BLACK+DECKER BXAC40008GB Portable 3-in-1 Air Conditioner with 24-Hour Timer, Remote Control, 12,000 BTU, White

The media could not be loaded. Omg this machine is fantastic! I have a large 2 bedroom flat with south facing wall to wall windows. The heat gets unbearable in the UK heatwave. I’ve added tinted windows, the tall Dyson fans to the bedrooms and have kitchen and bathroom extractor fans running on the north facing side. Plus I keep the humidity low with a big dehumidifier machine. Which has all helped, but I use a clothes dryer condenser machine every day. Once that heat is in the flat, it’s very hard to get it out again. Especially when there is no breeze coming through the windows and it’s very humid outside. Our flat went up to 29c last year, before I even put the dryer on. So this year I read as many reviews as possible, and decided I had no choice but to take the plunge and make my own mind up. So glad I did. Yesterday my indoor temp was 27c and with the air con on full speed it lowered it by 2degrees within 10 minutes. I left the living room door open the whole time, and not only does the whole room feel like I’m sitting in an air conditioned car, but it makes my long narrow hall way cold as well. After an hour the bedrooms started feeling cooler and then I was able to put my clothes dryer on. Yes its a bit noisey. But we can hear the tv over the loudest speed setting. So isn’t bothering us. I’ve added a quick video clip to show how it does reduce down in noise on the medium and lowest settings on full air con mode. Ignore the background tapping, that was the dog walking around wanting to be involved lol. Having low humidity to start of with, I think may be the key to why this machine instantly feels my room and hall up with beautiful cold air, to the point where Im actually feeling too cold and have to turn the machine down if the clothes dryer isn’t on by 5pm. But keeping it running cooled the bedrooms down even further for bedtime. The wooden floors instead of carpet probably help as well. We haven’t fitted the window kit yet. I’m sure that’s going to make a difference as well, especially when that horrible humidity outside rises. The soft breeze outside yesterday wasn’t blowing any of the exhaust hose heat back in the window. Today no breeze and I can feel the heat outside enter near the window only. The machine is still keeping the room lovely and cold. Another trick I found, was using a desk fan on my kitchen unit, near the door way, facing outwards. This helped direct the cool air in my hall to reach the bedrooms faster. One room is on the south side same size as my living room (pics added to give you a rough idea of the room size) and my sons double bedroom on north side, has gaming equipment that heats his room like a heater. This portable air con machine btu1200 is making the world of difference, from just being situated in the living room. I definitely wouldn’t be without it now. Update Today: Even with the temperature outside at 29c, and the low humidity in my flat, the machine makes it feel like 21c instead of the reading in the living room showing 25c for instance. Rest of the flat it got the temp down to 26c but still feels nice and cool with a nice breeze affect flowing around. After 2.30pm my bedroom was down to 25c as well. Today I’m using the auto setting. It switches from air con to cooling fan superbly. Which also switches automatically through the speed settings. The noise in the room just blends in the back ground when the tv’s on and the families home. I’ve had annoying, useless floor stand fans worse than this noise. So the noise isn’t bothering us and hardly noticeable in the rest of the flat. When it’s in fan only mode, it’s even better than my tall Dyson fans. Plus with its self dehumidifier working in air con mode. I no longer have to use my separate dehumidifier machine. Haven’t had to drain no water out of the machine yet. But this is only the second day.Update: third day is raining, very hot and humid. My flats humidity over night went up to 56. I even turned my old dehumidifier machine on around midnight and the tank was full by the morning and again in the afternoon. So thankful to the kind Amazon member! Who not only replied back quickly to my question, of whether I could use the air con machine on rainy days. But also took the time to do a quick video as well. It was very much appreciated! So I set about adding a waterproof window kit and pointed the hose out the window. Making sure it was pointing down to help prevent rain getting in it. Worked a treat. Plus today I’ve had the auto mode setting on all day. Due to the high humidity still in my flat because of this hot rainy weather. Took longer to cool and reach the bedrooms down the hall. But baring in mind, I did have the clothes dryer on for 2 hrs and my front room and hall were still super cold. The machine makes much less noise in auto mode as well, not just because it’s switching between fan and speed settings. But it seems to run with a smoother noice it seems. Either that or I’m just already accustomed to it being back ground noise now. I ran the machine for 12hrs today and my electric smart meter device was only showing £3.89 for the whole day. Usually it shows £2.50 to £3.00 depending how many times I have the clothes dryer on. So for less than a pound a day to run the air con for that amount of time, is fantastic. I’m still dreading the day the water needs emptying though. I’ve no idea how much will need to come out. It’s a pity they haven’t designed one with a removable tray to empty, like a dehumidifier machine has.Update June 2023. Still working great!

Very impressed. This unit is not quiet but very few portable AC’s are unless you’re buying into the expensive price range.Used this for a small home office/gaming setup and it has worked wonders with PC temps now well within parameters as the room is very well insulated but with poor ventilation for cool air.Within 20 minutes the room went from 25c to 21c, which is a noticeable difference. After no more than an hour we were down to 17c as part of initial testing of the unit.The window kit is decent and fit my window perfectly. The exhaust hose is short so for any distance I would recommend getting an extension or your own exhaust pipe.4 stars given just because of the exhaust pipe length. Otherwise, this product is fantastic.The app is great, setup was easy and this has integrated within my smart home with ease.If you’re sat there in a warm uncomfortable environment and your room is small, just buy this 👍

Let's get some of the obvious stuff out of the way first ...It's got a fan and a condenser, and it is portable so it won't be packed with sound proofing, so won't be the quietest. But, I've worked in offices with noisier air conditioning.It needs to be vented, so if you don't put the exhaust (hose} outside you are pumping the heat back in and paying a lot for a fancy fan. If that's your plan: buy a quiet fan for a lot less!If you don't 'seal' the room it's in, you're leaking thr cool out and letting the heat in constantly. (Seal = doors and windows shut apart from where the exhaust hose goes out - and that should be sealed too. Also, if you want to save electricity then a draught excluder at the bottom of any door is a must.BTW: I bought a useless 3rd party window kit which I swapped for polythene and tape and got an extra 8C temp drop.)It isn't a whole house solution.Now, why I gave it 5 stars...Last year when we had a heat wave and reached temps of up to nearly 40C in my house, the large room this was in managed the comforable 20C it set it to. When I set it to minimum, it got down to that eventually too (with mid-late 30s Celsius outside). I work from home so a comfortable room at home is very important to me.When I stuck it in my Lounge-Diner (approx 30' x12', or 10m X 4m} it kept that cool if people kept the doors shut but took a while to lower the temp. I very much doubt the claims of the unit itself which said we'd reached 21C but we were conformable nevertheless.I took it to a modern 35x12ft, double glazed, caravan in August last year, and in similar mid-30s Celsius temps it got down to low 20s with all doors and windows closed (except a head-level window the exhaust hose was draped out). Our kids, and friends on the site who initially laughed at me for bringing it, spent a lot of the daytime that fortnight visiting our caravan for no particular reason. ;-)It is easy to use.My only gripe but not worth losing a star for...After 2 weeks of heavy use with a 10-15C temp differential, I remembered that it needs to be emptied every now and then. This isn't straightforward because the outlet is almost at ground level, and I didn't have a tray that fit underneath it, so I ended up having to raise it onto a platform and stick a bucket by the outlet to get less than a cup-ful of fluid out. (Grrr! Ha ha ha!)Basically it was fantastic last summrr (2022), a life saver, and the last few weeks (from May 2023) it is back in action again as the temps are creeping up again.