Hope this helps someone struggling to survive the heat

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      11 days ago

      Let me fix that for you. A shocking number of Europeans have no idea how AC works.

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        10 days ago

        The northern half, basically. Down south we very well do. What a lot of people are unaware of is that an air source split costs peanuts, and lowers your heating bills like 300-400%. Yeah not 30, 300%

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          10 days ago

          300% reduction would mean you no longer pay for heating and instead get paid twice as much as you used to pay

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            9 days ago

            Don’t bring maths and shit here!

            What I actually meant to write was 300 % more efficient, 1/3 the cost.

            But yeah, it’s bad etiquette to correct strangers, especially when you are right.

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      10 days ago

      It makes the air cold. What’s there to understand?

      It makes the room cold unfortunately to make the room cold you have to whack a sodding great hole in your wall. You explain that to the landlord who doesn’t care about your comfort, but they could care immensely about the wall having a hold on it.

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        10 days ago

        It makes the air cold. What’s there to understand?

        With that logic, leaving your refrigerator door open should cool the room. But doing so would actually heat it up.

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        10 days ago

        whack a sodding great hole

        Ours have a hole about 50mm in diameter. It’s not going to bring your wall down and if you decide that you don’t need the efficient heating/cooling with minisplit-unit it’s easy enough to patch. I own the house, so I didn’t need to think nothing else than the location of the hole, but any sensible landlord would see a minisplit-unit as an increase of property value.

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          10 days ago

          A sensible landlord would recognise that yes but only if they got to keep the air conditioning system. Realistically though the tenant would probably want to take it with them when they left after all they bought it. And the landlord might not want the owners to be on them to buy it off the tenant when the tenant leaves.

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          10 days ago

          Not the type you’re thinking of. We have windows that open like doors rather than the American style guillotine things, which have always struck me as inherently unsafe, but I suppose it does have that one benefit.

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      10 days ago

      It actually does require some basic knowledge of thermodynamics. Many people think “there are space heaters, so why not space coolers?” The reality is that the heat needs to be pumped out of the room (meaning hot air needs to be vented to the outside of the building).

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      10 days ago

      What are you referring to the image? I assume it is piped out the wall to the other portion of the heat pump?