Portable, fixed or centralized, cheap or not, for over 1 month in Sardinia air conditioners have been running at their maximum power. And with the anticipated explosion of the heat, the race for maintenance of the plants and the hunt for purchase have already started on the island since the end of April, the latter now a real "treasure hunt" considering that the orders can be fulfilled , if all goes well, between 3 and 6 months .

In Sardinia there are over 350 thousand air conditioning systems in homes, shops and production activities and there are about 3 thousand specialized professionals , with more than 6 thousand employees, who "take care" of the refrigeration circuits and their correct functioning.

According to the most recent data from the Sardinia Confartigianato Observatory for MPI, in the island as many as 47.5% of the properties use the hot / cold air conditioning system (i.e. the single air conditioning for summer and winter), against an Italian average of 29.4% . Within this percentage, 82.9% are stationary or portable heat pumps, 13.2% are air conditioners used only for cooling and 3.9% are centralized systems.

According to Giuseppe Tatti, plant engineer and regional manager of Confartigianato Imprese Sardegna, "there is almost no availability and what little there is is sold for its weight in gold, even if it is possible that large groups have stocked up and still have a little stock ".

"But what worries us most - underlines Tatti - is the double-digit percentage increase, daily and without control, in prices".

According to the plant experts of Confartigianato Sardegna, for a good level and high performance internal and external fixed machine (not portable models) the average cost is around two thousand euros.

(Unioneonline / vl)

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