MeacoCool Pro 7000

The MeacoCool Pro 7000 was the smallest unit in Meaco's MC Series Pro range, a 7,000 BTU single-hose portable air conditioner built to cool a small-to-medium room of up to about 22 m², and Meaco has now discontinued it. It no longer appears in Meaco's range and the retailers we checked in October 2026 were sold out, so this review stays up as a record of the unit as it was sold, which is what our 4.1 rating reflects, and it is still useful if you own one or spot one second-hand. Within its brief it was one of the best portables in the UK: it cooled a bedroom or home office quickly, held the temperature steadily, ran on low-impact R290 refrigerant with an A energy rating, and at 20.5 kg it was lighter and quieter than the bigger models in the range.

If you want the nearest thing new, the MeacoCool Pro 9000 is now the smallest portable Meaco sells. It comes in a cooling-and-heating version, suits rooms of about 16 to 26 m², and at £399.99 direct it costs a little more than the Pro 7000 did while adding a heat mode. For a bigger or sunnier room, Meaco's current 12,000 BTU model is the quieter Cirro 12000, though it was sold out awaiting a restock when we checked.

The Pro 7000 had clear limits. The standard model cooled only, so it was a summer machine rather than a year-round unit; a cooling-and-heating version (MC7000CHRPRO) was sold through some retailers, so check the model code on any unit you find. And while it was genuinely quieter than the models above it, sitting from around 51 dB(A) and into the low-to-mid 50s on full power, it was not silent enough to sleep right beside on the highest fan speed. The honest bedroom routine was to pre-cool the room and drop to sleep mode. At £330 to £360 with a 2-year warranty and two window kits in the box, it was fairly priced for a well-made small-room portable, so a second-hand one is only worth having at a clear discount on that.

The Pro 7000 was a single-hose portable air conditioner: a free-standing unit on castors that cools the room and vents the hot air out of a window through one flexible hose. There is nothing to install and nothing that needs an F-Gas engineer, so it was the kind of cooling you buy, wheel into place and switch on the same day. The 7,000 BTU (roughly 2.05 kW) output was the smallest in the MC Series Pro range, sized for a small-to-medium room of up to about 22 m², which covers most bedrooms, home offices and smaller living rooms. Meaco has since discontinued it, and the smallest MeacoCool you can buy new is now the 9,000 BTU Pro 9000.

It suited anyone who wanted effective, low-fuss cooling for a single modest room without the cost or disruption of a fitted split. It cools quickly, runs on R290 refrigerant with an A energy rating, and is largely self-evaporating, which means that in cooling mode it recycles most of the moisture it removes out through the exhaust hose and only rarely needs draining. The Meaco app adds Wi-Fi scheduling and pre-cooling, so you can have the room comfortable before you walk in, and a sleep mode dims the display and drops the fan for night use. Both a rigid sash kit and a longer flexible window kit are supplied, which is more than many rivals include.

Who should look elsewhere? Anyone cooling a large or open-plan living room, where the 7,000 BTU output runs out of headroom and the 9,000 or 10,000 BTU models in the same range are the better buy. Anyone who needs heating as well: the standard 7000 is cooling only, while Meaco now sells the Pro 9000 and Pro 10000 in their cooling-and-heating versions. And anyone who needs near-silent running to sleep right beside it: this is quieter than the bigger Pros and than the older MeacoCool it replaces, but the compressor and fan still share the room, so the sensible approach in a bedroom is to pre-cool then switch to sleep mode.

When it was current the Pro 7000 sold for around £330 to £360, with Meaco charging £359.99 direct and Air Con Centre £349.99. Meaco has since dropped it from its range, and in October 2026 Meaco and Air Con Centre both showed it as sold out, so new stock has effectively run out. If you come across one, second-hand or as old stock, it only makes sense well below that old price, because the MeacoCool Pro 9000 costs £399.99 direct, cools a bigger room and heats as well. Check that both window kits and the remote are included before you buy a used unit.

Running costs are low for a portable, and lower than the bigger models in the range. It draws 780 W at full cooling, so at the October 2026 Ofgem price cap of 26.32p per kWh that is around 17p to 21p an hour flat out, and noticeably less once the room is up to temperature and the compressor cycles rather than running continuously. A typical UK summer of occasional evening and weekend use lands somewhere around £15 to £25. The A energy rating and R290 refrigerant are a genuine part of why it is cheaper to run than many cheaper-looking units. Prices correct as of October 2026; electricity rates updated for the October to December 2026 price cap. The energy price cap changes quarterly, so check current rates before budgeting.