Customer Review

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  STOP LOOKING! YOU FOUND IT!!!
  Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 June 2020
  I live in a first-floor flat that can reach +38 degrees in the summer. Unbearable!! This unit will make a world of difference! AND I will give you a breakdown of my findings, tips and things to know when considering an AC/This item. Including my honest opinion.Let’s clear up a couple of things. This is a ‘cheap’ unit in comparison to the big brands. The cost saving is on the aesthetics, NOT the functionality/performance. You are going to see some cheaper feeling plastics and a basic user interface(s) like manual flaps to alter the direction of flow (see pictures) and remote. The swankiest part is the touch buttons on the top. Don’t let this put you off, this unit is not a well-known brand and as I did, question if it works/worth the money. It’s a lot of money to put on a whim and prayer. You can rest easy!!! It works well for the price and will vent out hot air (hose/window kit comes with it) and push cold air into your room. If you use on dehumidifier setting, it will take the humidity out (the bit that makes you feel the most like an unbearably sweaty, puddle of a person) and punch refreshing and tantalizing cool air into your life. You will have to empty the internal collection tank more often but, the choice is there and a recommended one. You can also just run it on Fan mode or AC setting your desired temp. When the unit reaches the desired temp, the fan will still keep running and turn off the chiller functionality. If the temp rises, it will turn the chiller back on. It has timers, 2 levels of speed, dehumidifier, Fan Only, up/down buttons, and a warning light that will illuminate red, shutting off the unit, when the internal collection tray is full. There are 2 drain plugs to empty it. One at the bottom to empty into a tray or bucket and one at the top to have connected to a constant drain into a vessel or outlet for constant drainage if you use the dehumidifier more regularly for example. Very little water is stored in the tray if you only use AC and can be drained once a week or so.ITS NOICY. A small price to pay to actually be cool. You will notice it more than a standing fan that pushes hot air around the room but, less than you might think. I can still hear the TV, someone talking across the room over the noise of the unit it’s just a small trade-off for cold air, the lesser of evils if you will? night time, it depends on how you sleep. If you prefer perfect silence, it will probably bother you but, again.. it can be toned out. Better than restless sleep due to being uncomfortably hot.Make sure to do your homework. Getting bigger does not equal colder. If you get too big of a BTU for your space, it will warm up the room. On the other hand… too small for your space, it won’t work as efficiently. It still may cool your room down, it will just take longer and cost you more to run overall.It works like your fridge… It boils a liquid with a low boiling point which creates a gas. This gas cools the air. The heat created from boiling the liquid into a gas is cooled through an internal radiator (like in your car, see picture). This heat is vented through the provided pipe out the window and all you should be left with cold air coming out of the machine. So yes, it will need to be placed near a window to be vented. Window kit also provided to put into window opening with optional slidable block you can attach nozzle in that will block the opening of the window.Work out your rooms Square Foot to see if this will be adequate for your space. Measure your longest wall in meters and then times this by your shortest. My room is 6m x 3M. 6 x 3 = 18 square foot. Perfect! Usually measured by BTU, different brands will tell you some different figures for what their unit is capable of and usually will be down to the energy ratings/efficiency of the unit (my opinion). Generally speaking, get as close to the size of BTU you need, when considering the unit for you.Its not an easy decision to make buying an air conditioner but, let me put your mind at rest, your money here is well invested. It makes a BIG difference. The second that scorching heat hits, you will have friends you didn’t know you had, wishing they were there with you. You will be ice cold wondering what all the fuss is about.When I bought mine, I immediately felt bad “have I really just spent that amount of money? I hope I haven’t made a big mistake?”. Within seconds of turning it on, I wish I had bought it sooner. It actually works and I now hate conventional heat wafters (fans) that have little to no effect on a hot day that as soon as you are out of their airflow, you immediately want to die of heatstroke and feel worse off. Seriously, being stuck in high humidity heat with little to no way of changing this can be very uncomfortable. You feel like you are being tortured alive if you like? Having an AC is the answer. Plus… helps when you have kids who are happy and cool… and not driving you up the wall over something you can't change lol ?It will cost you approximately 20 - 40p an hour to run. Something to be mindful of but, I usually turn mine on with the doors and windows shut and in the hour, slaving over the hot oven in the kitchen, am greeted to a wall of cold air as much as 10 degrees cooler than the rest of the house. I turn it off as soon as I have the desired temp and provided doors are kept closed, will only run it in short bursts to keep it there. It is efficient enough that it is not running 24/7. It removed the heat from the room not pushing it to the other corner and feeling instantly hotter when you turn it off. With this in mind, I have not noticed a massive spike in energy consumption etc.Sorry… it’s a long one. Well done and thank you for reading this far. Honest opinion, get one. You will feel the difference. And ultimately, if it is not quite right for you and (or), you need something different, it is reasonably priced enough that you will have not destroyed your back pocket to try one for the first time and, more to the point, if it’s still the summer season, there will always be someone who is like I was for the last 6 years, regretting not getting one before the hot weather arrived with sellers inflating their prices, pricing out people who cannot now get their hands on a reasonably priced unit due to being sold out etc or, only expensive limited options available. These are the people that will take your whole arm off to get it off you and pay the price to feel cool in a state of pure sadness and exhaustion from the heat. Very British lol ?I hope that this will have given you a little bit more to help you make an informed choice? In an ideal world, these would be more affordable and generally our UK weather is not consistently hot so, can seem a bit of a luxury to have one for those odd days/weeks in the year. I would still get one. On average days like we have been having around low 20’s where it is ridiculously humid, 20 minutes here and there to take that edge off! Remove the stickiness and to be able to cook in the house… worth every penny!Hopefully, happy spending… Join the cool side.. We have cookies because we can bake them in the summer lol haha ?Cheers, :)

