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Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 10:26pm

Andrew65

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Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 10:26pm

I have an unknown brand that has run for over ten years.

Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 1:23pm

Stephanie86

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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 1:23pm

While air con is certainly a ‘nice to have’, it isn’t necessarily an ‘essential’ during hotter months. My mother has lived here for nearly 60 years without the need to use it and following her practices, we find we only occasionally need to run it to perhaps cool down a room for 10 minutes or so. We have the individual inverter type which were installed (second hand I believe!) by the previous owner, several of which don’t work anyway!!!

To keep the interior of one’s house cool, you need to close all windows/doors/shutters/blinds during the day, say from around 9 am until the sun moves from that room. We have internal white blinds so the rooms are not dark, apart from the bedroom which has internal shutters and during the day that doesn’t matter. This keeps the interior cool and habitable and if we feel the need for extra ‘chill’ then we simply run a fan. this works perfectly well and is much cheaper!!!!

Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 6:17pm

UKHandyMan4Hire

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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 6:17pm

Just to add on to Stephanies (very helpful) points, unlike in the UK, most windows over in Spain have blinds on the outside.

It is important to close the outer blinds (or shutters) to avoid the sun reaching the glass, which creates the solar gain in the property. In the UK, people put blinds on the inside and wonder why they don't stop the heat as much!

Hope it helps