Graham Sutherland / Polynomialliving on a humid island where all the houses are spec'd for surviving 1970s winters sure is fun at 30°C.
air conditioning? central air? ventilation ducts? heat rejection? lmao nah we don't need any of that. brick and fiberglass wool all the way. keep every last BTU locked up nice and tight. 🫠
I'm still super mad at whoever's driving the lack of dual hose portable air conditioning units here. they're all the single hose kind, super inefficient. if you want a dual hose unit you have to import one from the US and whack a huge lump of a transformer on it to feed it 110V, total cost pushing £2000. or mod a single hose unit but that's a pain in the ass and pretty ugly.
jaseg@gsuberland Over here in DE you can get the unit linked below for about 1 k€ and I've heard people are happy with them. Maybe getting one of those to where you live would be more affordable, at least it's 240 V.
https://www.midea.com/de/klimatisieren-heizen/portasplit/produktinfos.PortaSplit
@jaseg yeah, super expensive compared to what you can get here. a single hose unit typically costs £250-500.
@gsuberland yup. They're about the same price in € over here. The crazy bit is that you can get a pre-loaded split kit for about the same price as a single-hose unit with the same power rating, so I don't quite get why they sell those so expensive.
Lunaphied@jaseg @gsuberland split kit?
@Lunaphied I don't know what the proper name for these is. I mean these DIY kits where they sell you a split AC with coolant hoses with quick connect fittings pre-attached, and with the unit already pre-charged with coolant from the factory so you can connect it yourself once.
@jaseg ahhh. shame that those really don't matter if you don't own the property (unless I'm unaware of something). the problem with AC is that to do it right and most efficiently you need to retrofit the building itself which means you'd have to get the landlords or the other tenants to agree with the cost increases and everyone still seems to view having a comfortable temperature as a luxury