how do you cool down in the summer in your country? what's the biggest scam?
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how do you cool down in the summer in your country? what's the biggest scam?
how do you cool down in the summer in your country? what's the biggest scam?
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Central air in America. I have no problems with it, always had it, but i am sure some yuropoor is going to say its dogshit compared whatever poorgay cope they have.
>he gets preemptively defensive about someone pointing out he might be wrong
turbo cope, super cringe, mega dumbass, asap kys
Central air for home and dual hose portable ac for garage
We have those split air conditioners, which are really just air circulators connected to an outside heat pump. Everyone's been shilling them recently, and we've had them for a while, but they use a shit ton of electricity still so I don't see the point.
>biggest scam?
Roof fans, vertical fans.
>Everyone's been shilling them recently
numales discovered they're used outside of the US, which automatically means they're better than anything the US has.
little did they know its because they work well with shoebox houses that dont have and cant be retrofitted with ductwork
>shitton of electricity
You must've bought some garbo unit.
I use my two Mitsubishi ACs year round - heating in winter and cooling in summer and they usually add between 10% and 20% to my electricity bill, depending on how hot/cold it is outside.
A mini split is basically just an AC that works in both directions, i.e., it can either move inside heat outside or move outside heat inside. In the summer they aren't going to be any more efficient than a good AC, but in the winter they cost less than electric heating because it's more efficient to move heat than to create it using electrical resistance.
They cost less than electrical space heaters yes.. but not conventional gas.
>cost less than electric heating because it's more efficient to move heat than to create it using electrical resistance.
Wait so like, reverse AC? WHAT WIZARDRY IS THIS?
An AC is a heat pump. It moves heat from one place (inside) to another (outside). But there's no reason you can't do the reverse.
Stop being pedantic. You know what I mean. If your goal is to make an area warmer, a heat pump uses less energy than resistive heating to do it.
>it's more efficient to move heat than to create it using electrical resistance.
the frick? the resistance is the "wasted" energy, its literally converting all the energy heat. it can't be more efficient
The advertised kW cooling/heating values are the heat moved, not the power consumption.
A good 5kW cooler only uses about 1.2kW electricity.
one split unit for each room
also, wondering if I can hook up an extra "internal unit" or whatever to the compressor outside
>one split unit for each room
that's how we have it too. It is more energy use compared to a single central unit but it cools the room better and we have enough solar panels to more than offset the use.
I just open my window. Air conditioning is for the weak
how hot do summers get in your country?
>90° outside
>open window
>now 90° inside too
thanks window
>90°
>goes outside
>all your proteins immediately denature
>most of ypur water evaporates in a few seconds
why do you live in literal hell?
>hurr I don't know what Fahrenheit is
you know what anon meant u lil shit
Yeah, I do. Still doesn't change my point that if a place is too hot to go outside in, it's not a place you should live. Humans are best suited to a temperature of 28°C. At that temperature, our normal metabolism doesn't have to do any extra work to regulate body temp. This is without clothes, of course.
Living in a place that regularly gets warmer than that is just asking for trouble.
at least half of america gets hotter than that
im in ohio and was 90 degrees today
There is a difference between getting hotter than that for 1--2 months and it being that hot for over half the year. Places like Arizona being inhabited is an affront to God.
I 'm not him, but I do this
mid-90s F, so about 35C or so
>>>most of ypur water evaporates in a few seconds
I once visited Death Valley National Park in late August. It was about 120-125F there. And it was a lot more pleasant than midwestern summers. (I shudder to think of southern ones...) because it was absolutely bone fricking dry, Like, negative ten percent humidity. You had to drink a lot of water but you didn't fricking realize you were sweating it back out, because it evaporated immediately.
The desert southwest is fricking easy mode.
100F is definitely much more bearable in San Bernardino than Orlando that’s why even shitty homes in Southern California cost more than good homes in Florida
Sweden i only open a window on both sides of the house and let the rain cool down my house
I take of my shirt
based
cause im fricking broke
Those portable ones are a scam
Nothing like a 20 year old window ac blowing cold air straight into your fricking head
are evaporative/swamp coolers a meme? how dry does it have to be for them to be worthwhile?
they are a meme. they either straight up don't work or make your room humid, which makes it hotter. also uyou need to pour in water manually and it becomes moldy after some time
They work where they are supposed to be used.
