"Huge" wrote in message
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On 2006-07-20, Fred Finisterre wrote:
Hi,

Looking for a cheap but good (for the price) aircon unit. I'm expecting
to
have to have a big pipe traling out of the window, but if that can be
avoided so much the better.

Something available on the high street would be good.

Any good/bad experiences?

Monobloc units of the type your describe are essentially useless. A
search for air conditioning threads on uk.d-i-y on Google groups
will tell you why.

(I have one - it's OK for cooling a room with little or no solar
heat gain and no computers. My office, about 4m x 4m with 4 computers
and 2 sq m of SW facing window, it cannot cope.)

-- Sure they are nowhere near as good as proper air conditioning but they
are better than fans or the self contained evaporative coolers that many
people are using

Currently the outside shade temperature is 32 C but 24 C in the office with
the unit it running on medium setting

The air temp at the front of the unit is 13.4 C so I am getting some cooling
and a flow of cool air

Tony