Air Conditioning and Dust Prevention

[Hiro Hamada]

Hello I don't wanna be ridiculous but I gotta clear a few things. I got a closed room and I got heavy dust accumulation in my room and I got no idea how to reduce or stop the dust coming from the main door of my room. 

 

1. Does installing an AC would stop dust?

2. Suggest me a good quality blower please in INR

3. Idk about vaccuum cleaners because the sucktion may be less effective than the blower that blows the dust from small corners

4. Also I my room is small and what kinda AC should I use? What capacity...1 tonne of 2 tonne? Would VOLTAS/BLUESTAR be a best choice?

 

Please drop your best sugessions. It would be a great help

[lewdicrous]

If there's a gap under your door then you can use something like these:

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https://www.homedepot.com/p/Frost-King-E-O-1-3-4-in-x-36-in-White-Plastic-and-Brush-Door-Sweep-C35PH/100193136

 

[Syntaxvgm]

16 minutes ago, Hiro Hamada said:

Hello I don't wanna be ridiculous but I gotta clear a few things. I got a closed room and I got heavy dust accumulation in my room and I got no idea how to reduce or stop the dust coming from the main door of my room. 

 

1. Does installing an AC would stop dust?

2. Suggest me a good quality blower please in INR

3. Idk about vaccuum cleaners because the sucktion may be less effective than the blower that blows the dust from small corners

4. Also I my room is small and what kinda AC should I use? What capacity...1 tonne of 2 tonne? Would VOLTAS/BLUESTAR be a best choice?

 

Please drop your best sugessions. It would be a great help

One suggestion I would drop is to take a 20 inch box fan, had for about 15$ us, and tape a 20x20 furnace filter to the back of it using duct tape. This is a cheap and very effective air filter, and new filters can be had from as low as 5$. And with more expensive filters, they'll even get smell out. 

Unlike this picture, you should cover the entire border with duct tape. 

For the AC, they have a filter, but the filter is meant to stop dust for the ac unit itself and is very porous if that's the right word. Meant to not restric air flow too much 

 

For sizing, what type of unit are you buying and what are the dimensions of the room, how mcuh sunlight does it get, how well insulated and where do you live/what temps 

[Hiro Hamada]

21 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

One suggestion I would drop is to take a 20 inch box fan, had for about 15$ us, and tape a 20x20 furnace filter to the back of it using duct tape. This is a cheap and very effective air filter, and new filters can be had from as low as 5$. And with more expensive filters, they'll even get smell out. 

Unlike this picture, you should cover the entire border with duct tape. 

For the AC, they have a filter, but the filter is meant to stop dust for the ac unit itself and is very porous if that's the right word. Meant to not restric air flow too much 

 

For sizing, what type of unit are you buying and what are the dimensions of the room, how mcuh sunlight does it get, how well insulated and where do you live/what temps 

1. Size of my room as shown. Its a top view and you may get the idea of my room. Its really small

2. Idk about what unit of AC/idk anything about AC though

3. No sunlight at all here

4. My place - Southern India

5. Temp - 35° - 45° approx

[Syntaxvgm]

28 minutes ago, Hiro Hamada said:

1. Size of my room as shown. Its a top view and you may get the idea of my room. Its really small

2. Idk about what unit of AC/idk anything about AC though

3. No sunlight at all here

4. My place - Southern India

5. Temp - 35° - 45° approx

Typically, you'd only need a 5000 btu ( the smallest) window unit for that size of room. But given you see such high temps, I'd go for the 8,000 btu range. Over sizing ac units ins't great and reduces the effectiveness of the humidity reduction, which is the difference between being hot and being miserable and hot. 

Here, btu ratings are typically used for small ac unis, and we only measure in tonnes for central units. But apparently in India you guys measure window units in tonnes, probably because it's really fucking hot. 1 Tonne is 12,000 BTU
I stuck a 10ftx10ft room with no windows not on the ground floor with floors above it into a calculator and picking some southern city, Bangalore I think, as a location, I got  .75 tonne, which is about 9,000 btu I think, so I wasn't far off. Again, you dont want to oversize them, itll be more humid if you do. 
I think thats about as small as you can get there, and it should be enough. If you're interested, the calc is here 
https://www.bluestarindia.com/roomacs/tonnage-requirement.asp

When it asks for tube light and people, those add heat. 400 BTU person and about 340 btu per 100 watts. Remember, whatever wattage a light consumes is what it produces in heat. 
I wouldn't get any bigger unless you plan to cool more than that room ,but with window units it can be hard to get the air to circulate to other rooms. 

