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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Do-it-Yourself AC Installation

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This was something totally new to me. Growing up in Manila where labor is cheap, I've experienced that if you wanted to put an airconditioner in a room, you hire someone to cut a precise hole in the wall and then they would fasten some brackets and install the unit for you.

Over here you have to install it yourself, and your hole is the *window.*

{To my Filipino readers} I know, isn't that *weird?* The questions in your head are probably the same first ones *I* had:

To answer the first question: the unit itself has a wide lip running along the top.

This lip helps secure the unit against the window pane. Also, I'm not too worried because the window we're installing it to leads to our balcony, and it's less than 2 feet off the floor. Just in case it *does* drop (it doesn't seem likely though--it's in there tight), it's only going to drop a couple of feet. I can set a small table under the AC's backside to catch it in case it *does* slip and fall :-).

To answer the second question about the extra space in the window, the AC comes with "flex window mounts," which are essentially adjustable folding shutters that you fasten on both sides of the unit. This takes care of the extra space on either side of the AC if it's not as wide as the window.


Now that it's up and running, I think it's pretty cool (pun intended ;-)) that there are AC models that you can install yourself, through any window in the house :-). We'll be able to take this unit with us when we move to Nashville :-).

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