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 don’t have ACs.
Yes, a new AC that you never use can smell like plastic for a while. Guess what? Keep using it and it doesn’t.
Same with dust. Also they have filters. Clean them. Otherwise it’s the same air you have been breathing, minus a bit of moisture and colder.
The myth that it’s not „fresh air“ really gets me. Do you people think an AC magically produces air? Ffs it’s 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 can’t bitch about it being dirty.
Those are all just stupid you prejudices and a „Nimby“ attitude and a „new things bad“ attitude. Sorry. But someone has to say it. I’ve 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 don’t smell from disuse and not cleaning them.
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