Installing a air vent for my garage AC! Hope you enjoy! Updates and subscriber give away! : • Garage Portable AC… is... www.walmart.com/ip/NewAir-Port...
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True, but portable A/C are horrible in what they supposed to do; cool. On top of that, they are not nearly as energy efficient. I had to install one of these portables in my garage the same as he did in this video. I've yet to feel the thing cool. I'm returning it in hopes to at lease find one that works better.
Those units are really great . I'm glad you weren't seriously hurt . Brick splinters like mad . That happened to my brother when he decided it was a good idea to take a chisel to our homes chimney . After a trip to the ER dad locked up all the tools . lol
I think I’ll be getting a evaporator cooler as well just to help out the AC! It works good but it mainly just makes it 10-15 degrees cooler and dry haha
You did a great neat job! Some advice if you can move the unit slightly to the right so the hose doesn’t have to come like that slanted because that hot pipe is running in the back where the evaporator coil is and it’s drawing in some of its own hot discharge air. 👍🏻
They also sell a roll of foil covered bubble wrap insulation you can wrap around the hot exhaust hose so the heat doesn't radiate back into the room you are trying to cool.
Should drill a second hole and go with a two-hose model, it will work much better. For all the air being blown outside, the same amount of warm outside air is being sucked into the garage, probably from the gaps around the garage door. Did this with a trailer, but ended up replacing the single hose unit with a dual hose. The dual hose made a huge difference and cooled twice as fast because it no longer had to deal with all the hot air coming in from outside due to the negative pressure.
The 15,000 BTU units on Amazon work great. Two hoses, and wrapping the exhaust hose in foil covered bubble wrap insulation definitely cools down a room faster than a single hose unit.
I was using my dryer vent but it was too small. My next through was putting in a spacer under the door, until I realized that it was open on top. I ended up cutting a hole in the access panel in the ceiling and venting the hot air into the attic. There are eve vents that allow some air to circulate. the unit sits on a shelf and is out of the way...it has a remote.
Awesome vid,thank you! I want to put one of these in my mothers 3 seasons room but it is surrounded with one piece glass windows. I need a way to run the vent to the outside.
i installed a 14k window AC through the wall of my garage, Soooooo much more Efficient Yes, sticks out the side of the house but the lot location and land scaping make it invisible. 2.5 car garage super cool. Portables are much less efficient then window units
@@frankorosz901 I believe this is a garage space and it must already be built in accordance with fire and fumes regulations, cars are known to start on fire .
Dude should have got a Mini Split. I got one mounted, installed for $600 bucks out the door. It will freeze you out of the shop. Way cheaper and easier and no big holes in your wall.
I live in the desert southwest and was wondering if you have the same issue I do? If my unit runs for a certain amount of time without noticing a drop in temp it shuts down. How is you unit working in the heat? In the Carolinas you have got to be running a tube from the condensation collection pan. No way that thing isn't spewing water at a rate of a couple gallons a day.
I haven’t had it shut off at all, keeps the temp down pretty well! It doesn’t spew to much water because we don’t open the garage door during the summer. So it always stays pretty dry in there. I only run the dehumidifier option 90% of the time. Only run the AC the night before and during the day when I’m working in the shop
Good Job. I had a friend who was a life long brick mason who used a grinder to make me a perfect round hole in the brick for our Dryer vent. I wish I would have videoed that.
Thank you @BigCountryCustomz I’m planning on doing exactly the same install. I intend on using 4inch vent but noticed your airflow seemed a little laud. I wonder if the vent noise would be reduced if I used a 5 inch/6 inch which i really prefer to keep as 4inch.
I worked great! I will do so! Keeps it 10-15* cooler in the garage. Super tolerable for working in my shop. Yesterday, 93 outside, 78 in garage. I only ran the dehumidifier yesterday to! Which basically runs the AC on low.
Home Depot or Lowe’s both sell something called a “reducer”. The diameter of the AC exhaust hose is probably 5”, and the vent is 4”. I just installed one today, but I went from 5” ac hose to 6” flexible aluminum duct hose connected to a 6” vent. www.homedepot.com/b/Heating-Venting-Cooling-HVAC-Supplies-Ducting-Venting-Transitions-Connectors-Reducers/N-5yc1vZc5hw
Air conditioning is a freaking necessity. I enjoyed watching this. Not sure why your portable doesn't have a dual hose. Of course, you may have modified it since this video was done. But, if the single hose works, that's fine.
I am probably to late to inform you, but because these things exhaust so much air the air in the room needs to be replaced somehow. This means bad air being sucked in anywhere it can be along with moisture into your walls. The plus side is that these run in hot rooms when its cold outside, most window units will shut off to protect the compressor is its 65F or lower outside.
