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DaveC426913
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- I have a portable unit that vents out the window of my large walk-in closet. I want to know where I should place the unit for best efficiency.
I have an attic bedroom with no windows. The only window is in the closet half of the attic.
I have a portable A/C in the bedroom that vents out the closet window.
The closet is quite warm - partly because it's poorly insulated (no soffit-venting), and partly because the A/C unit's vent hose (which is 10 feet long) gives off a lot of heat into the closet. The sun beats down on the roof just inches overhead.
The A/C labours to keep the bedroom cool, even at night.
Currently, I have no barrier between the warm closet and the cool bedroom, so the air can easily mix.
I plan to install a curtain in the doorway to discourage airflow.
Where do I want that curtain? (Actually, where do I want to place the A/C relative to the curtain)? Do I want the A/C to draw in warm closet air? Or do I want it to draw in cool bedroom air?
(The arrows are airflow, not pointers.)
I have a portable A/C in the bedroom that vents out the closet window.
The closet is quite warm - partly because it's poorly insulated (no soffit-venting), and partly because the A/C unit's vent hose (which is 10 feet long) gives off a lot of heat into the closet. The sun beats down on the roof just inches overhead.
The A/C labours to keep the bedroom cool, even at night.
Currently, I have no barrier between the warm closet and the cool bedroom, so the air can easily mix.
I plan to install a curtain in the doorway to discourage airflow.
Where do I want that curtain? (Actually, where do I want to place the A/C relative to the curtain)? Do I want the A/C to draw in warm closet air? Or do I want it to draw in cool bedroom air?
(The arrows are airflow, not pointers.)