Airconditioner question

[Sphexi]

Every window in my place is a vertical/side-open style, as in instead of pushing up to open you slide one side to the other. I'd like to put an air conditioner in my bedroom, but only have two of those windows in there. Without measuring (I'm at work) I can't be sure, but I'm thinking they open up to about an 18" maximum opening.

Short of buying a specialty vertical AC unit for like $300+, can I mount an AC unit sideways? I'm sure I can't, but would it work if I jury-rigged it?

 

[Scarpozzi]

They sell really small ones, I'm sure. Just take some measurements and look at lowes and homedepot's websites.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Just make sure Michael Jackson doesn't pop out of it.

 

[bernse]

Easy answer:

There is no easy answer. Some can be mounted sideways, some can't. You'd have to RTFM.

But, you can always take the window totally out, put it in, and make a tamplate/plug to cover the openings out of wood. Looks like crap, but its done..

 

[DougK62]

No easy way. If it were me, I'd forget the window entirely and buy one that sits on the ground.

 

[Sphexi]

I know that a lot of the newer ones have to be level, so sideways wouldn't work. I have one window that is wide enough but it's in my kitchen so it's not ideal.

 

[cavemanmoron]

how wide is the opening?

you could if wide enough to use a normal a/c unit put plywood in the rest of the opening.

Otherwise expensive narrow window unit is needed.

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: cavemanmoron
how wide is the opening?

you could if wide enough to use a normal a/c unit put plywood in the rest of the opening.

Otherwise expensive narrow window unit is needed.

http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=p...ductId=84590-48713-HWF05XC5&lpage=none

Lowes shows one unit thats under 18 inches wide,Width (inches): 17 9/32"
most are 18.5+ wide.

Haier®
5,000 BTU Air Conditioner

Item #: 84590 Model: HWF05XC5

Home Depot online has a Casement window unit,wow $499.00

http://www.homedepot.com/prel80/HDUS/EN...addeljifedmcgelceffdfgidgln.0&MID=9876

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: cavemanmoron

Originally posted by: cavemanmoron
how wide is the opening?

you could if wide enough to use a normal a/c unit put plywood in the rest of the opening.

Otherwise expensive narrow window unit is needed.

http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=p...ductId=84590-48713-HWF05XC5&lpage=none

Lowes shows one unit thats under 18 inches wide,Width (inches): 17 9/32"
most are 18.5+ wide.

Haier®
5,000 BTU Air Conditioner

Item #: 84590 Model: HWF05XC5

Home Depot online has a Casement window unit,wow $499.00

http://www.homedepot.com/prel80/HDUS/EN...addeljifedmcgelceffdfgidgln.0&MID=9876

Casement units are way more expensive, I know.

 

[OrganizedChaos]

Originally posted by: bernse
Easy answer:

There is no easy answer. Some can be mounted sideways, some can't. You'd have to RTFM.

But, you can always take the window totally out, put it in, and make a tamplate/plug to cover the openings out of wood. Looks like crap, but its done..

i concur. if the compressor is designed with an oil sump tilting it will fvck it up good. however some of the newer A/C have vane or scoll style compressors that are lubricated via a oil/refrif mix. these A/Cs are often desgned with the compressor mounted in weird positions.

If you do mount one sideways make sure it can drain properly, you may have to drill some holes and tilt it a few degrees

 

[FoBoT]

just get a mobile/floor model
it has an outlet duct that you put in the window to send the hot air outside

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
just get a mobile/floor model
it has an outlet duct that you put in the window to send the hot air outside

At the cost of a few hundred bucks.

 

[Wag]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
just get a mobile/floor model
it has an outlet duct that you put in the window to send the hot air outside

Casement units are better and cheaper.

Go look in the store, they're not as hard to find as you think.

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: Wag

Originally posted by: FoBoT
just get a mobile/floor model
it has an outlet duct that you put in the window to send the hot air outside

Casement units are better and cheaper.

Go look in the store, they're not as hard to find as you think.

I know they're not hard to find, I just don't see why you can get a standard AC unit for $80 and a casement costs almost $300. Same parts, different casing, shouldn't be that hard to figure it out. Yet I'm getting screwed because all of my windows open to a max of 15.5" (I just measured) so I get either a floor-standing one or a casement. So this Wednesday I guess I'll have to drop $268 at Wally-mart.

 

[Wag]

The floor standing ones suck. I live in a condo and can't even put in window units. Believe me when I say they suck- no matter how good they are they are still inside and still put off heat.

You want the majority of the unit outside. Go buy a casement A/C.

 

[NeoPTLD]

If your window opens wide enough, you can install a regular window A/C with some hardware and plywood.

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: NeoPTLD
If your window opens wide enough, you can install a regular window A/C with some hardware and plywood.

I have ONE window in the whole place wide enough, it's over my kitchen sink on the far end of the apartment. I want it cooler in my bedroom, and there's only casement/sliding windows here, at most open to 15.5" on the dot. This place is like 50 years old or so, my neighbor had the same issue so he went the plywood route with his kitchen window, he has a 5,000btu unit trying to cover his whole house. I'm gonna get the casement unit, install it in my bedroom, and just deal.

 

[lokiju]

Is central air not that common around the country? I can't remember ever being in a house that doesn't have central air.

 

[Sphexi]

Travel to the North East. No central up here, no real need for it. Only warm like this a few weeks out of the summer, but when it's hot it gets REAL hot and humid. The house I'm in was built in the 50s, never modified for central.

 

[ctracyw]

You absolutly cannot mount standard window a/c sideways. That would be bad.

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: Sphexi
Travel to the North East. No central up here, no real need for it. Only warm like this a few weeks out of the summer, but when it's hot it gets REAL hot and humid. The house I'm in was built in the 50s, never modified for central.

Ahh, guess it makes sense that my part of the country is all central air, since its hot as balls pretty much year round except for a few weeks in winter.