It’s hard to imagine our life without air conditioning. And since floor-mounted air conditioning is considered to be one of the most affordable and inexpensive today, the reviews for this mobile device should be carefully studied before deciding to purchase it. Let's talk more about this device.
The floor air conditioner maintains the set indoor air parameters: temperature and humidity. Some models are also able to ionize and purify air.
Floor air conditioners are also called mobile, because they can be moved and transported. However, mobility is relative, because their design features allow operation only in the immediate vicinity of window openings. This applies equally to monoblocks and split systems.
What are floor monoblocks, well explained by many users who supply photos of their reviews. The pictures show that these are mobile air conditioners, consisting of one unit. A corrugated hose called the duct extends from the housing. On it air is removed from the room. The length of the duct is usually up to one meter, but the corrugation can be slightly stretched if necessary. Floor air conditioners also have openings through which air is drawn in and out.
Now about some of the inconveniences that a floor air conditioner can cause. User reviews often have a negative connotation due to the fact that many do not think about how to remove and fix the duct. If a window is provided in an ordinary wooden window, it is easy to open it and insert the duct sleeve there. But what about metal-plastic windows, in which there are no windows? If you open the window in the ventilation mode, it is not so easy to insert the duct into the upper part of the opening. And if you open the window wider and remove the air duct through it, then in hot weather the efficiency of the floor air conditioner will decrease several times due to the air entering through the window.
How to achieve tightness when removing the air duct and make the floor air conditioner more efficient? Reviews of resourceful citizens will help to solve this problem.
One of the users wrote that he had made a hole in the wall under the windowsill with a chipper. The space between the outer diameter of the duct and concrete was sealed with foam. A floor-mounted air conditioner located in this way is only positive. After all, it was possible to increase the efficiency of the device by reducing the length of the duct and preserving the aesthetics of the interior, in which a volume corrugated sleeve does not appear at all.
If you carefully study floor air conditioners, reviews about them on the Internet, then floor split systems are more effective and aesthetic. There is a mobile unit in the room, and an auxiliary one outside the window. These two blocks are connected only by a flexible tube through which refrigerant is pumped. This tube can be easily removed through an ajar metal-plastic window or hole in the frame. Compared to floor-mounted monoblocks, such systems are less noisy and last longer.