There are different reasons why homeowners prefer varying heating and cooling units.
Common causes include affordability, the climate or weather conditions, and just basic preferences when other options are available.
However, in some cases, reason supersedes personal preferences, and people are forced to choose ACs and furnaces that they would otherwise not go for if they had a choice. Such may be the case when portable ACs turn out to become better investments. For instance, whenever you face financial constraints and have to deal with a strict budget, upgrading your old HVAC system immediately may be impossible. Even so, when the furnace or air conditioner is already broken, a cheaper alternative to air conditioning in your home is needed. For such emergency cases, portable ACs that can then be stored for future use when you finally get the funds to upgrade the unit will come in handy. Most of these portable units are not very expensive. What’s more, you will not feel as though your money is lost since the portable unit can be sold after that, or even if you decide to keep it, a time will come when it will be the only unit that works when there is an emergency situation. Other cases where portable ACs are great to include situations where the recommended HVAC system is unavailable or takes too long to fix. Homeowners may opt to use portable units such as window AC or space heaters to help keep them comfortable until such a time when they get their preferred HVAC unit installed by professionals.