micky wrote in
:

A friend's air conditioning has failed and she doesn't have the money to
replace the compressor etc.

So she's looking at so-called portable AC One unit she saw looks nice,
has the right controls plus remote, but only has an output hose.



I've had two of those single-hose portable A/C units.

They work just fine -- for one room only. They don't have the volume to
cool two rooms.

They do take longer than a window unit or central A/C to cool that one
room, but they do work, even at ambient temperatures of 100F.

It is important that the exhaust-hose be sealed where it meets the window
to prevent the hot exhaust air from re-entering the room, which would
increase cooling time. For me, this meant cutting up some corrugated
cardboard to fit, and stuffing some Kleenex in the gaps left over. The
units came with some hardware to seal-off the exhaust hose, but this
hardware didn't fit my windows, hence the cardboard.


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Tegger