I've seen this suggested here a few days ago
now that I'm melting from the heat as a euro rentoid I am seriously considering it
the issue I have is that my window doesn't open enough to make the outside unit pass through, and I don't think they'll let me put anything on the service balcony (don't have access to it)
however
>main room and bathroom have air vents
>bathroom usually colder than main room
>put portasplit between main and bathroom
would this work?

>>105741728 (OP)
It would to a point, but unless you seal off that bathroom it will severely limit the cooling potential and efficiency, will heat that room up to easily over 40C

Just buy a dual hose one in that case, those are also efficient just loud as fuck

>>105742026
yeah the main issues are indeed
>need to seal the door in a way that I can still access the bathroom when I need to
>don't know if the building's vent system can cool the bathroom enough to offset the AC
I guess I'll look for a dual hose yeah
god I hate that the only window I have is a shitty vertical one that barely opens

>only double house available is inventum ac127wset
>either second hand with basically all accessories missing
>or with a 300 bucks markup
fucking hell

>>105742324
why is aircon such a difficult thing in europe even though it gets so hot?

>>105742341
long-time smugness about "not needing it" other than a few days a year (now it's multiple months) + ecotard "just open the window" garbage
and landlords not wanting to invest in AC until it gets made mandatory

How do you soundproof copper refrigerant pipes? They have some foam insulation that does fuckshit nothing.

>>105741728 (OP)
Lose weight.

>>105742401
I'm a skeleton already

>>105742324
>midea duo not sold ANYWHERE in yurop (along with all other double hosed acs)
>US importer has it for 600-700€
>go to checkout
>300-400€ delivery
fuck you

I give up searching for a double hose
any great regular portable AC that's not too hard to convert to double hose?

>>105741728 (OP)
anon, where are you?, how high is the humidity? if its low consider a swamp cooler

>>105742659
netherlands, 50-60% so unfortunately swamp coolers no worky

>>105741728 (OP)
>air vents
do you even need a second hose if you have that? I'd assume they take care of the lower pressure

>>105741728 (OP)
>goes to bathroom
>takes a shit

>>105742673
hum, anon your country is not exactly well know for having landlords reasonable, but still, you should ask them if you can put the external unit a couple of month per year
you can also freeze bottles in the kitchen and then put it in front of a vent in your room. the kitchen technically would get hotter, but still it may be an overall improvement

>>105742368
are you a brownskin?
never had any problem with local landlords, current one basically paid for entirely remodelling his loft unit, i just paid for the design

>>105742341
Homes aren't designed for it most window units won't fit for example

>>105741728 (OP)
>my window doesn't open enough
Man you're cucked, UK I assume?

But just get a regular portable air conditioner instead, so you only have to stick a hone through the window.
Yeah it's really inefficient but if you're only going to use it for a few weeks a year that's fine.

>>105743057
in my case I'm talking about landlord (companies) instead of landlords (individual)
I live in what's essentially a student studio

>>105743087
And why would they just drill a hole for a split, poorfag

Get a fan you pussy

>>105742673
The 2nd hone is to PREVENT pulling in hot outside air through air vents and any other openings/cracks.
No home is air tight so you're never going to pull a vacuum.
Amount of air blown out = amount of air sucked in.

The main problem with single hose portable units is they constantly mix in hot outside air into the room, which then has to be cooled again.
With two hoses or, even better, a split unit you can have a more or less sealed room with cool indoors air that never mixes with hot outside air.
Far more efficient but also means CO2 will build up so a little venting is still a good idea.

>>105741728 (OP)
>my window doesn't open enough to make the outside unit pass through
Wait.
Don't tell me you're one of those Bongs who have their window opening aperture size restricted by the local gubbernmint.

>>105741728 (OP)
Honestly the amount of money you spend will not be worth it, tough this summer shit out with fans and ice. Use that money to either move to a better rental with an AC or... start working on getting a house.

>>105743110
>>105743202
nah it's just how the thing was made, I'm in the netherlands

>>105741728 (OP)
>>bathroom usually colder than main room
>>put portasplit between main and bathroom
You don't get how this works.
If you put the side meant for outside in the bathroom and the part meant for inside in the main room all you'd do is extracting heat energy from your main room and literally pump it all into your bathroom which originally was cooler.
So in the end you'd end up with a bathroom at 50°C and a kinda cooler main room at best.
At worst the heat pumped in the bathroom would just sneak back into the rest of the apartment, especially if you, you know, wanna go for a shit or piss and open the door and there wouldn't be a big change apart from your electric bill getting nooked

>>105743215
There are no apartments with AC in Europe north of Italy.

