Air-conditioner

Placement of the Air-conditioner

Reference Forum Msg: http://forum.geomancy.net/phpforum/article.php?bid=2&fid=1&mid=24541

Further illustrations of air-con placement:

1. All multi-split air-conditioner has:-

1.1. high pressure gas pipe from the compressor to the air-con unit in a room.

1.2. drainage pipe. This drainage pipe follows "gravity". Thus there is one "drop" down to a drainage area e.g. linked or in condos or landed property may be linked to the toilet drainage.

2. In the long-term, it is always more favourable to have the air-con unit placed "closest" to the compressor and a "drainage" point such as a toilet. Thus in many high rise apartments, these two are very high considerations.

3. A third consideration is the "Obstacles" in a Bedroom

Thus: Do you have a walk-in-wardrope? If so, avoid running the air-con compressor piping and drainage piping thru this area. If not, one day, especially if the drainage chokes, then one has a serious issue: as one may have to remove all or part of the build-in-wardrope just to access the air-con piping.

4. Commonsense approach to placement of air-con:-

4.1 Where is your bed-head?

As mentioned, it is preferred not to have the air-con unit above one's bed-head. Not so much that it "symbolises" a beam, but rather, cold air sinks, even if one diverts the air-vents upwards or sideways... Here, in the middle of the night, one's face may feel very cold and throat, mouth and nose can become very dry. May fall sick if faced with this day in day out.

4.2 Air-con above the toilet. Please see attached illustration and comments as to why this is not too good.

4.3 Ideally, the air-con should blow sideways or even on the opposite side of the wall. If it is directly opposite side of the wall, make sure that a flat screen tv or a cabinet is not below the air-con. As if the drainage pipe clogs or if there is high humidity in the air and the air-con is turned very low e.g. below 16 degrees, than water vapour may form. And may just drip into your tv or electrical equipment.

Please see illustration, below:-

http://forum.geomancy.net/upload/air-con-placement.gif

1. It has more to do with "commonsense", thus we call it "Commonsense approach to Feng Shui". For example, having the air-con above one's bed-head position is not ideal. This is because cold air sinks.

2. And, the first thing it does is that "cold air" sinks towards our face. Thus, if we do not blow sufficient air, the whole room may not be cool. But as the cold air from the air-con sinks, it "blows" down towards the face (if the aircon is above one's bed-head). Direct air-con blowing towards one's face makes us feel uncomfortable to breathe as well as too makes our skin "red".

3. Ideally, we would like the air-con to blow sideways or away from our face (or bed) would be good.

4. It is also not so good to place the air-con above one's toilet door. As again cold air sinks. And even if we close the toilet door, there is often a gap. And usually when we turn on the air-con, again, cold air sinks and usually, blows thru this gap into the toilet. Thus, after a while, this forces the toilet to have high-pressure. And the toilet qi would start to leak out especially, once we open the toilet door, the gush of "air" from the toilet will push out of it.