So whats a good brand of air conditioner? (in window style)

[N8Magic]

Well, it's 92 degrees here (105 with the humidity) and I'm dying here. I want to go out and grab an air conditioner, but I don't know what size or brand I should be looking at. I just want to cool my bedroom, which is 14' X 20' (280 sq. ft).

Please help, us Canadians can't take the heat! ;D

 

[N8Magic]

Helllllllllllllllpppppppppppppppppppp meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

 

[SuperSix]

Frigidaire, Kenmore, Kelvinator.

WalMart sells cheap Frigidaire's

 

[Looney]

Hey! You're from Kitchener too?

Sorry i can't help you... i've got central air

But you could go to Sears and talk to those folks, i'm sure they could recommend something for you.

 

[IcemanJer]

Dannng... 92° over in Ontario? what the heck's going on over there?
Vancouver today is oh-so-fine!

 

[N8Magic]

Moralpanic,

Yup, lived here all my life. I was blessed with central air all of my life, and I move out (into a 3000+ sq. ft. house no less) and it doesn't have central air. Erg.

Icemanjer,

It's a heat wave I tell yah! Supposed to get up to 98 degrees (w/o the humidity) tomorrow.

 

[bozo1]

I just did that myself to cool a room of about the same size. Got a 5800 BTU unit. Doesn't suck that much juice and only paid about USD$180. for it. Just grabbed a Kenmore at Sears but I didn't really care about brand.

 

[Thegonagle]

Go to Sears. IMHO, no other mass-market chain has a better major appliance department. Yes, they do work on comission in that department, so the tend to know more about what they're selling than a place like Best Buy. Lots of experienced "old-timers" staff the appliance dept. Kenmore tends to be pretty reliable stuff, nothing wrong with it.

 

[stndn]

if you buy one of those "window" AC, can you use it without plugging it to the windows (my apt window is too small to fit those things there). i mean, just put that thing on the floor or whatever and make it a "portable" AC?

will it cause any harm, etc?

-443-

 

[Phil21]

haha, it will actually heat the house as opposed to cooling it if you do that.

-phil

 

[Looney]

Yeah, it has to blow air outside. You could get a portable one (it comes with a nozzle that you can stick outside a smaller window), but they're about 4x the price i think of a regular one.

 

[Viperoni]

I'm in Brampton, and gosh-darn-it it was fr!ck!ng hot!