Well after placing a few bids on eBay, I got a result.

It took me a couple of days because I wanted to stay at less than a hundred quid because there was so much on offer – not only that I can go down to B&Q and buy a new machine for about £160.

Anyway I won two auctions, both for portable mono-bloc units. One in Cambridge and the other 40 minutes drive away, so I whipped out during the evening on Saturday and picked both up.

For £60 I got a nice compact unit that is a just over 2 feet tall and sucks out 8000BTU of heat and for £32 I got an older unit that is almost 3 feet tall and quite a beast of a machine that will swallow 12000BTU

I thought the small machine would be more than ample, with the vent pipe stuck out through a gap in the door to the garden, I should be feeling just cool. But no, the thing is on ALL the time and I can’t get below about 25 degrees.

So a quick shuffle around and I brought in the mega beast with 12000BTU cooling – WOW I’m down at 23 degrees and this baby is cycling on and off nicely. Any cooler and I’m going to freeze in the breeze!

So there we have it, a couple of days later and my eBay account put to good use and I’m back in business. Now I just need a break in this cloudy (believe it or not) weather and I can go gliding for the day (another benefit of working for yourself at home!)

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