It's too hot :(

perfect minus the melting in my chair. I am much happier when the temperature is ~20c and below. the colder it gets, easy to throw on a jacket, but as it gets hotter, there's only so much you can do before needing to fork out a lot of money, or make other tradeoffs with noise / convenience to manage it.
 
Of all the days, I unusually got a puncture half way home from work on the bike, very unusually the repair failed and I decided I couldn't be bothered to melt further in the heat trying another repair... So a melting ~2 mile uphill walk of shame. :(
 
Anyone else venting a portable AC out a sealed window, I just want to check if you're adhering to the exact exhaust pipe angle they recommend?

Mine says the duct hose shouldn't exceed 30 degrees of bend which is ridiculous as a short unit on wheels needs about 45 degrees on the duct hose to get to even the lowest UK windows.

It's cooling just fine with a sealed window kit, hot air blasting out the sealed window as I can test it from an adjoining window, it's nicely sealed with ice cool air blasting out the louvres. It's only that I read the manual from cover to cover that I even noticed the 30 degree stipulation which seems ridiculously strict.

I can't see an issue using at 45 degree or higher this way as hot air rises through a short and very wide ducting, I'm not seeing any issues this way with hot air flow escape or overstraining the system.

Any thoughts from portable users appreciated.
 
PC777 said:
Anyone else venting a portable AC out a sealed window, I just want to check if you're adhering to the exact exhaust pipe angle they recommend?

Mine says the duct hose shouldn't exceed 30 degrees of bend which is ridiculous as a short unit on wheels needs about 45 degrees on the duct hose to get to even the lowest UK windows.

It's cooling just fine with a sealed window kit, hot air blasting out the sealed window as I can test it from an adjoining window, it's nicely sealed with ice cool air blasting out the louvres. It's only that I read the manual from cover to cover that I even noticed the 30 degree stipulation which seems ridiculously strict.

I can't see an issue using at 45 degree or higher this way as hot air rises through a short and very wide ducting, I'm not seeing any issues this way with hot air flow escape or overstraining the system.

Any thoughts from portable users appreciated.
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Although not optimal, It will be absolutely fine.
 
Thanks, that's what I thought and I'm going to stick with the way I have it, when I emailed where I purchased it about it being noisy they asked for a photo of my install and said didn't it didn't adhere to the recommended 30 degrees (I now know they're just noisy units, most portable AC is between 50 and 60 DB which is noisy.)

They suggested removing its wheels and placing it on something a few feet in the air to get it at 30 degree angle, ridiculous suggestion from a safety point of view, I think I'll take my chances with a slightly higher angle and keeping all its functions.

To meet the 30 degrees stipulation it'd have to be raised 2 or 3 off the ground for almost every window in the UK, so it's pretty ridiculous they've stated that low an angle.
 
My room basically becomes a sauna by lunch time, I refuse to open windows since I can't stand having bugs/spiders in my room XD
 
Nice cold can of coke from the fridge. I am in no mood to sleep.

My windows stay open all the time unless I go out. I get the odd moth but quickly dealt with.
 
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Basically ideal.

Got up to 25c in some rooms over Sunday/Monday. But not too bad

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