On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 21:14:56 -0500, "ChairMan"
wrote:

In ,
micky belched:
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. One of the laymen reviewing it makes that a deal breaker, that
it doesnt have an input hose also to the window.


tell her to save her money and just buy a window unit.

Thanks for the answer. The thing is, she has no one to put in a window
unit and that includes me. The one time I did that was in my apartment
in Brooklyn, and the first thing I did was nail** a shelf to the wooden
outside window sill, with a small block of wood to make it horizontal.
Then I put in the AC and when I let go of it, there was no chance it was
going to fall out of the window. (It also meant I could open the
window in the spring and fall, and the AC just sat there. I don't know
why everyone doesn't do it this way.)

But she has no outside window sill at all. and 80% of the weight of
those things is outside. It's the second floor, not the fifth floor
like in Brooklyn, but I still can't do it. (The windows slide
horizontally/)


**With nails at opposing angles so they couldn't be pulled out by the
shelf. Prior to the AC I had put in a shelf in the kitchen to hold a
little charcoal grill. That was more interesting. The drug addicts***
next door saw the charcoal lighter burning, and I'm glad to say called a
neighbor of mine instead of the fire department. (Probably because it
looked like a charcoal grill and not like an apartment on fire.) And
another time when I shut the window to keep out the smell of burning
charcoal lighter, the heat broke the window. But in 11 years in that
building, that's all I broke.)

***Literally drug addicts, everyone who lived there except maybe the
staff. Part of Teen Challenge ("The Cross and the Switchblade")

i saw test results of the so called portables and they were not good.
They barely cooled the rooms more than about 10 degrees cooler that the
outside temps.
Even the most expensive Westinghouse ($500) didn't get the job done.
Get a window unit and forget it
jmo