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Ordered a portable air conditioner from Home Depot today. My office is in a room that is absolutely baking because the wide area of windows that face the sun at the front of the house. It's totally disconnected (figuratively) from the back half of the house where the HVAC thermostat is. Thermal curtains and potted bushes on the porch in front of the windows only help a bit. It's a wave of heat hitting me as I'm at my desk.

Anyway, I did ship-to-store which is estimated 10 days from now. Even media mail, which I use to flip records on eBay, usually arrives across the country in like 5 days.

Their estimate is probably accurate because I already waited this long for my pressure washer to arrive. How?

Ordered a portable air conditioner from Home Depot today. My office is in a room that is absolutely baking because the wide area of windows that face the sun at the front of the house. It's totally disconnected (figuratively) from the back half of the house where the HVAC thermostat is. Thermal curtains and potted bushes on the porch in front of the windows only help a bit. It's a wave of heat hitting me as I'm at my desk. Anyway, I did ship-to-store which is estimated 10 days from now. Even media mail, which I use to flip records on eBay, usually arrives across the country in like 5 days. Their estimate is probably accurate because I already waited this long for my pressure washer to arrive. How?

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Get you a piece of foam, perhaps with one side shiny like aluminum foil. Fashion it to the exact size of your window. Place it in your window shiny side out, maybe Scotch tape to keep it in place. The reflecting light may cause traffic accidents and piss off your neighbor but it will make your house significantly cooler.

Lived with a bunch or red necks in AZ and that's how they handled the heat. Wasn't pretty and pretty dark inside, but maybe you could cut out a little window in the foam for light that can be placed back.