Does anyone have air conditioning in their home?

[Hairbrush123]

How much does it cost to run? How have you installed it? How much did the unit cost? Thanks!

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We installed an air source heat pump (Daikin) in part of our house, and it's either a heater or an air conditioner. During the hot weather it was a blissful refuge when the children came home from school! Not sure how much it costs to run as an air conditioner as such, but we don't use it much for that. It works out well as a heater because we often heat up the rooms overnight on cheap rate electricity and then it stays warm through most of the next morning.

I've got a wall mounted aircon in my bedroom. It was £1000 installed.

I have to have a good nights sleep otherwise I feel hungover when I go to work the next day and I don't perform properly. The aircon means I get a good nights sleep.

We've got a small portable Amcor one which we can move from room to room as necessary. If I recall correctly it cost about £300, but that was in the middle of a heatwave and a distress purchase after our previous 18 year old thing gave up in a room we were trying to sleep a newborn in. You can buy them at the moment for £199 plus delivery.

It has a running power of 792W, so it costs 79.2% of whatever you pay for a kWh of electricity for each hour it runs. For comparison my fan oven is 900W and a one bar electric fire is typically 1,000W.

We use it a couple of hours on an evening maybe ten nights each summer (Manchester) so not excessively, but I'd never be without one. Like DenholmeElliot (I loved him!) says, a crappy night's sleep because of heat and humidity leaves me groggy and even dangerous for something like driving the following day.

We looked into having split level units installed for all four bedrooms, which would be manageable with one large or two smaller compressors, but many installers just weren't interested in quoting and the few that did wanted £4,000 upwards for work that didn't look particularly tidy in the domestic examples they gave.