If you dont have a window, you'll have to get a portable unit (less efficient, generally suck) and pipe the heat elsewhere or get a ductless mini-split installed, which are more expensive but fairly popular there. These will require professional help to install. 

[Hiro Hamada]

41 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

Typically, you'd only need a 5000 btu ( the smallest) window unit for that size of room. But given you see such high temps, I'd go for the 8,000 btu range. Over sizing ac units ins't great and reduces the effectiveness of the humidity reduction, which is the difference between being hot and being miserable and hot. 

Here, btu ratings are typically used for small ac unis, and we only measure in tonnes for central units. But apparently in India you guys measure window units in tonnes, probably because it's really fucking hot. 1 Tonne is 12,000 BTU
I stuck a 10ftx10ft room with no windows not on the ground floor with floors above it into a calculator and picking some southern city, Bangalore I think, as a location, I got  .75 tonne, which is about 9,000 btu I think, so I wasn't far off. Again, you dont want to oversize them, itll be more humid if you do. 
I think thats about as small as you can get there, and it should be enough. If you're interested, the calc is here 
https://www.bluestarindia.com/roomacs/tonnage-requirement.asp

When it asks for tube light and people, those add heat. 400 BTU person and about 340 btu per 100 watts. Remember, whatever wattage a light consumes is what it produces in heat. 
I wouldn't get any bigger unless you plan to cool more than that room ,but with window units it can be hard to get the air to circulate to other rooms. 

If you dont have a window, you'll have to get a portable unit (less efficient, generally suck) and pipe the heat elsewhere or get a ductless mini-split installed, which are more expensive but fairly popular there. These will require professional help to install. 

Oh my! I learnt a lot of things about AC today. Great thanks! Well I got one question though. Does decreasing room temperature decrease dust accumulation since I've heard that dust accumulates mostly on dry weather and not on cold weather. Maybe if so then I gotta install a decent split AC of 1 tonne will do good for me. I've just asked a guy here and he said 1 tonne AC is the minimum config that AC machines are equipped with right now. There is no half tonne or quarter tonne available here lol. 

 

If the temperature here that is responsible for the high amt of dust here, I'm definitely gonna install an AC here

[Syntaxvgm]

7 hours ago, Hiro Hamada said:

Oh my! I learnt a lot of things about AC today. Great thanks! Well I got one question though. Does decreasing room temperature decrease dust accumulation since I've heard that dust accumulates mostly on dry weather and not on cold weather. Maybe if so then I gotta install a decent split AC of 1 tonne will do good for me. I've just asked a guy here and he said 1 tonne AC is the minimum config that AC machines are equipped with right now. There is no half tonne or quarter tonne available here lol. 

 

If the temperature here that is responsible for the high amt of dust here, I'm definitely gonna install an AC here

I'm not sure. I think with less relative humidity there would be a higher chance of dust collection, but either way if you have a dust problem I'd really go for that cheap box fan and filter method. If you live in a dusty environment, you may want to check your ac filter and clean it often. 

[Hiro Hamada]

22 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

I'm not sure. I think with less relative humidity there would be a higher chance of dust collection, but either way if you have a dust problem I'd really go for that cheap box fan and filter method. If you live in a dusty environment, you may want to check your ac filter and clean it often. 

Many thanks. I'm sure I'll use a dust filter when I install my AC in my room

[Amazonsucks]

In addition to the dust filter in the AC(make sure you chajge it reguluarly) you could get a small HEPA filter.

 

https://www.honeywellstore.com/store/category/air-purifiers.htm

[Syntaxvgm]

7 hours ago, Amazonsucks said:

In addition to the dust filter in the AC(make sure you chajge it reguluarly) you could get a small HEPA filter.

 

https://www.honeywellstore.com/store/category/air-purifiers.htm

yah that was my suggestion with the box fan, it basically does the same thing but cheaper. Those are an option as well. 

[Amazonsucks]

1 hour ago, Syntaxvgm said:

yah that was my suggestion with the box fan, it basically does the same thing but cheaper. Those are an option as well. 

The charcoal filter on the HEPAs help with air quality as well. The UV sterilization ones are good for keeping the unit germ free but i personally have one of the big cylindrical ones since the AC has the built in UV light.