I have an air conditioner unit that I just bought, suitable for sitting on a window sill. I don’t want to put it on the window sill. I can’t run it completely in the room because the cool out the front of the unit and the heat out the back will cancel each other out. Can I take one of these units, run it in my garage, and pipe the cool air into another room by duct taping a dryer hose (or equivalent) to the front air outlet? It sounds wacky, but I think it might work. Anyone have any comments on this? I just need to get one room of my house cooled down 1 month each year without ugly-fying my house.
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i guess you could, but you'll have to use good sized air ducts for both the supply and cold air into the house, no point in cooloing the hot air in the garage and pumping it in to the house, not to mention gas fumes etc from the garage.
why not mount it through the wall in the room instead of the window? just build an opening the right size with a shelf for the ac unit, if exterior esthetics are important build a well ventilated cover
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In order to do effective cooling you must cool and dehumidify the air in the space you are trying to keep comfortable by passing it over the evaporator coil in the window unit. Doing it the way you are proposing will probably not work very well unless you also pull return air from the same space back to the unit in the garage. With all of this extra ductwork added on, the window unit will have to work extra hard and will not be very effective. I would recommend making the house look ugly for a month.