Thursday, August 15, 2013

Portable Air Conditioner - Best For Small Homes


It is a fact that small spaces results in the limiting of space we may have for breathing. Further, it is really dreadful to be confined to such small areas and then further to tolerate those soaring hot temperatures.

The continuous sweat and headaches which you would have to encounter can be well imagined. There is a neat solution to this dilemma, which is to equip your house with a portable AC.

What is a portable air conditioner?

A portable air conditioner is a small AC which is capable of cooling small areas in a house and can be easily moved from a location to another depending on the requirements. It is lightweight so a single person can move it from a place to another. Nowadays units come pre-installed with wheels which make the movement of portable AC from one location to another just a fly.

Why get a portable unit?

One of the biggest benefits of portable AC is that it gives area specific cooling like a small room and then can be moved to other area where cooling is required. Its portability makes good investment for the persons who like in small houses on rent where permanent installations are not allowed. Moreover there is no requirement to mount it on the compressor unit. Not to emphasize, it saves lots of money which goes into buying and then installing the usual big air conditioning units.

How does a portable unit work?

Installing portable air conditioning units is not cumbersome. A supple hose is used with the AC unit which runs into the room window. This hose is connected to the venting kit which allows the hot exhausts from the unit to be expelled outside the room. The venting kit is usually four to six feet in length which is just sufficient for the portable AC to be carried to the new room which requires cooling, without the requirement to install the hose in the window of the new room.

This unit is handy and does not need any permanent fixing. Shifting it from one room to another becomes easy due to casters employed on the bottom of the unit which make the entire process hassle free...

Since the portable air conditioning unit is small in all aspects, it requires less electricity for its operation. More so since it is used to just cool a small room and not the entire house. Timer which is pre-installed in the unit can be used to set the time for which the AC will operate. Typical height of portable air conditioners available in market ranges from 24 to 34 inches with weight in the range of 55 to 70 pounds.

We can thus summarize that portable air conditioning units are most effective for achieving cooling for small homes without increasing the energy bills. The installation hassles are not there and the unit itself can be moved to any area of the house without the mechanics intervention thus saving you money.

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