portable air conditioners

[Jun aka Pekto]

We have an old LG portable air conditioner from 2012 that still works. It was designed to cool a 10ft x 10ft room. It employs a flexible tube that blows the exhaust air out through a window. It wasn't as humid as the PH where we were. So, emptying the water wasn't frequent, usually once a day.

I used it because my den was the farthest room away from the centralized heating and cooling.

The LG worked pretty good even though my den was 14ft x 14ft. But, it was noisy. So, whenever I was watching TV, the volume was pretty loud.

To empty the water, I had to unplug and set the unit on a stair step and then unscrew the drain cap at the bottom. The water then drained out into a small bucket.

We also have a small window-type rectangular air conditioner that sat on a window. It was designed for a 13ft x 13ft room. We had to buy one because after we sold our house in NY, we moved to an apartment for a year and it didn't have an air conditioner. It too worked okay. The water drained outside via a rubber tube. The only bad part was having to take out the screen from the window.

Plus, we can't have either air conditioner in place if we're leaving the house because the windows are open.

From my experience with portable air conditioners, they work so long as you use them in the room size they were designed for. If it's designed for a tiny bedroom, don't use it to cool down a living room.