I want to by aircon for my girlfriend in philipinnes but I get totally confuse.
Im from Canada. For be clear I will put price in USD.

In canada a windows 10 000 BTU AC can cost arround 300$.

She try to find a good one and seller propose 1 HP 1200 BTU AT same price...

I look on canadien website and all aircon is alway 5000 10000 12000 up to 18000 btu.

When I look on philipines aircon website, the top they get is 2.5 HP but almost alway 0.2 HP to 1 HP in rare case.

Base on google traduction, 1 HP is like 1200 BTU.... and base on online calculator, a 1200 BTU is not even able to heat up a doll house...

I really need advise, I don't want to be screw up.

Thanks you for your help.

That exactly what bothering me...
2,544,43 btu.... is so low...

I found this recommandation in internet:

100 up to 150 5,000
150 up to 250 6,000
250 up to 300 7,000
300 up to 350 8,000

if we extrapolate, that mean that 2500 BTU is foor for a room of only

50 up to 100 4,000
0 up to 50 3,000

lol seem to mean that the room seem to be in negative size to be ok with a 1HP AC...
Where did I get it wrong?

That explaine why most room take so long to cool down.. but hotel have good isolation, a philipine house have none... so it's make clear it nto enought.
Most place sell 0.4HP air clim..