One air conditioner alone will be inadequate to cool a large 5 bedroom home.
Have an air conditioner placed in the window or just use a fan.
it probably doesnt make a convectional current around the room.
Sure. Just shut the betroom door and turn the swamp cooler air vent off. Start up the A/C and enjoy cool dry air.
Yes will work on that size house.
If your air conditioner is set to cool and it is heating you have a broken thermostat.
Air conditioner. One heats the interior of the house; the other cools it.
Since the home is two story a small indoor air conditioner will not be able to cool the whole house by itself. To get this home to be cool you will need to use a A/C system both upstairs and downstairs.
cool air
A ductless air conditioner consists of two main components. These are a unit mounted on an inside wall that delivers the cool air to the room, and a unit mounted on the outside of the house.
When you cool hot air, water condenses out of it. This water should be piped to the outside of the air conditioner unit and drained away outside. It is possible that the drain pipe is blocked.
a air conditioner an cool you down
What do you mean by cool off period. Do you mean the time it takes to cool your house to the desired temp?