If you guys love me at all, you'll chip in and buy me this. Otherwise none of you will ever be able to visit because I'll be spending the rest of the summer in my knickers and nothing else. I love my new apartment, I do, but the air conditioning unit is CRAP. It's wee tiny and it's supposed to cool a two story questionably-insulated multi-window townhouse? No way.
I am willing to adjust to a warmer home, but this is ridiculous. I can't seem to get the temperature anywhere below 76-78 degrees. That might not seem warm to some of you, but I am a freakin' polar bear, okay? I like my house cool.
Maybe I should just replace my couch with a plastic tub containing a giant block of ice. Ohhhh I'm imagining it now. A big block of iiiiiiice...
Great idea! My wife and I should fill the plastic tub we're already using as a couch with ice! ;)
Posted by: Jess | July 18, 2006 at 09:35 AM
So I've been doing my research on these lately, as the East Bay has been unusually and insufferably hot lately and our house has no A/C. (It was 102 yesterday! 102 with no AC!)
That unit looks a little large (BTU-wise) for either the upstairs or downstairs, and it cannot cool both at the same time! Its important to get an appropriate sized unit for your space. A bigger unit is not always better and will not always cool a smaller room adequately. Its important to know the size of your space, and buy appropriately. (It also saves energy, but talking to a Texan about saving energy is like asking a fish to not use so much water)
Posted by: tim | July 18, 2006 at 10:13 AM
Tim, you're such a know-it-all. Just buy me the damn a/c unit and shyaddup.
Seriously, though, you're right about the larger unit and all of that. My problem is that my downstairs doesn't have a window that can be opened, only a sliding glass door. SO it looks like if I get a window unit it will go in the window above the stairs. That way it can cool up and down. It doesn't need to bring the temp down from 100 or anything, I mean, I do have a unit that's already running. It would just be used for those extra-awful nights when I come home and open the door to the pizza oven that I call home.
Posted by: Fuzzball | July 18, 2006 at 10:25 AM
The only way I can sympathize with you on this is recalling when the times when the air conditioning went out. I'm only warm if there's no air in the summer, but I tend to be cool/cold or at least very sensitive to cold air blowing on me most of the time, so we keep the house 77-80. I like hot and humid. :-) My husband calls me his hot house flower. ;-)
Maybe you should get some tropical plants. That way at least something in the house will be at the right temperature. ;-)
Posted by: Gymshoes | July 18, 2006 at 02:24 PM
We need a new air conditioner, too, but how come they're so much more expensive here? That one is big enough to cool an entire apartment (at least a Japanese-sized apartment) but something for the same price here would cool one smallish room. (We only cool one room anyway, though - it's too expensive to cool the whole place.)
Posted by: BadAunt | July 22, 2006 at 09:35 PM