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I don't have an aircon, but I rigged up an alternative which is frozen cooling elements in a tray, and a fan behind it.
Dunno if it works, but the placebo makes me feel cooler.
You can get all sorts of portable aircon and even having a pipe thrown out of your window helps alot. My loft gets to 37-38...
Portable units piss electricity away. Window units are nearly twice as efficient (and cool better)
yes but if the op doesn't have an ac already, could be renting, which severely limits what kind of ac you can get.
But yes split units are of course far better efficiency. I been eyeing up next years upgrade to an external unit with heat pump and 5 internal units for the 3 bedrooms, lounge and kitchen. But given how expensive the unit is i don't even know how much would it cost to install something like that. Lucky for me the house is arranged so that only one of the internal units would be a complete pain in the arse to install. So hopefully its something I can afford to do for next summer... fingers crossed