The hot season continues and it is usual that for cool our homes Let’s opt for different passive home methods such as opening the windows during the coolest hours, controlling blinds and awnings, or directly using an electrical device such as a fan, an evaporative air conditioner or better yet, if the budget allows it, a air conditioning systemwhether fixed or portable.
However, the problem with most of these air conditioning units is that their ability to generate cooling is often limited. limited to the room where we have it installed (unless we go for a much more expensive and complex duct system).
Besides, We can’t always have them placed in the ideal spot in the house where they would be able to move the greatest amount of cold, since when installing the devices we can often only do so where there is a suitable space in the room that is also compatible with the installation of the external device if it has one.
This makes it so that if we want cool several rooms at once we may have to install several units, one in each room. One way to solve this problem and better distribute the cooling generated by our air conditioning unit with the rest of the house is to use traditional fans placed at strategic points.
But there are users who go a step further and get, With a single air conditioning unit you can cool several rooms at the same timeHow do they do it? These are the craziest and/or most botched tricks I’ve come across on the Internet.
PVC pipes running through the walls
One of the most common tricks to better distribute the air conditioning is to Install PVC pipes between multiple rooms so that cold air can pass from one room to another.
Ideally we would have a construction with ducts, with a false ceiling, wall and everything well insulated, although If aesthetics do not concern us We have solutions like the ones shown in these videos. They are priceless.
Extractors between rooms
Another solution that works if the rooms are next to each other and that is certainly much more aesthetically pleasing, goes through install an air extractor in the room where the air conditioning equipment is installed after drilling a hole in the wall to the other room.
It is also necessary to make another hole with a ventilation grille usually located in the lower area of the wall so that air can circulate well between the two rooms.
Split the split into two rooms
We have another more comfortable option to divide the air conditioning between two rooms: install it directly in a gap made between the wall of both rooms.
It may seem like a radical, complicated and not immediate solution where there will be no turning back, but without a doubt It will be most effective despite the losses we suffer because of the wall.
The long tube to the bedroom
Image: SirBarbas
Finally, an option that combines several of the above is make our own plastic conduit to carry all the air coming out of the split to the desired room in the house.
As we can see by This TweetIt is not aesthetically pleasing and elegant, and if the tube is large we will probably lose some of the cold along the way, but the result is sure to be most satisfactory.
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