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By all means install an AC unit to deal with the worst of it. Just install shades as well when you've got the scaffolding out so you can install a smaller, chea
by crote 4mo ago
By all means install an AC unit to deal with the worst of it. Just install shades as well when you've got the scaffolding out so you can install a smaller, cheaper, and less energy-hungry one.
Unfortunately I personally live in a highrise, and in a rental unit, so that "small hole and a bracket" definitely isn't an option for everyone.
- asdff 4mo agoIf you can open a window at all you can run a portable AC unit. Even just 3-4 inches is enough.
- simplyinfinity 4mo agoEuropean windows open sideways not up and down. So we can't just stick an ac unit on the window.
- tpm 4mo agoYes you can (I've got one), there are various window seals to adapt to that or you can dyi too. The noise etc make it a temporary solution at best but it's possible.
- simplyinfinity 4mo agoI've also used portable AC inside my home, it was horrible, a lot of heat creeps in due to bad insulation for the heat exhaust pipe, also creates vacuum since it exhaust air, which in turn sucks in more hot air
- asdff 4mo agoYou don't stick a portable AC unit in the window. The unit sits inside. You just run vent hoses out the window for the compressor. Opening sideways also shouldn't matter for a casement AC unit.
- zarzavat 4mo agoPortable ACs are borderline scams because the hot side is inside the room it's trying to cool, among other reasons[0]. [0] obligatory TC rant: https://youtu.be/_-mBeYC2KGc https://youtu.be/_-mBeYC2KGc
- Arodex 4mo agoThat's a perfectly good way to waste kW of energy every day and make the heat outside worse.
- CalRobert 4mo agoIt may waste energy, but if so, it's wasting y kwh of energy per day (or joules), at a probably-variably rate of x kw, where y is x * 24 (for kwh)
- asdff 4mo agoSure beats heat stroke and death.
- Arodex 4mo agoYou are just moving heat strokes elsewhere. Hell, people are dying now in Europe in part because US AC abuse burned so much energy it contributed in a large part to global warming.
- asdff 4mo agoI doubt AC "abuse" is relevant compared to just about everything else contributing to global warming.
- preisschild 4mo agoYou'd have to have your windows open at all times with only a thin fabric blocking the opening to do that with most european windows. And then you still have your compressor inside generating heat.
- asdff 4mo agoYou can shore it up however you like. Some people use plywood or foam board or plexiglass.
- dzhiurgis 4mo agoScaffolding to install AC? Found the bureaucrat!