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  Does make a difference.
  Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 June 2019
  I bought this for my mums bedroom. She has COPD and had to go into hospital last year during the heatwave, so I bought this after checking places like Screwfix etc. Its been running since Thursday night and really has used it in made a difference. She had a couple of pedestal fans running and the noise is about the same, I don't think its really noisy. The bedroom has Velux windows so the window kit isn't ideal, but I used it in the gap at the bottom, closed the window onto it, and blocked the gaps in the top and the sides. I'm going to get a drainage hose because when you run the dehumidifier I've had to drain it twice a day the way the weather is at the moment. I would say the nightime function does not really work, dosen't seem to be any quieter. However as its not any louder than the fans it dosen't seem to matter. I would recommend it, it hasn't turned the room into a fridge but its nice and cool and mum is very comfortable. Its been three days or so so I'll update the review in a couple of weeks if anything changes.-----Still working well, I bought a standard washing machine drainage hose to put on it, fits perfectly and I would recommend it when the dehumidifier is running. It's surprising how much moisture it draws from the air.

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  Perfect
  Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 July 2019
  It is more powerful than expected, it cooled our BIG room in few minutes, the only problem it is noisy, if you don’t mind the noise then it is perfect!

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  Great Air con unit, excellent value for money
  Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 May 2020
  Great portable aircon unit. Cooled my double bedroom (20m²) from 27°C to 22°C in about 15 minutes and was down to 18°C within the hour.Like all portible aircon units in this price range it is a little noisy, similar volume to a cheap fan. I can't sleep through the noise, however my wife can, and it is definately better than trying to sleep through the heat!

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  Excellent cooling capabilities, but that vent hose...
  Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 August 2020
  The unit arrived well packaged and once unwrapped, it was slightly slimmer than I was expecting. Controls are simple (the ones on the unit itself - I don't need the remote). I was pleased with the overall quality and the fairly modern styling. Then I tried to connect the vent hose to the machine and the window plate and discovered that the hose is too stiff, too short and the window plate is designed for a style of window that most houses in the UK don't have! The decision to include this style of vent hose/plate is the work of a maniac.The air conditioner itself is about as loud as a decent vertical fan, but well worth putting up with for the cooling that comes with the noise. It took my 22' x 12' room from 29 degrees to 22 degrees in 30 minutes, despite the window not being fully sealed for the reasons detailed above.I'm pleased with the air conditioner, but the vent hose is the single most irritating thing I've ever come into contact with (and I've met Russell Brand!)

