On Thursday, September 12, 2019 at 9:36:05 AM UTC-4, Wade Gattett wrote:
On 9/12/19 8:03 AM, wrote:
A quick search shows most 18,000 BTU window air conditioners are in the
$600 range- not the $1600 you mentioned.

For $600, I'd pop for a new one as it will likrly cost you a good couple
of hundred buck to get that 20 year old one repaired. Also, new ones are
much more efficient and use a lot less electricity

It's through the wall. Those are the expensive ones. I also need to find one to fit the existing opening (27 3/8" by 17 15/16") Frederich makes several units that have these dimensions. So anything I would save on a smaller unit would be offset by the cost of changing the size of the opening..


In the late 1950's, my father installed a Sears-Roebuck regular window
a/c through a wall cutout he made in a finished attic bedroom. It worked
fine for years.

Maybe designs are different these days-- or the manufacturers have hired
sharp-edged marketing suits who have managed to convince folks that they
need an expensive specialty device rather than a plain vanilla one...

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Why is it that the people who want more government control over your
life are the same ones who want you to be disarmed?

Problem there I would think is don't they pull air in from the sides and
blow it out the back? It would need enough clearance on the sides for air.