Comments on: Do you still use old fashioned window air conditioners?

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Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:53:25 +0000

[...] and I finally got around to putting in our new window air conditioner on Saturday. Ok, well Chris put it in all I did was read the directions after he installed it. [...]

By: Tricia

Tricia — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:47:27 +0000

Liz when we lived in an apartment for the first while we could put an air conditioner in without any rent increase so of course pretty much everyone did it. However in the last two years or so that we were in the apartment they decided to add a surcharge if you were using an air conditioner – I think it was something like $200 for the summer – way more than it would have cost for the electricity I’m sure so we lived without AC. Luckily our apartment, like our house faced North so closing the curtains during the day helped keep it cool.

It’s so hot and humid here and being sick with Crohns I’m not sure I could live without ac in the summer. I hate the window air conditioners but we need them.

By: Tricia

Tricia — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:41:28 +0000

Jolene I see that you are in Calgary? I’m in Toronto and our temp range is something like that too … well -35 with windchill anyway and yes 40 C with humidity. We had a really hot summer last year too and tons of snow this winter. We don’t normally get a lot of snow that stays but we were hit much harder than normal this winter. Not complaining – it was good for my plants to actually have some winter protection and my garden is perhaps the best it’s ever been thanks to our heavy snow winter.

Our Cars AC broke down about 4 years ago and it needs a major and very expensive repair so we’re living without it.

I just hate the window air conditioners. Our house faces North and when we put the air conditioners in it blocks out some of the light we get in the house.

Thanks for your visit!

By: Jolene

Jolene — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:01:36 +0000

LOL, they’re not “old fashioned” here! Where I live it’s rare to have a place with air conditioning. Pretty much only the high high end homes have it unless you get it put in yourself,and usually if you’re going to add a/c it’s a window unit. Honestly our homes need both a very good source of heat as well as a/c. Our temperatures go from as low as -35 to -40(celcius) in winter to as warm as 30 to 35(celcius) in summer…and everything in between LOL. Last summer we had a month of temps 30 or higher, it was not fun, we went for a ride in the car almost every night with the a/c blasting just to get some relief!

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:53:11 +0000

No air conditioners here – we can’t afford the hike in the electricity bill. But lots of people in these apartments do, and I’m not sure they have much of a choice. On the plus side, they’ve all got their windows closed, so we don’t have to worry about being too loud.