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  Great and easy to use.
  Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 May 2020
  I like it! It's neat, smaller that I expected and the hose is more robust than the tumble drier hoses.It's is a little bit loud but not rattly, and I can hear my toddler calling me from his room even though he's over the landing and I have this thing on 'high wind'. It's brilliant and cools my big bedroom down quickly. The noise wouldn't stop me sleeping, it's no louder than a normal fan on full.Because it's quite petite it'll store away nicely in winter too. My husband rolled his eyes at me when I insisted we need ac but he's changed his mind and decided it was a good buy.

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  Good value for money
  Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 July 2019
  I’ve only had this for a few days, but so far so good! It can be a little loud, but most air conditioners will be noisy. It was easy to set up, but having windows that open out, the window fittings that come with it don’t suit, so I’ve had to purchase a separate item, costing another £20 or so. If you have sash windows that open upwards, you’ll be set as soon as it arrives, but if your windows open outwards, I’d suggest getting a universal window fitting to arrive at the same time.Be aware that if this is for use in the bedroom the LED lights on the top display do not turn off and give off a fairly bright blue light. I’m sensitive to light, so I’ve had to cover the top at night. It’s a small annoyance but not a make it or break it, as this unit is less expensive than others on the market.All in all, I’m glad we purchased this unit as the bedroom is the warmest room in the house and in summer it can be so unbearable my husband and I have taken to sleeping downstairs where it’s cooler. This unit has allowed us to keep our large bedroom the perfect temperature for sleeping on the hottest nights.This wasn’t the most expensive unit on the market, so I knew we wouldn’t be getting some of the fancier technology, but it’s good value for the money!

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  Good price
  Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 June 2019
  The machine in itself is pretty good . Does the job and it is the cheapest so would definitely recommend it but .... it didn’t come with a drainage hose for the water and it said it does come with that . Would love it if you guys would send me the hose though.... I have given it 4 stars only for this mistake .

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  Not great, not terrible. Possibly fake reviews?
  Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 August 2020
  Cools my room down from 31C to 27C. It can't manage anything more than that even though the air that comes out of it I measured at 16C. So why doesn't it cool more? Here's why:I read a bit more about this and apparently single pipe designs suffer from an issue - they need to cool themselves and they suck air in from the room then exhaust it out the window (that's what the pipe is for). Which means they take air that they've just cooled and exhaust it back out. Some of it remains in the room, some of it is exhausted back out, meaning the cooling performance is greatly reduced.In a dual pipe design, they suck air in from OUTSIDE, use it to cool themselves and then exhaust back OUT. So there is no mixing between outside and inside air. Single pipe designs pull from the room, which creates negative pressure. This makes air rush in through any gaps under your door or your window. It's impossible for it not to come in through small cracks, no matter how well you insulate, otherwise your room would become vacuum. So that means there's always mixing of inside and outside air and that explains why my room sits at 27C when the air coming out of the AC is 16C.Basically, just avoid single pipe designs all together. I had heard that advice before purchasing but so many people here gave amazing reviews like "Wow, it cooled it from 35 to 25C in 15 minutes!". Nonsense. That's impossible unless you have it right next to the window and your window is not well insulated in which case it just draws air in from the window instead of from your room. I don't know what's up with the reviews but something's wrong.

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  Neat machine, all you need in a room!
  Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 June 2020
  This air conditioner was definitely a good buy! The machine itself is neat in appearance, does not dominate the room and operates as expected. The controls are easy to understand and use basically however I have not yet used the sleep or timer mode . The noise is quite apparent but is as expected. I do not think there is a quiet, portable machine out there, certainly not for this price, so is acceptable and the cooling effect is worth it. On arrival, the plastic bracket which connects the large hose to the machine was usable but cracked so I contacted the company. The communication was very good and a replacement was sent out quickly. Having only had this machine a short time and successfully kept cool during the recent hot weather, I am happy to recommend this machine and the company who supplied it.