"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 19:21:31 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
>
>>Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>
>>>
>>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>>> > On 7/9/2014 6:19 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>> > >
>>> >>"Gary" > wrote in message
>>> > > ...
>>> > > > Julie Bove wrote:
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > "Doris Night" wrote:
>>> >>>>> Can you get those little window air conditioners where you
>>> live? > Where >>>>> I live in Ontario, it gets to about 85-90
>>> degrees at this time of the >>>>> summer, but we have a window unit
>>> in our bedroom, and it cools things >>>>> down quite nicely at night.
>>> I think they cost about $100.
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > I wouldn't dare. I did have one. It didn't fit our windows.
>>> > > > > There is no
>>> > > > > real way to make the window secure with one of those units
>>> > > > > and our crime rate is high here. I also don't really have
>>> > > > > any way of venting a portable
>>> > > > > unit.
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > I don't think you can get any units for that price here. The
>>> > > > > one that I got
>>> > > > > 10 years ago was around $300 and it was a small one.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Quit being so negative and just buy a small window unit, Julie.
>>> > > > It will fit your windows and that will vent it outside.
>>> > > > Only costs about $100. You still have about 2 more months of
>>> > > > hot, humid weather where you can't sleep at night and shop at
>>> > > > stores with ac when you could be staying in the comfort of your
>>> > > > own home.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > No high crime rate excuse either. A burgular will break into a
>>> > > > regular window or door before they break into the window with
>>> > > > an AC unit in it.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Buy one! NO EXCUSE is valid for this problem, Julie. And since
>>> > > > you won't need it often where you live, this one time buy
>>> > > > should last you 20 years or so.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > G.
>>> > >
>>> > > For GOD'S sake! I HAD one! I bought it on Cape Cod. It fit
>>> > > right into our window. It wouldn't fit any of our windows here.
>>> > > I gave it to my neighbor because she said it would fit in one of
>>> > > her windows. I think she was lying. Didn't look to me like it
>>> > > would fit I think she sold it. She moved away not long after.
>>> >
>>> > Lady, you can have a window unit installed with proper bracing
>>> > inexpensively pretty much anywhere.
>>> >
>>> Of course I could. But with this kind of huge sliding windows, it
>>> would require removing the side that slides and fitting it with a
>>> piece of plywood. I do not wish to look at a big piece of plywood
>>> nor do I want one in there. All it takes is for someone to push it
>>> in and come on in! Then come fall, we would have to take it all out
>>> or wind up freezing all winter because we have a huge hole covered by
>>> plywood and not double paned glass!
>>>
>>> > When my father was transferred to Bangkok he had window units
>>> > installed in the bedrooms of the house he rented for us. It was
>>> > hotter than Hades most of the year there. If they could do it in
>>> > Bangkok in 1969 you can bet your sweet bippy someone can install a
>>> > window AC unit in your house in Bothell, WA in 2014.
>>>
>>> I am not stupid. I know how to put in AC. I have said this many
>>> times before. I am not taking my windows out. I am not taking the
>>> hardware cloth off. I am not shoving plywood into my windows,
>>> venting anything through them or cutting a hole in the wall. Just
>>> freaking give it up!
>>>
>>> It may well have been hot enough in Bangkok to need AC but for most
>>> years, 363 days of of them there is no need at all for AC and on
>>> those other two it would be questionable.
>>>
>>> We do get random years, it would seem about every 5 of them where we
>>> do get 2-3 weeks where it is warmer than usual This seems to be one
>>> of them despite what the various almanacs said.
>>>
>>> Me getting AC would be just about as smart and feasible as me getting
>>> a snow plow because we get snow just about as often as we get hot
>>> weather!
>>
>>Bullshit call Julie. I have those windows and 2 patio doors plus a
>>french double door set.
>>
>>The patio and side by side sliding windows work fine.
>>
>>What made you think that a *portable* was a permanent install item?
>>It's used at need and stored when not in use.
>
> It's just as easy to install a window air conditioner in a
> sliding/casement window as a double hung... they're actually the same
> window only the slider is essentially a double hung laid on its
> side... I've done both. Sometimes the sill is not wide enough to
> support the a/c unit but there are simple to install bracket kits. Two
> summers ago I installed just such a unit for one of my elderly
> neighbors, took like thirty minutes and the only tool needed was a
> screwdriver.
> http://www.amazon.com/Safe-AC-160-Un...er+bracket+kit
> There are a/c units configured for slider/casement windows.
> http://www.amazon.com/Frigidaire-Cas...dp_ob_image_hi
> Julie is just too cheap to treat herself to A/C.

I do not want AC, Sheldon. Do not want!