you should make up a close-fitting frame to fit inside the window, with either polythene, or even acrylic or polystyrene sheet, with a hole for the hose to go down. This will significantly reduce air leaks.

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Ian Stirling
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You can get portable units with an outside air handling unit too, although they are more expensive. I use one in France when it gets too hot. There is a self-sealing umbilical that will pass through a 50mm hole, although I usually just stick it outside the ground-floor window, leaving a small gap.

Whatever you choose, the room unit will have a fan running constantly and that may well be too noisy for a bedroom. I just chill the bedroom down as much as I can, then turn it off overnight. Usually that works, even in a Mediterranean summer. The next house will have a central unit, feeding chilled air to each room though ducting.

Colin Bignell

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nightjar

Some portable types as sold by DIY stores do have a thin rectangular outlet to which a piece of foam fits over so that the window can be shut to some extent and the foam fills the gap. If you intend to sleep with it running, then a cheap portable is not a good choice because they have noisy fans and compressor in a plastic case. For a quiet unit, you would have to get a split system or have the cool air ducted to your room.

Dave

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logized

We do all that.

We still have aircon.

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Huge

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The unit you bought is not very powerful (though it is good value). Homebase do one about twice the power for £150 this summer. I bought a slightly more powerful unit again for £250 and other than it sounding like a bus engine, I'm happy. Aircon in the US is very much cheaper than in the UK - yes we are ripped off but it is coming down in price. My unit is pretty powerful (12000btu) and cools the room to about 16 degrees which is lovely and cool. It does tend to suffer from the internal drip tray filling up sometimes. For a bedroom I'd recommend a split unit - I'm considering one now I have the portable as I love the cool air, but the noise is a bit annoying (though less annoying than unbearable heat!). I'd almost certainly try to fit the unit myself though as the air con fitters charge a lot of money on top of the already inflated prices of the units!

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Matthew Durkin

Put it in the rooms as well, so that you don't have to go in them. A win-win situation.

.andy

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Andy Hall

In article , IMM writes

Yes in laa-laa land it does, in our gaff it seems to be due to rising air and heat from the rest of the house. Theres three layers of fibre glass quilt up there already now!, dunno how much more I could get in there.

In between the joists, across that at right angles, and then another layer at right angles again!.......

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tony sayer

It doesn't in my house. Nor I suspect for other people who live in places where heat rises (I accept that this may not be the case on your planet).

heat from the house rises and collects up stairs. Heat is not lost through the ceiling as the insulation stops it. I left the loft hatch open for a while the other day and although it was unbearable in the loft the room with the hatch felt noticably cooler...

Of course, keeping doors closed could help but that seems to be incompatible with small children.

Darren

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dmc

So now is the time to wander over to Screwfix or Toolstation and buy internal door closers (just the small cylindrical ones) for internal doors which you can set to "bias" the door into the closed position. These have proved invaluable in the winter in that my blood pressure has reduced since I don't have to rant so often.

I've also purchased and fitted the beefier door closers (the ones with pistons in them I think) to our external doors and these too have been invaluable.

Mungo

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Mungo Henning

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