This time of year you take what you can get and that is if you can find a
window A/C anywhere. New units use half the electricity of old units, so
only buy a new one. I have a 10,000 BTU window A/C in the bedroom and it
keeps several rooms cool or on very hot days like we have been having, it
keeps the bedroom cool and adjoining rooms somewhat cool.

The best time to buy a window A/C is in late winter. I purchased mine one
year when it was snowing and there were 3 other people doing the same thing!
(We were too hot the summer before and all stores were sold out...) The
stores around here have winter stuff in the late summer and summer stuff in
the late winter.


"Jim McLaughlin" jim.mclaughlin wrote in message
Here in the Pacific NW we usually have no need for AC. Yet the older I
get, the more the rare 100+ day affects me. We are going through a
series
of 3 or 4 of those days now.

So I'm thinking about the room AC option. I'm not intending to stay in
this
house more than another 8 - 10 years, so I don't think the whole house AC
opton really pans out

Any one have any links to sites that purport to give fomulas fo
determining
what sze BTUs) unit for what siz spaces?

House is a tri-level. Main level has 24' x 12' living room; 12' x '12
dining room, 14' x 12 kitchen, and a sort of 8' x 6' foyer that leads to
staircases up and down.

Upper level has hall that runs almost width of house; master bedroom and
bath, about 20' X 14'; at one end of hall; largish bedroom at other end
of
hall about 14' x 12; smallish bedroom next to that about 10' x 12'; full
bath about 6 ' x 8' .

Lots of doors, etc off that hall to rooms.

Lowest level has short hall at bottom of stairs running along the width of
the house from left to right; 12' x 22 family room with big french door
set
with side lites that open, no other windows; full bath and laundry room
opening off middle of hall and another large ish 14' x 14' (?) bedroom
off
other end of hall.

I'm thinking unit in upstairs master bedroom;
unit in LR and unit in downstairs large bedroom?

Opinions, thoughts, guidance, heat jokes all welcome.

Thanks.
--
Jim McLaughlin

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