Portable Air Conditioner Unit Venting FAQ

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puna raea HI

I have a dimplex portable air conditioner, my problem is the window kit does not fit a awning type of window (which you actually have to push the window out to open) do you have any solution for this.		 2/5/2011
Barbara When the exhaust vents through a window or sliding glass door, can the window or sliding glass door lock (so no one can come in)? 8/7/2010
Garth This article needs a serious rewrite. Many of the sentences are nonsensical. Examples:
"If the hot air is not vented out to another room, then the air conditioner will not work efficiently." Can't I vent it to the outdoors?
"Some portable air conditioners offer one air exhaust hose while some offer two..." is false. I have never seen a portable air conditioner that had two exhaust hoses, but many have one exhaust and one intake hose.
Please try to remember that the people reading this are looking for info because they don't already know this stuff. Misleading statements like those above just serve to confuse them even more.		 7/3/2010
Shahid Hi Ranjan, Would this work for windows with grills ? This is the case in India 6/22/2010
Lena I think the word portable is false advertising for a unit that needs to be installed. As far as I understand the word portable, it refers to something movable, without any extra installment. If an air conditioner unit is portable, it wouldn't needed any installment. It would be full movable like a table, chair, dehumidifier or any furniture piece. The word is misleading and the proper word for it should be semi-portable. So far, every house I had, was unsuitable for such unit because I either had to break a hole in the wall or install new windows. It's useless in a hallway or to push from one room to another. I wonder who gave the OK to use the word portable for a unit that still needs to be installed. Perhaps it wasn't invented for the English language? 6/5/2009
Maria R I need to see what a vent for a portable air conditioner that will have to go out through a sliding door, looks like. 5/21/2008
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