Aha. An AC with an apartment built around it.
Here, it’s been over 90 for the past thousand days in a row, no AC, and it’s airy and comfortable with fans.
It snowed here today. I shit you negative. I had to run the heat in the Jeep when I took the dogs out.
They built their houses in ways that helped them stay (relatively) cool without it. Or just ignored it.
I wonder how many people that killed; heat stroke isn’t something that pride can negate, after all.
Our entire dorm was built without AC in the 1980s…in Oklahoma.
I just recently ditched an apartment without air conditioning for one that has it. I am so pleased. Saturday was the day that really drove the point home for me. I reveled in being able to walk around in the boiling heat knowing the pure joy that lay in store back at the ol’ homestead.
I had no AC until age 11 but that was in NJ . Since then I have AC here in NC .
Little Nemo, have you tried calling the maker of the a/c unit about buying a new hose that will fit the unit as it is supposed to? I’m on my 6th summer of an a/c unit like the one you describe–floor standing, vent out the window–and I haven’t had any hose problems.
Hell I had one of those units with corrugated tubes that lasted a good 15 years
I can handle 88 degrees in my room. But, I sleep in a cotton hammock, and after 16 years of living in the tropics, I have adjusted.
When it reaches 90F, I turn on the a/c and the low energy setting.
I hope you have a solution by now.
What is this 88F of which you speak?
Does it mean you get twice the summer that we do?
Wimps! I grew up in Philly awnd we certainly didn’t have air conditioning. Sometimes, the temperature would be in the high 90s, even 100 with overnight lows in the mid 80s for 2-3 weeks. We survived. Here in Montreal, we live without AC for 50 years, although it was rather more moderate than Philly. Last summer, we moved to a condo that has air, but I use it as little as possible. Might not use it at all if there was a way of getting a cross-breeze.
Don’t know. How many summers do you have?
It is summer for 11.5 months a year here.
We get a 44F summer for a few days each year - hence the reference
Never seen it below 60F here.
The two weeks of winter is horrible. We have not way to heat a room. And very few clothes for the cold.