Pinguino PAC EM82
The best-executed portable on the UK market; but still a portable. Noisy, inefficient relative to a split, and it needs an honest hose route.
- Noise
- 50 dB(A) min
- Running cost
- £180/yr
- Installed
- £450–£600
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Primary question · If a portable is your only option, which one is least bad?
Renters, listed buildings, and anyone in a heatwave week who genuinely can't install a fixed unit.
£450–£600
- Better-built than the supermarket portables
- Eco-refrigerant
- Reasonable controls
- Loud enough to disrupt sleep
- Window kit looks bad
- Costs more to run than a split
Open the cost planner to estimate your installed price.
Key specifications
- Cooling output
- 2.4 kW
- EER
- 2.6
- Noise
- 50 dB(A) min
- Refrigerant
- R290
- , Better-built than the supermarket portables
- , Eco-refrigerant
- , Reasonable controls
- , Loud enough to disrupt sleep
- , Window kit looks bad
- , Costs more to run than a split
If your brief matches "renters, listed buildings, and anyone in a heatwave week who genuinely can't install a fixed unit.", the Pinguino PAC EM82 is a confident pick. If it doesn't, the alternatives above are more honest answers.
Estimate your installed cost
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