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I don’t have a lot of thoughts today. We still haven’t fixed the central air, no idea how I’m going to pay for it. The small portable units we’ve been using are holding up okay, though I worry what the power bill will be like.
Anyway I have a couple of commissions finished that I need to post.
I don’t recommend the floor models. The in-the-window ones are half the price, cool a LOT better, cost less to run, and you don’t have to keep emptying out the dehumidifier bucket.
I am aware they are more efficient, but my windows are not shaped in such a way you can install them. Legally I cannot remodel my home and replacing the central air would be cheaper if I could.
Please don’t assume I am stupid.
Never made such assumption at all, just trying to offer a little information I wasn’t sure you had any experience with since they hype the floor models so hard and bill the windiw units as ‘old fashioned’. Said info was also for the benefit of anyone else that might read it, experience is worthless if you don’t pass it on. Please don’t assume I deliberately insult people.
You were wondering about the electricity cost so I tried to help, sorry, lesson learned.
I don’t have a floor unit but I can’t see one being that much more expensive to run than a window model although with the dehumidifier they all seem to have, it might be but likely not by that much. I’d have to call my son to be sure, he has one because he lives in a basement apartment and the windows are too small to hold a window model. I do know, as I mentioned, that our power bill goes down in the summer even with the A/C running and I’d wager that a lot of that comes from not running a big fan in the furnace to force air through all that ductwork like a central A/C would have to do, said fan cost me $800 to replace a couple of years ago 🙁
We have three in-window units, one for upstairs, one for downstairs and one in my son’s room. The cost to run them is negligible, the fan on the furnace uses a LOT more power in the winter and even with all three A/C’s running 24/7 the bill is lower in the summer.