Boy it hit 30 degrees today and with the computers in my home office, I was just too hot and I was not able to concentrate on what I was doing. Even with the garden doors wide open, it was still unpleasant.

At our last house I had an air conditioning system installed that had separate compressors for my office and for our master bedroom and it was great. However we weren’t convinced that we really needed it and so we didn’t bother having a system installed at our new place.

Last summer was nice, but this year is proving to be hot, hot, hot. I need to cool down and I need to do it fast – so what for a solution? Well straight to good old eBay I just went and boy there are plenty of entries in there for both mono-bloc systems (all in one and wheel them around) and for split systems (stick the compressor and one heat exchanger outside). Not only that, I can pick up a complete system in a couple of boxes if I want and get someone to install it for me.

Well I have put bids on a couple of units, one a mono-bloc and another a brand new split system. Let’s see what happens!

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