How To Properly Put Ac In Window

Read the instructions that came with your portable air conditioner carefully.

How to properly put ac in window.

Choose a location for your portable air conditioner. Open the window to provide just enough room for placement of the unit and collapse the accordion panels inward to ensure that they do not interfere with initial positioning. Peel the paper backing off the cut strip of weatherstripping and position the seal sticky. Enlist a helper to set the a c in position.

Measure the width of the windowsill and use a pencil to mark. Keep it balanced as you slide the flange on the bottom of the case against the outside edge of the windowsill. Screw the vertical mounting flange of each extension to the window jambs. Venting a portable air conditioner through a window 1.

Then put on some gloves and safety glasses to protect yourself from the freon and turn off your ac. Open it wide enough to accommodate the height of the air conditioner. After it is off hook up the refrigerant gauges to the valve connections. With the bottom window sash up as far as it ll go center and insert the a c in the window.

Turn the ac back on and wait 15 minutes so you can get an accurate reading on the gauge. Save these instructions and any. Next pick up the unit and rest it on the bottom of the window frame. Now your first step is an easy one.

Open the lower window sash and attach the bracket using the provided hardware if necessary. You re now ready to place the unit into the window opening. Carefully place the unit in the opening and lower the top sash to hold the unit in place. Pull out each extension to close off the space to the left and right of the air conditioner.

Cut a piece of adhesive backed foam weatherstipping to this length. Place the air conditioner near both a window and an electrical. Here i show how a window ac should be installed. Measure the length of the first gap.

Air conditioners are deceptively heavy making installing a window ac unit a two person job. Before installing a window ac open the window as far as it goes remove the screen and clean the windowsill glass and window frame.