The additional humidity actually aids in room comfort when it's 10-20% relative humidity outside and you can get it to a more normal 50%
The problem is they only have a very select few aeras they work, it has to be an arid environment. They are an absolutely no go anywhere else.
my area is usually at about 60% humidity on the warmest july/august days, is that too much?
Way too much, swamp coolers are for living out in the fricking desert where there's no water in the air.
>live in a desert
>waste water on some fooly cooly sóy box
They don't do much in >40% humidity and more or less useless in 60% and above
Do you live in the desert?
If not they are a meme.
See
I live in Arizona. They add water to the air which doesn't cool it down at all and makes you feel uncomfortable. Like it brings the temperature down to like 75-80F in your house but it's really uncomfortable. With my window ac it's like 78F and it feels colder than 70F with humidity in the air.
you're a pussy. man up and savor the flavor, you'll be old and feeble soon enough. then you will have an excuse to use your precious machines. until then try living like a man rather than like a bug under a rotting log
spoken like a true suburbs kid
This. 100+ in the desert is so much better than 90 in Houston because humidity makes the heat so much worse. Even Kuwait is about as uncomfortable as Houston.
I just moved here and I'm being told it is nearly monsoon season. Tf kind of desert is this
A/C at work but the guy the landlord hired to fix the A/C at home didn't show, so for now just blackout curtains and fans.
It usually rains every night with lots of lightning and thunder. You're in for a real treat. Ever see ball lightning? You're about to. But the rain doesn't last, it'll b***h and hiccup but we're talking like 2 inches of rain every 3 days. It's just going to get extremely windy. Close your shutters when they start. Check your shoes before putting them on and always turn on the light in the bathroom or you might get stung by a scorpion. It doesn't hurt as bad as you think it would so much as it just fricking lingers and throbs. Take an aspirin and mush it up in water and apply to the bump.
Buy a bunch of these
Bell + Howell Ultrasonic Pest Repeller Home Kit (Pack of 4), Ultrasonic Pest Repeller, Pest Repellent for Home, Bedroom, Office, Kitchen, Warehouse, Hotel, Safe for Human and Pet https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008653COM/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_BEVS452M7B20V97JEP4N?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Plug them in every room.
Running my ac with these will keep it dry enough that I don't really have any issues. The sprays wash away. Just get one of these for every room. Replace them every couple of years or so.
Frick. They come in the house when it rains? I have made a terrible mistake. But thank you for the warning and all the tips.
I live in 40c summers and I have to say the Evaporative Cooler is the absolute biggest scam out of anything. A generic fan is tiers above an evaporative cooler
Evaporative cooling not only is fricking terrible, but insists on a stupid amount of labour for it to be usable, it really expects you to replace the non-intuitive-to-replace tank with ice cold filtered water and frozen ice packs every time you use it, they dont even make the room cooler.
In fact, if its hot enough to want to cool the room down, and you have to leave any part of the window open OR decide to ignore that advice, the evaporative cooler will just simply make your room so humid that you will feel like the room is a higher temperature than it already was if you had just not turned anything on
Don't fricking buy an evaporative cooler
true for the most part unless you live in a really arid country. where do you live?
Australia
I thought Australia was arid as frick?
99% of the population lives on the coast
i'm not using evaporative cooling the the middle of a desert
fair enough lol, the only imagine I really have of your country is this kino
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Minisplit AC in my apartment
I turn it on once inside temp passes 22C
I just endure.
Window and Portable air conditioners are a fricking scam, don't buy them. I lived in hawaii for about 3 years and none of those places have central air. I had both a portable and window a/c and they didn't do shit except raise my electric bill.
you lived in places with dogshit insulation then, fricking moron
I amm posting from hawaii, been here since 2011. have a portable b/c we aren't allowed to have units sticking out the window, it cools the place fine but its a litte loud for such a small space.
>bought cheapest one
>why isn't it cooling 3x beyond its capacity
I like the heat, I don't need to cool down
Cassette air conditioner sounds good for my bedroom
split ac by far the most popular here in finland, but the houses here are generally very well insulated so it makes sense. portables probably the only other relatively common choice for apartment buildings without central ac i guess.
i open 2 windows have put up fans, intake and exhaust
fresh breeze coming through
I open windows, use ceiling fans and have shade trees around my house. Not falling for the air conditioning israelite.
air coolers are the biggest scam
i think window, you can put a fan in there if its broken or something but it looks ugly outside.
if you have extra money go for split.
if you a big house go for central
I keep my underwear in the freezer and change it once every 30 minutes
i have a portable ac for the few hot days in summer we have when its over 35c outside
>all these people calling ACs scams
didn't know it was SEAmonkey hour on IQfy
>implying that SEAmonkeys ever turn on the AC
>"sir it is broken sir"
I acclimate to both hot and cold. takes a week or two.
