Getting brand new appliances has been an ongoing learning experience for a large part of my life.
Ever since I accidentally purchased a lemon refrigerator from a store with a 48 hour return policy, I have felt totally cursed with major purchases.
I was living with my mother while finishing college plus I had convinced her to let me find the new fridge after our ancient one was done following 23 years of pretty solid performance. My ego got the better part of me plus I jumped on a sale I noticed at a local sizable bog hardware store. Using name recognition as the main source of trust in this purchase, I pulled the trigger without doing the bare minimum of due diligence on my part. At the core of it, I honestly should have called before buying it online so I could ask for a good explanation on the store’s return policy regarding this recognizable brand’s appliances sold at that store. This memory has haunted me since, so much so that I have been stuck trying to figure out the right portable air conditioner equipment to buy for my small studio apartment. The various windows I have are too tiny for a traditional window air conditioner equipment, plus a ductless mini split is most certainly too far out of my budget range until I get a better job. This led me down the path of looking for portable air conditioner equipment. Since these are pretty much indoor package system AC equipment, they still have a warm condenser that needs to be cooled somehow. My only real choices are single hose machines that pull air conditioned air back into the machine to cool the condenser before being pushed out the exhaust hose through a window or a port in a wall. Two hose systems are actually more efficient. Instead of wasting air conditioned air to cool the condenser, it has a second hose to pull in outdoor air for this particular type of work. Although more high-priced, a multiple hose machine seems to be a better fit for long term use.