The working from home thread: tips and advice

One of my old jobs was in an exceptionally old building where the aircon routinely failed so we had a couple of those.

They work well. Ime the issues are:

1. running the hose out of a window, you need to make a blocking board to fill the gap otherwise hot air comes back in - does that make sense?
   
2. Depending on your location there is also a risk of increased noise and pollution from the open window.
   
3. The hose is also gets a bit dirty.
   
4. It's a bit of a lump from a storage pov.
   

What are people with home offices doing?

Mostly living in the middle floor of an Edwardian house that's been chopped up into flats. We are kept cool by the flats above/below when it's hot, and kept warm by the flats above/below when it's cold.

My office has a South facing window, but a blind solves most of that problem. I have a cheapo 12" desk fan that blows into my face if I get too warm (or I've just come in from a run). Like most fans the settings are never ideal, even 1 is too much air most of the time. Today was the first time I'd turned it on because I was a bit warm (and hadn't just come in from a run).

If it ever gets really warm then the 18" standing fan gets dragged out of the cupboard.

Personally I'd want to avoid AC as much as possible for environmental/cost reasons, but then that's easy to say when I haven't reached the point where I'm melting.

(Reminds me, still need to set up zigbee2mqtt to log the temps around the flat.)

I had something similar in Spain. It worked good but was incredibly loud. I gave it away as I adjusted to the heat and that was just easier. Hugo captured it well.
Are you closing blinds to keep sun out?

Noisy. Difficult to set up as you need a good seal around the exhaust hose and window or whatever. But they work if you can set them up well.

As if us plebs can afford to motorise the moving of air.

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