Owning your own home

No problem. When they work well they are amazing. PM me if you want any independent advice.

Don't lean!

Whether or not that's technically air-con, I've no idea.

We obviously need @Tijmen to set up a straw poll for this.

Could do. Trouble is, I think there's only one person who cares. And it's not me!

Yeah, whatever. You talk the talk but don't walk the walk.

Whatever it is I've done or said which has upset you, I am very sorry. All I was trying to do was recommend something to @Howard to cool his home. If I've said anything which you found offensive or objectionable, then I apologise for that unreservedly.

Wow, brutal times in the homeownersexual thread...

Don’t worry it’s all cool now

But noisy and there's a hose out the window?

Sorry can’t hear you?!

Lol.

What a hill to choose to die on.

It sounds like a crying shame this company is going into administration.

Air con is srz bznzz.

And for povs- I have a boy waving an ostrich feather fan standing in the corner of every room.

My regs also prohibit the use of a pianola or gramophone after 10pm at night. It states nothing about a massive fuck off gabber PA though

You’ve got a floor standing monoblock unit, we borrowed one from the engineer when the split unit in the study broke down for a couple of days. It worked fine in our domestic setting. Other monoblock units which are still common outside the EU are the good old window rattlers which are marginally better as the noisy bit is outside but can rattle the windows if badly installed, when our lounge split was repaired the guy redid the window bracket for the window unit in the laundry room so that’s quiet again now. Monoblocks are real air conditioning units in that they cool the air just not as efficient as a split and won’t go down as cold as a split and often will only cool where a split will also heat. But in a domestic setting In cold countries you probably have radiators for the heat so only want cold from your air on anyway. We have our split units set at 28 in the lounge, 26 in the study and 25 in the bedroom so something that’ll chill to 20 in an empty room is plenty cold enough for a normal home. Unless you live on a server farm. Also, while splits will heat, it’s hot air heating so shit for the two weeks of the year it’s needed in HK compared to a couple of cheap oil rads on wheels.

@Howard if you are cooped up inside, consider a dehumidifier as well, dry hot air is more bearable than humid mild air.

Cheers. Been banging the dehumidifier drum for years now - should be mandatory for flats really especially if they’ve been converted to double glazing.

One of the things air conditioning does is remove moisture from the air so you would get that from any AC anyway.

*Not an HVAC engineer but from a place of perma-aircon due to stupid levels of heat and humidity. Lawsuits to the usual address please.

They do, but they’re damned expensive to run compared to a dehumidifier. We run aircon in the rooms were in and dehumidifiers in the rooms were not in.

Lawsuits to the usual address please.

ahem

Dammits?

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Double glazing businesses don’t often require a global pandemic to phoenix, seems to be standard operating for them as in invalidates all the warranties and they just start up all over again...

I couldn't live without aircon out here, we were in a maisonette for nearly two years with only aircon in the bedroom... I remember we had the hottest night on record as I was trying to watch the football in the lounge with two huge fans 18 inches away from either side of my face... Awful... I went to bed, I could feel myself passing out...

In other electrical news, we replaced the ceiling fan in the front room... The motor in the old one was knackered, new one is ace... Getting a few downlights in the kitchen next week, getting a bit fed up of not being able to see what's on my plate...

Oh, and our garage is getting built as soon as we can find someone who wants to do the job... Strange place this, it seems most tradesmen are just too busy to take on work...

Going back slightly to the leasehold tribunal system, we just got the attached from Tribunal in London regarding one of our cases:

"This office is closed due to coronavirus. Unless urgent (see below) no action will be taken on your email for the time being. Please do not email us again until you hear from us (this may not be for 6 weeks, or longer).
If delayed action would seriously endanger the health and safety of any person, please send a further email marked URGENT HEALTH & SAFETY ISSUE in the subject line. The email will then be looked at and you will get a response if a Tribunal Judge considers it is necessary.
Otherwise, please consider the Guidance for Users on this link, for further details about how the Property Chamber will handle cases during the coronavirus pandemic: https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020_03_19_FtT-Property-GUIDANCE-FOR-USERS-DURING-COVID-19-PANDEMIC.pdf"

So don't expect a quick response if anyone elects to go down the FTT route for dispute resolution.