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There are two major benefits to hiring portable air conditioning units. You get to experience the positive effects of air conditioning on a trial basis; and you get to have air conditioning on demand, without having to pay for an installation or worry about maintenance.
The British climate is peculiarly suited to using portable systems, simply because you don't need to have your air conditioning on at all times until you reach the hotter months of the summer. In some cases, having a portable air conditioning unit as a hire property can make more financial sense than commissioning a full installation, and can also pave the way for a future upgrade to that kind of installation once you feel you are using the system enough to warrant the cost.
Portable air conditioning units can, of course, be moved which means that you can try out the effects of having air conditioning in different places around your house or your place of business before you take the plunge and buy. The portable solution is also excellent for older offices and buildings, where an installation may be costly, or may even be prohibited by listing orders on the structure itself.
Where you are using a portable air conditioning unit in place of an older type of cooling idea, like a fan, a whole host of secondary benefits quickly become apparent. Anyone who has ever tried to work in a British office building in the height of summer knows how impossible it is to cool your work area using a fan. You turn the thing on and everything you have been working on blows halfway across the office; you turn it off and get heat stroke. Fans are also noisy and unwieldy a floor standing fan can take up more room than an average sized person, not ideal for the four to a cubicle type spaces that mostly open plan offices seem to use.
Portable air conditioning units provide a genuine cool in the air unlike fans, which essentially just blast the warm air around the room. In British office buildings, which are usually flat roofed and full of windows (the ideal territory, in other words, for summer's heat to turn the whole place into an oven), an inexpensive and versatile method of cooling that air down is indispensable.
Hiring a portable air conditioning unit means you don't have to worry about maintenance or repair either. As with any hire service, the company that owns the units is responsible for providing you with up to date, working types that have been fully serviced. All you do is plug and play hire the unit, plug it in and turn it on. Bear in mind of course that if you break hired portable air conditioning units through misuse you will almost certainly be liable for the damage.
Portable air conditioning is more flexible than a fixed system, though naturally less effective at keeping large areas cool. If you are looking for a temporary solution, though, or if you want to test air conditioning in situ before deciding to buy, it's perfect.
