Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK)
nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 2 days agoIt makes the air cold. What’s there to understand
With that logic, leaving your refrigerator door open should cool the room. But doing so would actually heat it up.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Yes because the job of the refrigerator is to extract heat from the small area and dump it out the back. An air conditioner is the same thing but it is designed to extract heat from the entire room and dump it outside.
The problem is unless you have ducted heating all that’s going to do is cool one room. UK homes aren’t built with ducted heating. So the best you can get away with is one room cool and everything else is still unbearably hot. All of which is assuming that the landlord is ok with me punching sodding great holes in the wall. Even for people who own their own homes the cost isn’t worth it, it’s incredibly expensive to buy an air conditioning system in the UK and then literally no one knows how to fit them. Isn’t just a matter of buying one.