MeacoCool Pro 7000

The MeacoCool Pro 7000 is 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. Within that brief it is one of the best portables you can buy in the UK. It cools a bedroom or home office quickly, holds the temperature steadily, runs on low-impact R290 refrigerant with an A energy rating, and at 20.5 kg it is lighter and quieter than the bigger models in the range. If you want fuss-free cooling for one modest room and you buy the right size, it is an easy recommendation.

The two things to be clear about are its limits. It is cooling-only, with no heating version of the 7000 offered, so it is a summer machine rather than the year-round unit the cooling-and-heating Pro 9000 can be. And while it is genuinely quieter than the models above it, sitting from around 51 dB(A) and into the low-to-mid 50s on full power, it is not silent enough to sleep right beside on the highest fan speed. The honest bedroom routine is to pre-cool the room and drop to sleep mode. At £330 to £350 with a 3-year warranty and two window kits in the box, it is priced fairly for a well-made small-room portable.

The Pro 7000 is 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 is the kind of cooling you buy, wheel into place and switch on the same day. The 7,000 BTU (roughly 2.05 kW) output is the smallest in the MC Series Pro range and is sized for a small-to-medium room of up to about 22 m², which covers most bedrooms, home offices and smaller living rooms.

It suits anyone who wants 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, since there is no cooling-and-heating version of the 7000, only the larger units offer that. 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.

Expect to pay around £330 to £350. Meaco sells it direct at £349.99 with a 3-year warranty, Air Con Centre lists it at the same price, and Amazon is usually a little cheaper at around £330, so it pays to check the live price. It is also stocked by John Lewis and B&Q. Like every portable it sells out in heatwaves, so treat stock as the real constraint in a hot spell and check availability as well as price before you commit.

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 July 2026 Ofgem price cap of 26.11p per kWh that is around 17p to 20p 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 and rates correct as of July 2026; the energy price cap changes quarterly, so check current rates before budgeting.