Yeah I’m sure it gets most of it from around the garage door. People keep telling me these things don’t work but it was 95 outside today when I got home. Had the unit running all day because I had some shop work to do tonight and it kept my UN insulated garage at 77.. I am so impressed with it even though it may not be “efficient” according to half the commenters lol
@@BigCountrysWay Yea, they do work and I still use mine. I have a garage turned into office with a lot of electronics and computers running in it and it keeps it cool. The office can get 80+ even if it's 40F outside, a window unit would not run but this thing still does and keeps it under 70 easy. I did make an over the door vent into the main house so it could suck air in from the inside, and not thru the walls as much. If I ever replace it thou I will be going to a dual hose model.
All you need is a dryer vent from you local hardware or big box store and the reducer from I believe 6” to 4” pipe(double check with your unit). Masonry bit and a chisel.(I bought a chisel that was made for a hand held jack hammer. Besides that, the only things I used was a 4” hole saw and flex seal
Sorry i'm late to the party and I'm sure you have it all worked out by now, but I have to this: The watr will not run down into the garage as you stated. It will run down the hose to your a/c unit. Edit: Also, I didn't see where you insulated the vent on the outside between the vent and brick wall? Edit Edit: How come you measure across the entire inside surface, when the actual size of the opening isn't anywhere near 15"? You should have just measured the working portion of the exhaust hole.
Let me tell ya, it’s totally worth it. 90 degree day, it could make it about 77 in of afternoon if started in the early morning. But the most important thing is that it keeps the air dry…. Makes it way better to work in
Did you notice anything unusual with the 6 to 4 inch adapter, instead of just venting to a 6 inch hole? Some have said the sudden draw down of hot air going out could cause a problem with the unit. I have an rv that has a 4 inch vent but my portable AC has a 6 inch hose. I haven't installed yet but I hope it works ok. Let me know. Thanks!
@@BigCountrysWay I am sure it's working for you with your window-less situation. After looking more at the unit online, I see its rated at 14000 BTUs (the energy it uses) but rated at "9500 btu EOC" which the rate it performs to in relation to a window unit. It is rated for 500 sq ft., which still more than enough for that garage. I own two portable units which are lower BTUs so with the new EOC rating I'm sure they are even lower lol. They have helped me in a pinch but definitely not efficient. Also it does come down to location and air quality along how often you use it. I'm in Central Florida where Hot and Humidity are the norm. How has the electric bill been? Also, does it not have a self evaporate for the water?
Y not run the drain line out the wall too. It's extra humid where you are, it has to fill up even more than usual. Y would anyone disconnect and roll it outside to drain it, if a simple drain hose can be installed like I did with mine.
You’re 100% right, I would do that! For some reason though my doesn’t just pour water. I actually just leave the drain open all the time lol drips every now and then
Works great! It’s 90* outside right now. I worked in the shop for 3 hours and just came inside. Barely broke a sweat. Check out my update video! I made some changes!
That hole is way to high up on the wall it will stand out on the wall out front like a sore thumb . If youd put it lower to the floor it blend in better people would see it say oh a dryer vent. Those ac are no good you have to empty the condensation pan all the time they fill up guick
i would never knock anyone that attempts a job on his own or makes a video of it, but past experience and years of practice tells me to measure first and start outside.
You obviously do not realize that the cool air that is produced by that air conditioner is being sucked back into the unit and then out the nice hole you just put in your brick. Maybe you can use that hole for a mini-split line set in the not-so-distant future. Here watch this video - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_-mBeYC2KGc.html
How many times do I have to tell people, that’s okay…. It still cools my shop and keeps it dry. It has been VERY bearable in there this summer. It hasn’t been above 80 degrees since I put this in. There is no insulation around any part of my garage and it still manages to keep it 80 on 100+ degree South Carolina days. I’m super happy with how it is running and I’m not gonna change it.
Those a/c units were installed at work in Data Closets, they didn't work well. The computers were always overheating. Your trying to cool a Garage. Do a follow up on this.🐗
@@BigCountrysWay efficiency goes down because you are using cold air to cool condenser. You are then suck in outside air to replace that same air. What temperature is current outside air? You need a second hose to get air from outside to cool condenser to maximize efficiency. That way you only cool the air in garage and not garage air and air you waste cooling condenser. Your air conditioner has proper intake made for it. You see it on the back. Same size next as heat exhaustion. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_-mBeYC2KGc.html
@@musclesmouse I see the point but it still does everything I need and everything other people would need. Keeps the air dry and keeps my garage about 15 degrees cooler than it is outside if I start the unit in the morning. The air it’s “pulling in” from the vacuum comes from my house. 9 times out of 10 my house door is open with only my screen door closed. It’s definitely not air tight.
Don't use a single hose air conditioner, this will explain ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c7p7CPABZ3I.html at the 5:55 mark of the video.
@@andrewtruett8590 that’s okay though, I haven’t seen any real impact to my power bill and it runs 24/7. AC when I need it and dehumidifier that rest of the time
Thats not gonna work very well the exhaust hose is too small needs to be 6inch!!!!!! Ive already done this once!! Thats why it comes with a 6in exhaust hose!!!!!
no insulation in the walls. thats a huge problem.. might as well rip all that dry wall out and do it right!!! get some insulation in there and re drywall everything. Jesus!!!!
