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Mine came in today at Home Depot. Installation was easy enough. The room that’s my office in a new house has two windows facing the sun for most of the day. Absolutely unbearable for the past couple of months with even higher temperatures to come. It’s like a wave of heat hitting me in the face.

My main job is an audio engineer. That sounds fancy, but basically I clean up audio for podcasters. I edit videos for YouTubers as well. Now you know more about me. A niche I carved out almost 20 years ago. Anyway..,,,,

I couldn’t sit at my desk anymore in this house. Holy shit. I’ve lived in a camper in the Deep South before. Never felt heat inside like this (inside).

This fucking unit is amazing. Total comfort. It’s more quiet than my $120 tower fan. The office was an ice box today.

What I can say is the heat that exits the tubing to outside is hot as shit. I bought two plants to go on the porch outside the window to block the nigger vibe. That doesn’t really matter. The efficiency rating says I can run this half the day all year and come out to about $8/month on my ever increasing utility cost.

It’s awesome.

Mine came in today at Home Depot. Installation was easy enough. The room that’s my office in a new house has two windows facing the sun for most of the day. Absolutely unbearable for the past couple of months with even higher temperatures to come. It’s like a wave of heat hitting me in the face. My main job is an audio engineer. That sounds fancy, but basically I clean up audio for podcasters. I edit videos for YouTubers as well. Now you know more about me. A niche I carved out almost 20 years ago. Anyway..,,,, I couldn’t sit at my desk anymore in this house. Holy shit. I’ve lived in a camper in the Deep South before. Never felt heat inside like this (inside). This fucking unit is amazing. Total comfort. It’s more quiet than my $120 tower fan. The office was an ice box today. What I can say is the heat that exits the tubing to outside is hot as shit. I bought two plants to go on the porch outside the window to block the nigger vibe. That doesn’t really matter. The efficiency rating says I can run this half the day all year and come out to about $8/month on my ever increasing utility cost. It’s awesome.

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I'll start off by stating some of the hate points for a portable A/C unit, then add one great point about it that I could benefit from now.

The hate points. It is loud, unsightly, looks like a poor persons home, takes up space on the floor, has cords running to power it, leaves a vulnerable point in the window for easier access for bugs and thieves.

Up until this year, I found no good reason why anyone would want portable unit over central air. Set the temperature and it comes on as needed and cools the entire house to that temperature when needed.

That is all great, until your wife gets hot flashes because she is going through menopause. She has the temperature set to 58 fucking degrees in my house. The rest of us are freezing, and we just bundle up in a bunch of layers while it is scorching outside. If I had a window unit, I could at least contain the cold to one room and the rest of us could live like civilized people at 70 degrees. I need to go outside every hour or so just to warm up. For my daily showers, I will easily just stand in the hottest water that I can tolerate for half an hour and let the heat warm me to the bone marrow.

Young Men, take heed, this will one day be you.

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Aint no heat like menopause heat. Think instant 106 degree fever. I remember one night in an O.R I was talking to a nurse and she suddenly flushed beet red and pouring sweat. Total hot flash.

BTW, some women have hot flashes forever.

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If my wife ends up like that, I'm going to rip out my furnace and put her in its place. The blower can pull hot air off of her and she can heat my home in the winter.

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Lol, built in humidifier too.

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I have been hot all my life. Keep in mind my dad and I first started out with houses next to each other for me to watch over him. But it was too much land he was too motivated to meticulously maintain. He’s almost 70. He falls a lot.

Living in the same house, he is always cold. A house with the thermostat at 84 is comfortable for him. I can’t live like that. And the room where my office is is beaten down by heat.

This unit is nearly whisper quiet. Maybe the technology is just a little better now. I’m on day 3 with it and love it. I’ve reinforced insulation all around it and have added multiple window locks. I think it’s great.

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That is a very good use for it. It's not until you go through something like that where the ability to cool just one room is invaluable. If I ever build another house, or flip one or whatever, and I'm going to live there, I think I will give each room the ability to set its own temperature.

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It truly is invaluable. I didn’t think the heat would be so bad because I’m retarded. Summer heat heat can still hit the 90’s. It’s close to that now. And the windows face the sun most of the day. Poor calculating.