Are you looking to buy yourself a portable air conditioner? Portable a/c units are perfect for homes or areas that have no facility for fixed units or when you require cooling in different places at different times. Here are some tips to help you get the most out of your purchase:
Keep the area closed
A portable room air conditioner is meant to cool a specific enclosed area. Open plan areas will need larger cooling requirements due to the additional square footage. To get the best cooling out of a portable a/c, use it in an enclosed space and limit the amount of times that doors and windows are opened for whatever reason.
Cool the room in advance
One of the best pieces of advice anyone can give you with air condition is that you should switch air conditioners one before you need to use it. How early you switch it on will depend on how hot it can get and how much electricity you are willing to use. Some rooms that get very hot could be switched on several hours in advance of you using it so it will be able to maintain that temperature even when the outside gets much hotter.
Venting
Many believe that they cannot use a portable cooling unit due to the venting requirements. However, although window based venting kits are provided with most portable units, you can also get sliding window and ceiling based kits. These are meant for rooms that do not have windows but have other potential means of getting the venting pipes out.
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