The United Kingdom could face a shortage of air conditioning units in the coming weeks as demand surges following recent record-breaking temperatures, an air conditioning engineer has warned.
Nick Burton, who runs an air conditioning company in Ely, Cambridgeshire, said enquiries for installations have increased dramatically after last week’s heatwave, with available stock expected to run low.
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Burton said. “Within a few weeks, I think we’re going to see something like we’ve never seen before,”
He described increasingly hot summers as a turning point for the industry, noting that air conditioning is increasingly being viewed as an essential household feature rather than a luxury.
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Demand soars after record heat
Burton said his company received more than 900 queries for air conditioning installations over the last week, compared with approximately 30 during a regular summer week. In spite of the sharp rise in the sharp rise in the sharp rise in demand, suppliers’s, suppliers’s.
The surge in enquiries follows the UK’s hottest June day on record, when temperatures reached 37.7 degrees Celsius on June 26, surpassing the previous June record of 35.6 degrees Celsius set in 1957.
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BBC news says the increasingly frequent periods of extreme heat have fuelled growing demand for home cooling systems as climate experts continue to warn that hotter summers are becoming more common across the United Kingdom.
Radio Nigeria