>>105743241
this.
most people for some reason think an ac brings in "coolness" from outside but that's not how it works

>>105743247
...That's genuinely insane, I'm a third worlder and every single place I go to has an AC. I hope you'll get to experience it someday anon. It's insane.

>>105741728 (OP)
>rentoid

You don't have permission to use one of those. You must ask permission from your landlord and he has to ask permission from all the neighbors. Don't make the same mistake I did and waste €600 on useless shit you're not allowed to use. Those things are LOUD.

>>105743247
They are not as common as in Burgerland but I'd say at least 40% of middle Euro apartments do have AC now. I think most houses being built right now do have heat pumps since those work exceptionally well in climates with no hardcore temperature extremes.

>>105743178
the air vent is a building-wide thing, not the air vents on windows (I have those too but can close them)

>>105743241
I do get how it works
I just don't know how much the air vent could tank the heat from the AC
[spoiler]but yeah it would make the bathroom really hot[/spoiler]

>>105743116
because houses in europe/goymany aren't made out of wood.
my outer wall is 35cm over 1 feet of concrete.
you don't just "drill a hole" in that

>>105743300
except you easily can with the right tools you DIet

>>105743308
no you can't. renters cant just drill holes into walls

>>105743320
okay so dont rent little brownskin

>>105743324
if you already know that europeans rent 99% of the time why even ask "why don't they just drill a hole duuuuuuuh"?

>>105743344
NTA but that's actually a suprise
For all the European boasting about their supposed quality of life, I figured that home ownership would be part of that.

Try to top this:

>live in souterrain apartment (half-basement basically, bottom of the windows is on lawn level
>windows are south-west oriented
>noon sun is fucking cooking them
>therefore have to have shutters down almost completely all summer, turning the apartment into a dark basement. if shutters not down, the room would heat up 10 degrees in less than one hour
>insulation is 80s level so even with darkening everything out, every day with temps >30°C means around 1 degree gained every day until the apartment eventually matches outdoor temperatures
>have to keep windows closed all day or otherwise the hot ass air would heat up the room in minutes

And now the kicker

>can't keep windows open at night for the apartment to cool off a little because [REDACTED] could easily just step in
>can't keep windows open at night for the apartment to cool off a little because mice could easily chew through the fly net in the windows and get in (which had happened already and it was a bitch to locate and get the fucker out)

>basically only have a brief moment before midnight to open all windows while still awake
Bonus:
>can't air apartment out in the morning because humidity is fuck high so you'd not only BARELY get any heat out, you'd also gain tons of humid air inside

NEVER get a fucking basement apartment. Even if it seems "cooler" in summer at first.

>>105743320
I did though
Didn't ask for permission either

Gonna fix it when I move out, but nobody complained for over a year now

>>105743370
I can only talk for goymany, but goymany was always a poor peasant nation.
nobody here had every had any amount of real wealth in 2000 years besides a short period of around 20 years after Bismarck and 40 years from 1950-1990

>>105743375
the outside facing wall of my studio is about 8m2 of windows and the rest is black metal frame, oriented so that I get sun in the morning
there is no outside blinds
it's unbearable in the summer, I taped aluminum foil over most windows last summer and I'm probably going to do it again

>>105742341
Crazy windows that they're proud of acting like a Transformers doll from the 80s. They traded the ability to have a window AC for the ease of wiping the outside of the window pane while inside the house.

>>105743398
>and the rest is black metal frame

>>105743375
>>105743398
I wish there was a compact way of harvesting all that retarded excess heat energy. Solar and those sun water heating panels need absurd amounts of space which barely anyone has, especially not single bed apartment rentoids.

It makes me mad how much energy is hitting my window FOR FREE that I can't use and even have to deflect to not get cooked.

>>105743398
aluminum foil works, just tape it outside so you don't bust the seals from doubled heat
also wet the windows first it'll stick real nice and flat
also tape it well so it doesn't get loose and sing you the 24/7 song of crinkling

>>105742341
Europe has something we call a 'native population'. The native population does not need AC, it is degenerate and reckless to use such thing and only LGBT and certain ethnic groups use such AC because they couldn't care less about others or in some cases even want to cause harm. AC also causes obesity.
The native european thinks ahead and should the temperatures ever reach high temperatures they do as follows: Open all windows and doors of the house at night, let it vent, get up as the sun rises, close all vents and blinds to trap the cool or shut out the warm air. Easy as.

