How To Install Portable Air Conditioner In Awning Window
- atb112 [OP]
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- Jan 18, 2007
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- Vancouver
Portable Air Conditioner with canopy window (moving picture)
Looking to pickup a portable air conditioner for the summertime, specifically the Sharp 9K BTU, and was wondering how people take gone most installing portable a/c's in an awning window. This is a pic of the windows in my place:
[IMG]http://imgur.com/v8TC3.jpg[/IMG]
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- tnaran
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- Jun 27, 2022
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- Vancouver, BC
First off: my portable air conditioner came with a window slider and vent connector. The vent connector ("flange") was separate from the window slider, so I could in theory screw the vent connector to anything I wanted.
I went to Home Depot and got a big plastiboard (the corrugated plastic boards you utilise for signs). I cut information technology to the size of my awning window.
I so cut a hole in the plastiboard virtually the "lesser" (the bottom as it will be when installed) and screwed the vent connector to the plastiboard.
I then duct taped the plastiboard to my awning window casement, attached the hose to the vent flange, and voila!
Problems to be solved: Your A/C volition generate a lot of hot air which will cause the plastiboard the sag, the duct tape to loosen and break the seal which means hot air leaking in.
Ane piece of work effectually I found was to use long, thin wooden stiffeners on the sides. It's not pretty, merely it works.
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- Si98
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v to 6 mm plexiglass cut to spec from a specialty shop is the mode to become. Shouldn't cost more than than $30 according to the size of your window. If you don't have a jigsaw you lot may likewise get them to cut out the notch for the exhaust too. You would too demand weather stripping to line all iv edges of your plexiglass. Try to find atmospheric condition stripping thick plenty to bring the plexiglass closer to where the narrow notch is on the frame of the window. To concur the drinking glass in place all you need to do is slip some cardboard or folded concern cards in the notch on all four sides.
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- scouzer
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- Mar 13, 2003
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Y'all could also just shove the hose out the window. Ugly equally hell and inefficient... but that'southward what I practice.
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- mtl4
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- December v, 2007
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Si98 wrote: ↑v to 6 mm plexiglass cut to spec from a specialty shop is the way to go. Shouldn't cost more than than $30 according to the size of your window. If you don't accept a jigsaw you may too get them to cut out the notch for the exhaust also. You would besides need weather stripping to line all iv edges of your plexiglass. Endeavor to notice conditions stripping thick enough to bring the plexiglass closer to where the narrow notch is on the frame of the window. To hold the glass in place all you need to do is skid some paper-thin or folded business cards in the notch on all 4 sides.
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Use plexiglass cut to simply larger than the size of the window.
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- jm1
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- Jan v, 2003
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I did something similar to what the other posters have suggested, simply plastiboard is too flimsy and warps over time, and plexiglass/Lexan is too expensive (for the size I needed) and I didn't need information technology to be clear (the sun would just warm up the room, and the bespeak is to cool it downward). Instead, I used a sparse sheet of wood I found at Domicile Depot. It's basically pegboard, but without the holes for the pegs. One side is white melanine, so h2o-resistant and cosmetically improve-looking than apparently wood when facing outside. It'due south very inexpensive but sturdy and can hold screws if you work out a style to screw in the hoses.
In your instance, I would suggest this non-peg pegboard for the bottom if you want a cheaper solution (I think a sail big enough for you is between $5-$x), and plastiboard for the sides (it's like shooting fish in a barrel to cut to fit and can curve if you become the angle a bit off).
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