Experts reveal the best places to put air conditioning in a house – and the spots to avoid to get the most out of your investment

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With things once again hotting up in the UK, and temperatures on the rise in general, more and more people are starting to invest in air conditioning units for their homes, both portable and wall-mounted systems.

If you are considering fitting air con in a bid to keep your home cooler, you are probably mulling over a range of factors, from running and installation costs to whether fitting air conditioning is worth it in the UK, when, let's face it, for most of the time we are a nation that complains about the rain and the cold more than we do the heat.