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Who's in the UK and has caved in and bought air conditioning?

stanto

I picked up something like this about three years ago. No regrets.

Though I can't help but feel like I'm also adding to the climate problem.

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  • My house has hot air heating - very much a 60s thing in the UK although I'm aware it's more common on other countries. I've been tempted to see if I could modify things to blow cooled air around the house when it's really hot, but have resisted so far.

  • in reply to Fred27

    It sounds like we all have very similar systems. I can also turn a fan on manually to circulate ambient air around, and the air is pulled in from a couple of internal inputs, so a closed loop system. It doesn't seem to do much compared to opening some windows.

     If you still have the ducting and a fan for the system, then it's definitely worth trying to distribute the output of your portable aircon around.

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  • in reply to Fred27

    It sounds like we all have very similar systems. I can also turn a fan on manually to circulate ambient air around, and the air is pulled in from a couple of internal inputs, so a closed loop system. It doesn't seem to do much compared to opening some windows.

     If you still have the ducting and a fan for the system, then it's definitely worth trying to distribute the output of your portable aircon around.

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    Fred27 said:
     If you still have the ducting and a fan for the system, then it's definitely worth trying to distribute the output of your portable aircon around

    I may, depending on how much work that will take since I'm renting. Smiley

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    Fred27 said:
    It doesn't seem to do much compared to opening some windows.

    If you connect the inputs to the window vents it might Slight smile

    Isn't that mode aimed at filtration though ? I thought one of the advantages of those hot air systems beyond low latency heating, was air filtration ?

    Fred27 said:
    If you still have the ducting and a fan for the system, then it's definitely worth trying to distribute the output of your portable aircon around.

    We do that here at work in the main hall for the Summer graduation ceremonies. Hire in a big aircon unit and pipe the cold air into the hot air heating system. (Just a pity the system it doesn't reach the control room, where we quietly get roasted whilst everyone else complains of being too cold.)

    It sounds like the e14 house needs a multitude of temperature sensors (indoor and out) that can work out the temperature differences and turn on the appropriate ventilation fans, window openers, shutter/blind closers and aircon units as appropriate.

    My house is still cooling down from last week. I guess that the bricks are acting like storage heaters. Either that or there is a volcano below me.