I never want to be that homosexual running back and forth between the AC in the car and the AC inside.
>what's the biggest scam?
As an American?
Central
Central HVAC is amazing you don't know what you're talking about.
Air is constantly circulated throughout the house instead of just recirculating the same stale air in your fricking room.
There is nothing wrong with central ACs in theory
The problem is most central AC systems installed in the US have dogshit efficiency from the start and it gets way worse if your ductwork is ever compromised because then you're just pissing away your cold air. Of course, HVAC techs install the cheapest spiral mylar bullshit because they want to come back to redo it in ten years to get more money.
I understand why people from other countries like the idea of a central AC but they don't understand how bad the implementation is for alot of not most installations.
Sure you yourself can do or redo the AC installation and get a more efficient system but in my opinion I'd rather have Mini splits, they are much easier to install/service yourself and it's much cheaper to get higher efficiency units. If I need air circulation between rooms I'd just use transfer fans
Split for smaller rooms while central for the main apartment
Works fine for SEAmonkey weather
summer?
Frick you, anon.
Oh believe me, you don't want to be here
Hope you have some damn good blackout curtains.
Oh no wait I'm moronic and read that backwards, didn't i
I thought you were being sarcastic
Nope, just an idiot.
Where are you Anon?
Portable AC, it only gets really hot (more than 28°C) a few days in December and January so it isn't really needed.
You must live in southern Australia.
Not really
I got this at Walmart for $155.88
Biggest scam is swamp coolers. Even out in Arizona. I would rather be dry and drink my water than sit and be sticky and itchy. Humidity makes me sweat more than heat. Like it hit 99F today, yesterday it was 101F but like it's a dry heat. You're not sweating your ass off. By the time I'm in bed under my blankets I'm just comfortable.
>how do you cool down in the summer in your country?
Not an issue.
I have trouble warming up, though.
ah, a fellow prariebro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-coupled_heat_exchanger
Central Air of course
In America of course
Have two separate units one for upstairs one for the rest of the house
Its nice
Window units in previous apartments always sucked ass
how come so many americans have central air systems and us scandis sweat and suffer their way through summers with shitty fans? proper airconditioning here is weirdly unusual
Americans are fat and lazy, entirely preoccupied with gratification. might as well hope in a sensory deprivation tank with a gram of fentynal up your ass. Americans are so averse to feeling anything I truly get amazed on how they even will themselves out the door each day.
God they will just whine and complain any time they have to go outside. AC in their car, 3 liter soda for their scooter ride, 2 hamburgers on the way to the toilet. Everything is too hot or too cold or not salty enough not sweet enough. I have actually heard an American tell me they don't like the taste of water.
>I have actually heard an American tell me they don't like the taste of water.
Have you seen the Flint crisis? Most of their water is of horrendous quality. Coke may be liquid diabetes but at least McDonald's filters their fountain water.
I don't live anywhere near Flint, but even our "cleanest" water is usually filled with either frick loads of chlorine and fluoride, or full of heavy metals that require like 3 filters to make it drinkable. It's why so many get bottled water, well water, or Brita filters. Personally my water is so iron heavy, it leaves brown rings around the tub if I don't clean it once a week.
My uncle had disgusting sulfur water. Smelled liked shit and you didn't feel clean even after a shower. Also had iron in it that would react with my skin and discolor it. Fricking gross
yeah. They make filters that will filter the water from the source on its way to your home, then another filter to attach to your sink/shower head that filters it once again before it actually comes out. They're a pain to install and have to be replaced like 4 times a year and most people don't bother
Where the frick do you live? I see people on here in the US complain about electricity prices, water quality, cost of living, etc. I live near a small to medium size city, the tap water is actually good enough quality that it's actually sold as a well recognized brand of bottled water and a local factory that requires UPW doesn't really need to do anything other than dechlorination. My electricity is $0.04/kWh and I pay $50/month for gigabit fiber. Like what the frick is going on with the rest of the country?
