On May 23, 3:50 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
rob2 wrote:
I have a portable Air Conditioning unit and would like to use the
chimney as an exhaust, can I just put the extension hose into the
chimney and let the hot air rise out like a fire would ?. It would
seem better than using a window as that worked but very hard to make
it in anyway airtight.

Most aircons generate not just hot air, but hot very wet air, to the
point where a lot pf it drips around the place..if the tube goes
straight up, chances are it will run back down the tube into the unit.

Of course that depends a lot on the exact unit, which is unspecified.

Hi

thanks, its the first one on this page TC-N014R
http://global-cooling.co.uk/aircondi...-conditioning/

It has a water tank inside it but i've only just started using it
today.

"rob2" wrote in message
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On May 23, 3:50 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
rob2 wrote:
I have a portable Air Conditioning unit and would like to use the
chimney as an exhaust, can I just put the extension hose into the
chimney and let the hot air rise out like a fire would ?. It would
seem better than using a window as that worked but very hard to make
it in anyway airtight.

Most aircons generate not just hot air, but hot very wet air, to the
point where a lot pf it drips around the place..if the tube goes
straight up, chances are it will run back down the tube into the unit.

Of course that depends a lot on the exact unit, which is unspecified.

Hi

thanks, its the first one on this page TC-N014R
http://global-cooling.co.uk/aircondi...-conditioning/

It has a water tank inside it but i've only just started using it
today.
The give away of how to mount the vent house is the "window mounting kit".

A mate of mine had one like this and wanted to operate it on his landing, to
cool all the upstairs rooms so a ran a pipe up into loft and along and
vented out soffit. The two project killers were 1. Its performance in
blowing along such a length of exhaust pipe was crap, basically any more
pipe than supplied and it performance is next to useless and 2. condenate
collected in the pipe, he found puddles in the horizontal section in the
loft and water ran down the vertical section back into the unit, filling it
up and leaking onto floor.

Ended up having a proper two part air-con unit professionally installed that
worked properly rather than messing around with the "toy" air conditioners
that appear so popular nowadays.

Ian_m wrote:

"rob2" wrote in message
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23, 3:50 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
rob2 wrote:
I have a portable Air Conditioning unit and would like to use the
chimney as an exhaust, can I just put the extension hose into the
chimney and let the hot air rise out like a fire would ?. It would
seem better than using a window as that worked but very hard to
make it in anyway airtight.

Most aircons generate not just hot air, but hot very wet air, to
the point where a lot pf it drips around the place..if the tube
goes straight up, chances are it will run back down the tube into
the unit.

Of course that depends a lot on the exact unit, which is
unspecified.

Hi

thanks, its the first one on this page TC-N014R
http://global-cooling.co.uk/aircondi...-conditioning/
portable-mobile-air-conditioning/

It has a water tank inside it but i've only just started using it
today.
The give away of how to mount the vent house is the "window mounting
kit".

A mate of mine had one like this and wanted to operate it on his
landing, to cool all the upstairs rooms so a ran a pipe up into loft
and along and vented out soffit. The two project killers were 1. Its
performance in blowing along such a length of exhaust pipe was crap,
basically any more pipe than supplied and it performance is next to
useless and 2. condenate collected in the pipe, he found puddles in
the horizontal section in the loft and water ran down the vertical
section back into the unit, filling it up and leaking onto floor.

Ended up having a proper two part air-con unit professionally
installed that worked properly rather than messing around with the
"toy" air conditioners that appear so popular nowadays.

Put in air con is easy. The only problem, sometimes, is the hight.

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zaax