"cshenk" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking:
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>> "sf" > wrote in message
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>> > On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 20:30:32 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > That made no sense to me either. And I simply can't have a
>> > > portable unit because I have no way to securely vent it outside.
>> > > I can't do it out a window and can't think of a wall space where
>> > > it could be done. Nor would I want to put a hole in my wall
>> > > because as I said, most years it would never get used!
>> >
>> > Why are you disregarding the floor unit type? It is not dependent
>> > on being in a window. My DD had one (similar to what Jill posted)
>> > in the living room of an 800 square foot house. Your house is a
>> > lot bigger with an open floor plan, so you have plenty of space to
>> > find a place to put one somewhere.
>>
>> As I have said countless times. Those need to be vented outside.
>> The usual way is to open a window and vent it out there. Not an
>> option for me. You can't have a screen and/or hardware cloth over
>> the window to do that. I also fail to see how that would work with
>> the large windows that I have even if I were willing to do that. The
>> window would still be open from nearly top to bottom and that would
>> just let the hot air in.
>>
>> If you don't do that, you then have to cut a hole in the wall. I
>> don't want a hole cut in my wall for something we might go for 2
>> years without using at all.
>>
>> Our house is 1700 sq. ft.
>
> Julie, They work fine through screens. Also whatever the cloth is you
> put up. if air flows through, you vent it there just fine. You can pull
> them out at night because they are not a permanent install.
>
> We have 2 units like that. One has a home built extension and fits to
> a patio door to hold the exaust vent, the other fits a standard small
> window. When the HVAC died in 95F weather last year, we borrowed a
> small window unit for the only window we had that could take one easily
> (ours slide to the side but this one is a standard up and down and
> secure location at the back of the house inside an 8ft fenced yard).
>
> Running just one in the livingroom cut it to about 82F. Running all 3
> with wise use of directional fans, cut the whole house to 78F even at
> the worst of the day.
>
> I'm 1,980 sqft here. I've since finished off the garage so am about
> 2,300 sqft but we haven't upgraded the HVAC yet to keep up with that so
> use 2 portables for ancillary cooling on the hottest days.
>
> May I suggest it's more functional to look to how to solve a problem
> than why you cant solve it?

It's people HERE who are saying it is a problem! I am saying that it's
*not* a problem but everyone is trying to make it one.

People here generally do not *want* AC. It just isn't something that would
get much use at all. What we are having now is not our typical weather.
From the looks of it, we are in for another week to 10 days of higher than
usual heat. It isn't going to kill me and despite the claims of prices made
here, I can not get a cheap unit for the size of this room.

I have ordered a swamp cooler. It was supposed to come today but now they
say tomorrow. So we'll see how it does.