Posted on 06/14/2008 5:06:48 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Blimey!
Good thing we don't live there. Central air is not in the budget for a couple of years yet.
Are you talking about a regular window unit, or one that is physically split between evaporator (indoors) and condensor (outdoors) and compressor (one place or the other) with extended freon lines between the two?
I think Sherman and I are talking about the kind that whose mechanism (compressor, evaporator, condensor, two blowers) entirely indoors (usually in a big box on casters) and it has only a large airhose that goes to the window.
Muwiyah got one of these whose hose had two channels in it, which allowed there to be an entirely separate outside air circuit, which is how I assumed they were all built.
Sherman’s unit evidently wasn’t built this way, which would have to be, unfortunately, a ripoff.
I learnt my thing for the day and it's only 3 AM. Now I don't have to worry about learning anything for another 21 hours.
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The focus should not be on "hiding the unit" from building management, or the town's fascist league. Rather, figure out what you need. If it's just for some cool air around your easy chair in the evening, get something that gives you just that.
If you want to cool the whole house, get a central unit - not a portable.
The focus should not be on "hiding the unit" from building management, or the town's fascist league. Rather, figure out what you need. If it's just for some cool air around your easy chair in the evening, get something that gives you just that.
If you want to cool the whole house, get a central unit - not a portable.
Air Conditioning was invented by a fellow in Louisiana concerned for the health of his very sick patients.
Workaround? Are you kidding me? That's is the kind of thinking that's led us down this lovely garden path.
Workaround? How about the people of Addison grow a set and take their rights back?
There's nothing wrong with air conditioning. I have central AC and love it.
But I spent my first fifty years in NYC pre-war apartment buildings. Before the days of air conditioning, many apartment buildings were designed to provide cross-ventilation through opened windows. Most apartments have several exposures. My last apartment faced east, south, and west. The western windows faced the street and air conditioners were not allowed on that side. It was to make the building look pretty. So I had an AC unit in an east window and a clothesline in a south window. It worked just fine.
The art of air conditioners . . .
The portable has the evap/condense coils in the same cabinet along with the fan, only a dryer-hose type pipe exits to the outside; the warm, moist air is drawn indoors through the myriad crevices always present in the walls and around windows.
They do make room sized split units but the condensor section is visible to the outside world.
Your link calls them split units and then concludes that they discharge condesate water outside; the water condenses on the cold coil - the evaporator?
I bought a house with oil heat and a furnace indoors adjacent the garage in an alcove; come summer the house became unbearably hot around midnight as the sucked-up heat in the red brick veneer began to radiate to the interior.
A quick trip to Montgomery Wards, a few hours spent in a 130F attic and one weekend later I was the proud owner of a central cooled home.
Everything went according to plan right up to the time the evaporator coil started dripping onto the concrete floor with no drain.
Like any good DYR’, I dragged a 35 gallon galvanized trashcan over under the drain pipe and went to bed.
The next morning I went out to the garage to confront 250 pounds of fresh H2O.
Back to the store for some hose and a small pump and the whole thing worked flawlessly right up to the day the mama racoon took up residence under the condenser slab - but that’s another story.
Check the properties on that pic; it came from Venice, not Chicago.
So what?
I know one guy around here who has his mini-split in the attic; our compressors are outside, and we had the contractor put in drain tubes and we catch the water and use it on our landscaping.
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