BLACK+DECKER BXAC40005GB Portable 7000 BTU 3-in-1 Air Conditioner, Dehumidifier and Cooling Fan, LED Display, 2 Speed Settings, 24 Hour Timer, Remote Control, 7,000 BTU, White

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 👍

This summer we were about to hit 40C temperatures and I had absolutely had enough. I work from home, in front of a hot computer, in perhaps the warmest room in the house. This AC unit worked an absolute treat to keep us sane during the heat. This is with: - No seal around the window, just sticking the pipe out there - The door to the room slightly ajar so the cat can come in You know when you open the over door and get blasted in the face by hot air? It felt like that every time we left the room with the AC in. We just slept in the spare bedroom during the heatwave because that's where the AC was. Some notes: - Like all ACs, it's pretty loud. If it's hot enough for you to need the AC, I doubt you'll care. - Like all ACs, it's pretty heavy. A two-person job if you're planning to lug this thing up some stairs. It's on wheels though, so it's easy to wheel around on the horizontal plane. - The pipe is not super-duper long. Depending on your windows, this may or may not be a problem - if they open above head-height, you're probably out of luck. - I used the AC to keep one room in my house cool. If you've trying to keep cool in a massive room or cool your entire house, you'll need something stronger.

This is in relation to the 9,000 BTU AC. Probably received a faulty one, but have never encountered so many problems with an AC before... - Had to empty the AC 8-10 times in one day, at least once an hour... - Water leaked all over the carpet from a small circular hole in the bottom of the unit and through all the edges. even after emptying! - Doesn't cool a small room at all, just makes it immediately hot as soon as it's turned off. - Venting hose is very short - Guarantee is non-existent even though it states 2 Years guaranteed. You cannot register it as the make doesn't exist on the site. - Pretty noisy - No Customer / Manufacturer support due to not actually being a Black & Decker AC (Manufacturer is RKWLtd) Both sides would give me each others numbers and state they cannot help.

To anyone expecting the experience of a split aircon - be prepared for compromise. In this case the compromise would s volume and efficiency. The compressor is part of the machine, although substantially quieter than my previous portable air con. I find it quite tolerable and I not an unpleasant sound or volume, although you may have issues if you intend to Video call whilst it’s on - depends how close you are to it. No portable machine is going to be as quiet as a split one; window air con is probably the only other half way house. It will chill down a small or medium size room well, but for a large room get the 12k BTU unit. Mine seems to run at 900W power which is fine for my use but if you run this 24/7 it will hit your electric bill (~£3 per 24hr) It is also huge, foot print is not enormous but it is a tall and physically big appliance, and heavy. You’ll want to keep it in one place throughout the summer and not lug it up and down the stairs on a daily basis as it is heavy, but it is on rollers. Nice finish, remote works, no app control but really, it’s not all that necessary. Also, be aware I have seen this machine fluctuate significantly in price so you might want to try looking to buy one on a cold wet day and not a scorcher. This machine went up £100 a few days after I bought it when temp went up to 27 Celsius. 2 yr warranty is good. Although I haven’t found the machine on the B&D website which is a head scratcher but I guess it must be made by a different manufacturer and simply B&D rebranded. All in all, very pleased.

This is a very efficient aircon unit but it is very noisy especially when the compressor is running. There is a "Sleep" mode but it is still too loud, we would not be able to have this running in the same room overnight. We have a ground floor flat, so during the day I have the unit as far away as possible in another room with a Dyson fan in the passageway pulling cold air from that space into the living room or in the hallway with the exhaust through the cat flap, that works well and the noise is bearable ! The unit is very big and heavy. I don't think I had really considered what to do with the exhaust pipe, it's big and not really long enough which limits where you can place the unit. I contacted Black and Decker Support to ask about the hose size for an extension, as there seems to be a few options, and they we very unhelpful claiming that the unit was made under license by someone else and that they had no information about the product. I found this quite disturbing. I find it a bit odd that the flow of exhaust air is very high, even when in "Fan" Mode, so you have to disconnect the exhaust hose, it's maybe even higher than the the cooled output when on the low fan speed setting, which means that as much or more hot outside air is being pulled back into the building as is being cooled by the unit. There is no doubt that the overall result is a cold room but I would expect that a lower exhaust fan speed would be more efficient? On reflection would I buy it again knowing what I know now? I don't Know. There is a heatwave this week and I am nice an cool as I write this, so probably yes, but next week it will probably just be in the way, so?

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.

Very hefty unit, but very effective cooling even a large room. Firstly, this unit is bigger than I was expecting. In terms of dimensions, this is a big beast, and much bigger than the unrealistic dimensions provided in the product description (and bigger than what some of the other people have answered). It is 85cm Tall (inc wheels) x 36cm Width x 42cm Depth, though realistically, you need at least 55cm space if you are to put the exhaust hose on and bend it. It comes with wheels pre-assembled, which is just as well since at what seems ~30kg, it's really hard to move around otherwise. Talk of the exhaust hose, it is about 1.5m long comparable with most other units, so do work out where you're going to put the unit before buying. What's not included is any window seal or similar fitting to minimise heat coming back in from outside, however given they don't know what type of window/outlet you'll be using, I guess it's fair enough. In terms of functionality, this really gives a good cold blast and brought relief quite quickly for those sat close to the unit. However what you won't appreciate is how noisy it is, and even any quiet/sleep mode really doesn't help. But to be fair, I've not come across a quiet mobile A/C unit yet. At around £460 at time of purchase, it's by no means cheap. But it is powerful, however do be aware of the weight, bulk and general dimensions so you know where you can store it for the other 350 days of the year when you probably don't need to use it! pros - Powerful cooling, can manage large space quickly - Good rolling wheels means it's easy to wheel around cons - large dimensions of 85cm H x 36cm W x 42cm D - Expensive - noisy