Not him, but I once worked in Wichita KS on a contract job and when me and the other guys on the job got to the apartment the company rented for us. The person at the desk asked if we were from around there and we said no, then she told us not to drink the tap water and to buy bottled water or a good filter.
I work in water purification (in TX). The Chlorine and Fluoride aren't bad. It's everything else that you don't even know about that's scary.
>The Chlorine and Fluoride aren't bad
honestly it's the fact that my water smells like a public pool there's so much chlorine in it.
>I work in water purification (in TX).
>It's everything else that you don't even know about that's scary.
Do you mean the lead in the water that causes nutjobs to shoot up schools?
>it's everything else that you don't even know about that's scary
>>>>>>>
.md not expected at this time!
>typical EU trash OBSESSED with Americans
>What Americans do, say, think, believe
Imagine living in such an irrelevant country that your only hobby is hating on those better than you lmao.
Go drink more corn syrup amerifatty
Yes I'm fat
Yes I slurp corn syrup daily
Yes I use aircons
Yes I use imperial units
Yes you will seethe
Dilate Eurotroony
This is how mad you get when other people can afford AC and your 500 year old house can't be retrofitted with a single duct without making it cyberpunk levels of ugly or causing mold, rodent infestations, and a collapse.
Because so many americans are as white as you sven, and yet the average temperature is 7 celsimajigs higher. Isn't the average summer in malmo 71 degrees frenchfryheight?
As a nation and culturally you're moronic. Nobodies doing it so I guess that means nobody should keep doing it even if it improves your life tenfold.
Because Americans don't pretend that living with a myriad of easily solvable problems makes them a better person.
>scandis sweat and suffer their way through summers
Kek come on your hottest weather would be a welcome reprieve from the normal summers where I live. We have to keep cooling shelters open here during the summer or old and or homeless people will literally drop dead in the streets.
Because summers in Scandinavia don't regularly hit 95°F (35°C). In places in the US that don't (like the Pacific North West) central A/C is also uncommon.
I live in a basement, sun only gets in one hour per day, if the weather is nice.
I do not have such problems
Open your window and wedge in a box fan so that it blows room air outside and sucks in air from the rest of the house. Let other people deal with the heat.
i use a window unit when it gets really bad (105+)
otherwise just drink cold water
Window AC unit with my windows and bedroom door gaps sealed as best I can, power saver mode set. Keeps my room at a cool 68F with minimal loss so long as I keep my door shut.
A shitty fan. Thank god we only have at most two months of actual heat here.
I open the windows in the evening and lower the blinds during the day.
>how do you cool down in the summer in your country?
a ceiling fan and a VB stubby
>what's the biggest scam?
air conditioning
i live in far north QLD where room temperature is 30 degrees C (95~ish F). frick your aircon, grow some balls and let them sag, your body did a perfectly fine job of regulating temperature before you fricked it with microclimates and conditioning. too hot indoors? go outside. need to work inside? we have this wonderful marvel of engineering called the QUEENSLANDER, designed to self cool from air underneath and windows all around.
americans are pussies.
>taking pride in being a slave to the elements
lol. lmao.
The cold is also for pussies there will be NO heating for me. I dont care if I have to put on 50 kilos of clothing and blankets I will NOT let the big heating israelite heat my home or my car!!
just buy a decently cheap fan or a box fan. or splurge a bit more and get a vertical fan. dysons are rip-offs as seen in video below. though, i personally think ceiling fans are the goat. seems to be good enough for 3rd worldies.
This van is way too wide to fit in one lane of traffic and would need a slide out section to have that kind of living space.
anon, it's fine. The maximum vehicle width is 2.4m. I wouldn't consider this to be over 2.4m
>britgay
>portable AC, single hose
>bought for £250 last year
it turns my 40C room into a 25C room during the hottest days, im happy with it
>vrr?
kek
>40C
>In Britain
I'm going to call BS. It never gets very hot or cold in Britain.
$12 box fan. Works perfect.
I cool my 1400sqft house with a 300sqft window air conditioner. House is shaded by trees. Costs me around $15 a month.
>how do you cool down in the summer in your country?
heat pump
what's the biggest scam?
swamp coolers
Swamp coolers work fricking awesome if your humidity is below 10-12%
>what's the biggest scam?
The biggest scam with regards to air conditioning is moving from R-22 to R-410a or some other "ozone friendly" refrigerant.