>>105743441
theoretically you could charge an e-car worth 100 miles in like 10 hours with the sun that is hitting your window but there's no good solar panel yet that would have the efficiency to harvest that much energy.
in terms of harvesting solar energy technology we're still kinda in the stone age

>>105743451
>outside
I'm a renter in a tall building unfortunately (there is a service access outside but we aren't allowed)

>>105743398
>>105743451
If you use foil, take great care to not cause hotspots. You don't want reflections to cause a fire

>>105743268
I live in Germany and I've never seen an apartment with AC.

>>105743505
I'm there too, looking for a new place and saw at least 3 ads with AC (le WÄRMEPUMPE).
Heat pumps became quite the big meme around here and it's developing to become an even bigger one. At least it's somewhat working in many places but in other places with rougher climate I guess people will realize it really isn't "perfect" for all places.

>>105743482
probably couldn't pull that off if you tried
the caustics of a water bottle are more dangerous

>>105743441
Something about storing barrels somewhat deep under the garden where its cooler and then circulating fluid.
A ghetto ass version of this would be like a somewhat large radiator with tubing going to a relatively lazy pump, perhaps a large aquarium one, just to move the liquid about and then sending that shit to the aforementioned barrels outside via tubing where they will radiate to the outside, a heat exchange system.
If not buried then at least out of the sun, that should do something as long as the outside is cooler than the in.

>>105743531
Oh and they're also really popular because it's apparently mandated to update the heater every 20 years or so or get fined so landlordoids are constantly trying to find the cheapest solution to swap the old heaters out for the newest thing that isn't expensive.

>>105743531
>At least it's somewhat working in many places but in other places with rougher climate I guess people will realize it really isn't "perfect" for all places.

They make heat pumps now that will work in extreme climates, I have a relative in Wisconsin where it gets to -20f (-28C) in the winter and he uses the heat pump year round for heating and cooling

ordered a 14k BTU piece of crap for 400€
I'll mod a second hose later

>>105742591
actual dual hose portables are unicorns. you'll have to duct tape or otherwise attach an intake hose to it somehow, they're all basically the same.

>>105741728 (OP)
If a portasplit can't work, get a dual pipe AC instead. The noisy bit is still inside but at least it's not taking inside cooler air and throwing it outside

>>105742341
Because we're fucking retarded and pretend it NEVER gets hot. We spend all our fucking energy building homes that trap heat so we save 30 cents a year on power bills during winter and boil to death in summer because we're fucking retarded I hate it

>>105741728 (OP)
You can get a dual hose portable unit (one for intake and one for exhause). The single hose units are shit cause if air gets blown out, hot air is coming in from outside somewhere.

>>105743477
if you're doing it on the inside, don't tape it to the actual window unless you want all that radiant heat from the glass to go straight through the foil. hang one of those emergency foil blankets as a curtain.

>>105743927
no you cannot get one, stop fuckin lying.

>>105743929
they are taped to the frame so there is a space inbetween

>>105741728 (OP)
Imagine gutting one of these to build a sick ass gaming PC haha

>>105743456
It's astonishing how shitskins and other refugee scum don't know how to ventilate a room.
Even when they are in their third generation, they still don't know that you do not open windows in the afternoon.

>>105744230
native anglos are 100% the worst at this. darkies wear winter jackets in summer.

>>105743927
>You can get a dual hose portable unit
in the US maybe
for some reason midea refuses to sell that in yurop

fuck I need this
I'm burning right now, I can't even game

>>105743456
Point and laugh at the poor, arrogant moron. I hope niggers and economic migrants and whatever else overrun your ethnically pure dump and litter your buildings with window units.
Build with central ducting, moron.

>>105743456
>AC also causes obesity
stopped reading here

>>105743456
that is why every heatwave around europe a ton of pure european old timers die in a stupid way, bc you idiots really believe just venting at night in houses non prepared for it works...
t. south european that needs to deal with -15 to 40ºC

>>105742341
typical european is very poor. The median EU household has less than $7,000 to spend on housing compared to $25,000 for the US.

>>105742368
Europeans love the fuck out of their tiny multi tilt windows. Just open a window, they say when their outside air temp hit a high of 20C not 44C all day long.