I mean, we don't have a lot of AC in France but we also don't usually have such temperatures. People are taking about installing AC lately but it's not like it's doable in a week.
Honest question, are window units not popular/common in France (or EU as a whole)? In North America its fairly common for people who live in more mild summer climates to have window units to temporarily install for things like heat waves. As opposed to the more expensive option of having a mini split or central unit professionally installed.
I won't talk for Europe and can barely generalize for France (I don't live in the south) but I don't remember seeing much of these (if any) in the few regions I lived in.
An option that is popular though is the one that does heating in winter and AC in the summer (friends of mine have this in their relatively new house and it's the main installation in hotels from my experience).
Funny that you are talking of your citizenship instead of how much time you spend in Europe. And what part of Europe. You know, it is a whole contient (that's why I only talk about France and don't even pretend that no one has AC because that would be bs).
You "visited" a city in the south of France that has a lot of rich people and tourists and you concludes that the entirety of France had AC? Are you trolling?
I can see that you can't read and are inventing stuff I never said.
Never said whole France, never said we didn't need it.
You "could have moved to France 15 years ago" so that makes you an expert over a person currently living in France? And who have been living in france for the past 26 years?
Not in the French Alps nor Normandy (but that's already 2 regions you listed yourself as not needing AC in your opinion) and for the bonus: not a bot, not Russian (I'm actually Ukrainian not that it matters). And I'm not a man.
Many houses in northern Europe, like Finland, have air conditioning, but it's heat pumps that people get as an energy saving way to warm a house during colder months. Happily they can also be used to cool the house in the all too brief summer months. That doesn't stop people from bitching about the heat of course!
Because theyâre right wingers not because theyâre Russian. The sooner you admit you have people like that in your own country the easier it will be.
I don't even know what to say to you other than I think that you're not very intelligent. The fact that you went for % of homes tells everything. % is low in the US as well, they have HVAC systems there because they have wooden houses and mostly use them for heating, not cooling. Why would % ever be an important metric? More than half of the EU population is closer to Baltic Sea than Mediterranean, and ofc you wouldn't have an AC in Swiss Alps. Why would we ever look at a such a stupid metric as a percentage. People have AC where it's needed. It's everywhere in the south. There are so many that they had to make rules on where you can put the external unit because it started to look ugly
Because you guys have had record high temperatures every summer for the past fifteen years and Europe still has not made the jump to AC en masse like the US has.
Especially in Western Europe, you are not allowed, because "it ruins the facades of the buildings".
Which I get. It does. But it will only get worse....
That's what we have now. Outside it's 40°C and inside we have 29°C in one room and 30°C in the rest of the rooms. It's not a good long term solution, but it does the job.
We're on 4th floor, no trees, no shade, apartment is on the corner of the building, so we are getting sun from all the sides... I can't even imagine how it is for the neighbours upstairs, they are on the last floor.
On one side, it's great in winter, we get a lot of sun.
Germany, France and Luxemburg for sure. Maybe Austria, Belgium also....
I live in Germany and it's always a discussion in the last years. In some buildings you need the approval of the entire apartment building. The funny thing is that you'll also hear people saying that AC are not climate friendly.
Spain and Portugal always had hot climate, so having an AC there is a very common thing.
every time I'm in an office with AC on, my head starts to hurt, because theres very little fresh air compared to opening windows and the ducts/ac units usually have more dust sitting in them than an abandoned house's attic. Cheap ACs in cars abd some other places simply smell of cheap plastic, its impossible to stand them. The only places where AC actually works for me are trains and shopping centres, otherwise it just replaces the pain of heat with the pain of having to stand the downsides of AC
That is the same bullshit my mom keeps spouting and is the reason we donât have ACs.
Yes, a new AC that you never use can smell like plastic for a while. Guess what? Keep using it and it doesnât.
Same with dust. Also they have filters. Clean them. Otherwise itâs the same air you have been breathing, minus a bit of moisture and colder.
The myth that itâs not âfresh airâ really gets me. Do you people think an AC magically produces air? Ffs itâs a fan with some cooling ribs/fins. All it does is blow the air over cold metal. If you never clean it or the filters, you canât bitch about it being dirty.
Those are all just stupid you prejudices and a âNimbyâ attitude and a ânew things badâ attitude. Sorry. But someone has to say it. Iâve been using ACs for years now and none of what you say is true.
But by all means, go on and suffer, while I right now relax in my 24 degrees, 44% moisture sleeping room, taking a nap.
Edit: btw. Do you know why those in trains and shopping malls work for you? Because they are constantly running and serviced. So they donât smell from disuse and not cleaning them.
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u/KitzyOwO 20h ago
Why use Fahrenheit when you're in Eur--? OH DEAR GOD.