R-22 had far better thermal properties than any of the modern variants offered as its replacement, and operated at lower pressures. This means your A/C would cool better and use less electricity. Modern A/Cs running R-410a require high pressure compressors that use substantially more electricity AND the cooling performance is noticeably inferior.
The lie, that there is an ozone layer with a hole in it, is fully enviro-wacko propaganda that has no basis in reality. It's as devoid of legitimacy as "global warming" and/or "climate change"... but the boogeyman is used as justification to make your life suck just a little bit more.
Central + Mini split is top tier comfy. My office and master bedroom share a mini split. I can set the house to like 75F while my office or bedroom are a nice 68F
central air currently, had window AC before when i was in a studio
both worked, window AC was annoying because i had to buy cheap curtains and cut them to length to keep sunlight out but not block the blower
If air is hotter than inside, windows closed
Light fan in the room gives enough air flow.
I think you know the greatest and best possible way to do it bro. And it should be illegal to use any other method bro
Take cold showers
biggest scam is portable air conditioners with only one hose because they suck back in the air they just shot out for cooling. more units would add a second hose if consumers would take 10 fricking minutes to research and understand how the product works and why they should demand one. instead everyone thinks single hose is better because it only needs one hose. fricking get it together consumers
>what's the biggest scam?
The biggest scam are Carrier ducted machines. They leak gas even when new. They stop when it is most hot outside. What an absolute joke of burger engineering.
My boomer parents wasted more than 6k on botched repairs. They even laid out new pipes because the technicians couldnt find anything bad in the units and suspected "micro-holes". Until they replaced the Carrier shit with Japanese machines, reusing the (new) pipes and the old gas. Zero problems.
Fricking israelite burgers.
small window units in every room, small apartment
turning them all on low and you have the entire place pretty cool at the cost of the electricity bill but it's worth it since i'm a wimp and pass out in high humidity/heat
I live in England, just open a window
Everytime I see you people talking about air conditioners like you know anything about it by watching a couple youtube videos I want to blow my brains out.
It's one thing to be ignorant, it's another to say with confidence that minisplits are better than central cause minisplits are heatpumps, implying central heating and air doesn't have that ability.
Also unless your shit is really old, you're not just hearing electrically. Every house that has been built or has had its a/c changed in the last 20 years is a fricking heat pump unless you have gas.
Idk why this shit bugs me so much.
>Every house that has been built or has had its a/c changed in the last 20 years is a fricking heat pump unless you have gas.
Not in all aeras
Some of the recent construction in these cookie cutter suburbs I've seen all get non-heat pump garbage Goodmans
Most houses I've seen that have had a new AC have gotten heat pumps but the contractors doing new houses here just don't give a shit unless someone specifies.
I have 3 app controlled floorfans, with batteries. On really bad days, all 3 are on me creating a triangle airflow.
AC isn't needed with 10ft+ ceilings.
Open attic hatch at night for cool air to come in, close it in the morning. It's like slow release ac
My mother got me a bedjet a while back and it's been great for me so far this summer.
Only issue I had was my height, I try my best not to kick the nozzle at the foot of the bed.
Central AC in Arizona.
Use as efficient things as possible.
Don't use the oven until the Sun goes all the way down. Try not to use it at all.
Take a shower with as cool of water as you can for like 10+ minutes.
Fans help a lot.
Once you live here long enough, you just acclimate to it being over 100f well into January. It cools off a bit down to the 60s-70s in February but then it just goes right back up. We actually got pretty chilly here last winter, got down to 47F one day. I'm used to it freezing at night but this was strange for Phoenix. Lotion is your best friend. Lotion will cool you off better then you could ever imagine. I'm using my fan right now, my window ac is off. It gives me a sore throat. If I'm not sweating I'm happy. I don't like to shiver. I moved out here for college and sort of just stayed.
I tried portable AC units for a few years.
Major flaws:
1) Unless you buy the 350+ dollar ones, that shit ain't gonna cool your room in 90+ degree weather.
2) it caused major humidity problems in my room to the point that my overhead globed light filled with water, my closet got everything moldy
3) your window is basically open so whatever you say or do could be heard easily
4) small insects like gnats get into your room dont stop.
your portable ac will be filled with that shit in certain locations
Anyways I decided to just get an A/C guy to come fix my central air unit and it only cost me 500 dollars and now I am living winter all year long