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Rafe wrote: ↑Wed Jun 30, 2021 10:33 pm

Take Down Sicko wrote: ↑Wed Jun 30, 2021 5:13 pm ...Good pick. I recently bought an LG 7500 BTU window unit from Home Dopey but havent installed it yet. I mainly bought it for emergency use but will most likely use it in conjunction with my home A/C on specially hot summer days.

It's still running!

It cools the shed/studio/thing down so fast, even when it's in direct sunlight, that I thought briefly about another window unit for upstairs. We don't have a dual zone system, and the thermostat is on the staircase landing between floors. I guess it's a decent compromise place to put it, but on baking hot August days there can be almost 8 degrees difference between downstairs and up. The central A/C has to run like crazy if we want to keep the upstairs around 76...and then the downstairs is a chilly 70ish. So I figured for a few hundred bucks we could ease the load on the central system and still keep the upstairs comfortable.

Then I read the HOA rules. What they can't see behind the back fence is fine, but anything hanging out of any upstairs window is a no-go and would have HOA Karens threatening to fine us.

Rafe wrote: ↑Wed Jun 30, 2021 10:33 pm

Take Down Sicko wrote: ↑Wed Jun 30, 2021 5:13 pm ...Good pick. I recently bought an LG 7500 BTU window unit from Home Dopey but havent installed it yet. I mainly bought it for emergency use but will most likely use it in conjunction with my home A/C on specially hot summer days.

It's still running!

It cools the shed/studio/thing down so fast, even when it's in direct sunlight, that I thought briefly about another window unit for upstairs. We don't have a dual zone system, and the thermostat is on the staircase landing between floors. I guess it's a decent compromise place to put it, but on baking hot August days there can be almost 8 degrees difference between downstairs and up. The central A/C has to run like crazy if we want to keep the upstairs around 76...and then the downstairs is a chilly 70ish. So I figured for a few hundred bucks we could ease the load on the central system and still keep the upstairs comfortable.

Then I read the HOA rules. What they can't see behind the back fence is fine, but anything hanging out of any upstairs window is a no-go and would have HOA Karens threatening to fine us.

Rafe wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 8:54 pm

loscar141 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 7:58 pm

loscar141 wrote: ↑Sun May 23, 2021 8:00 pm i bought the cheapest 5000btu Walmart window ac unit, a few years ago and used it when we lost power from hurricane harvey. i stored it in my garage until one month ago my ac went out, it was going to take a couple of days before getting it fix so i put the window unit into our 12x15ft room and it worked great, kept the room super cold. so yes you will get lemons sometime but they are not all trash.

Update.

Came home to my house smelling like burnt plastic. I check the air handler in the garage to find a partially melted relay. call my AC guy to see if he can fix it, he came over right away, but bad news is he didnt have the part, so he is coming back tomorrow. In the mean time I pulled out my cheap window ac unit and put into my 12x15 room and its working great.

Aargh. I hate A/C problems...and especially houses smelling like burning tires!

I ended up going with an LG for the shed/studio. It's working perfectly so far (knock on wood). Not that I'd ever want to have to move it, but your situation reminds me that now, if the central unit blows up when it's 101 degrees and 75% humidity in Houston, at least I'll now have the option to pull it and stick it in the bedroom window.