electriQ - 14000 BTU Smart Portable Air Conditioner with Heat Pump (P15HPW)

AirFlex 14000 BTU 4kW Portable. £500 when new. I've had a few over the years, eventually they get feeble & need replacing. I've had this one since 2021 & it's still going strong. Quieter than some I've had before but still noisy as F. I got this one because it has a front hose as well as rear, so we don't need to run it in the room we want to cool the most. I added a second full length hose \[which they say makes it less efficient but when it's 32 in the shade, sod that for a game of soldiers\] so we can point it at any room in the house & help it along with a Dyson fan. Keeps the noise down too. Your window design sounds ideal. It should come with enough kit to poke the hose through a blanking plate that will give a partial seal. I'd wait til you try it for size before deciding if you need an additional sealing solution. Unless you can keep the vent hose really short, a bit of fresh air leakage around the edges won't really make much practical difference. If you ask any actual aircon expert they'll tell you that this single hose out the window type are very inefficient anyway - but I'm back to that earlier-mentioned game of soldiers. Edit after reading other comments - no wifi on this one, but there's most probably a model that does now. My workroom can easily hit 42°C in summer, old Victorian solid walls, one east, one south facing & just under a slate roof, so it takes some punishment. It manages to get it down to low 20s, even though I leave the room door open so I'm evening out the heat into the rest of the house. As evening falls we close the workroom in, pushing the hose out into the hallway to cool the rest of the house. Of course it's not powerful enough to get it down to chilly, but it really helps, and takes enough humidity out of the air to make the overall experience far more comfortable.

We have an electriQ AirFlex 14000 - specifically because it has a pipe you can connect to the front \[as well as the regular one that goes out of the window\] so we can send the airflow out to another room rather than have to move the whole unit. We're also on the top floor \[well, top three floors, it's an odd split with the font & back at different levels\] but the pipe lets us pump air down to the living room in the evening as well as our workrooms & bedroom at other times. Previously we've had a couple of Amcor units - OK, but not as good as this one. General advice - get as many BTUs as you can possibly afford. It's never quite enough. electriQ now do a 1600 I've done a filtered search on this site, which is where we got ours from. [https://www.aircondirect.co.uk/nav/pt/air-conditioners/actype/portable/btu/994723/btu/1058478/btu/1296752/btu/1834694/btu/1834826/mc/132605?rangeattribute=1\~100\~600](https://www.aircondirect.co.uk/nav/pt/air-conditioners/actype/portable/btu/994723/btu/1058478/btu/1296752/btu/1834694/btu/1834826/mc/132605?rangeattribute=1~100~600)

The hose is a major feature. I actually bought 2 & taped them together, blatantly ignoring the instructions not to - I don't care it's less efficient or will shorten its life if it can blow down the stairs into the living room from my workroom at the top of the house. I know one machine isn't supposed to be able to cope with 3 large rooms & 2 landings, but by damn, it can try;)) We also have three fans helping to direct airflow. Heath Robinson, or even Wallace & Gromit, would have been proud.

Ours was about that, yes. There's extra depending on which hoses etc you want with it. I can't remember what it comes with - I think the rear hose & bar you squash in the window, plus front & rear hose connectors. Because it's also a heat pump, the front & rear clip in & out so you can swap them, plus an extra hose joint rather than a louvre. I THINK I only had to buy one or two extra hoses… memory is dim. They also do a wall kit if you want to punch a hole out for the hot air, or if you want to sit the unit outside & punch IN through the wall \[it's apparently weather-proof, but I'm on the 3rd floor, so that's never going to get tested;)) It's noisy, btw, but I haven't seen one that isn't.

I bought a portable one during COVID for my home office because the room is in the sun all day, and with all the equipment I have in here it gets too hot. Over 30C on the worst days. It's a proper one with a hose you stick out the window, not one of the crap ones you have to load with ice which do nothing. I bought [this one](https://www.electriq.co.uk/p/p15hpw/electriq-p15hpw--air-conditioner) used on eBay for €300 and I love it. During heatwaves the past few years I've actually slept in the office room just so I would get a good night's sleep. The weather was so poor last summer I didn't actually use it but I'll have to wheel it out again this year probably.

I have a 14000btu electriQ one bought from aircondirect a couple of years ago. It’s one that has to be vented out the window. I would highly recommend them. They’re not very energy efficient, but for me, absolutely worth it. It’s important to get one with the correct BTU for the size of the room you want cooling. I used to use a fabric window kit that tapes round the window but they’re a bit unsightly, so I had a piece of clear Perspex cut with a hole big enough to fit the vent pipe out. Velcro tape it on and you’re good to go, and it’s much easier to take off and looks infinitely better.

i have a 14,000 BTU portable unit from appliances direct. My aircon bill was £3 yesterday. usually its £1-£1.50/day But then it was 33c outside, and 20c inside, and the aircon compressed 50% of the time from 7am sat and will stay on until sun 10pm Its not just the cool temperature.... its the fact that the house is cool, so for example on monday my place will be back to normal 22c and it'll be a no aircon day , my neighbours are at 27c no aircon. concrete boxes take ages to cool :) so it will be a week before theres cools down if the weather allows it. Miines value for money cos i use it in heating mode in the winter too. I set it to 22c and let it get on with it all winter. The key is learning how to use it correctly. Most people just dont i.e. they start cooling when its hot, or they turn it on for 2 hours thinking theyre making some kind of saving. My yearly heating and cooling bill comes to £300. sounds alot but then i dont use gas central heating... so now its looking a bit of a bargain. AND people are always asking me...how can you afford to heat your place to 22c all winter....

If you want the rolls royce of portable aircon thats a pinguino.... but i'm scraping by, and i have to make do with what i can lay my hands on especially at higher BTU.