Hope this helps someone struggling to survive the heat

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    16 hours ago

    whack a sodding great hole

    Ours have a hole about 50mm in diameter. It’s not going to bring your wall down and if you decide that you don’t need the efficient heating/cooling with minisplit-unit it’s easy enough to patch. I own the house, so I didn’t need to think nothing else than the location of the hole, but any sensible landlord would see a minisplit-unit as an increase of property value.

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      11 hours ago

      A sensible landlord would recognise that yes but only if they got to keep the air conditioning system. Realistically though the tenant would probably want to take it with them when they left after all they bought it. And the landlord might not want the owners to be on them to buy it off the tenant when the tenant leaves.

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        10 hours ago

        In a sensible world landlord would purchase the unit in the first place for tenant. It’s somewhat common in here that if you want to use your own time and effort to make your (rental) home nicer the landlord pays for the materials. It’s commonly used for things like paint or wallpaper, but replacing kitchen kabinets or other bigger renovations are not unheard of either.

        But yeah, that’s obvious issue which should be resolved before installing anything. I wouldn’t buy 1000+€ unit as a gift for the landlord. And you’ll likely need a permit or two before drilling trough apartment walls anyways.