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Need tall narrow window air conditioner
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My house has central air, but I want to make one room colder than the others. The problem is the house has tall narrow windows common in the Dallas area. I know I have seen tall narrow window air conditioners, but now I can’t find one. Does anyone know who makes one? Dave
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My house has central air, but I want to make one room colder than the others. The problem is the house has tall narrow windows common in the Dallas area. I know I have seen tall narrow window air conditioners, but now I can’t find one. Does anyone know who makes one? Dave
Sears sells a couple of models. They are more expensive, but they last forever, and run quitely.
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My house has central air, but I want to make one room colder than the others. The problem is the house has tall narrow windows common in the Dallas area. I know I have seen tall narrow window air conditioners, but now I can’t find one. Does anyone know who makes one?
By "tall, narrow", do you mean casement windows or ordinary sach windows that just have an unusual shape? We have casement windows in my new house but our bedroom has a wall-mounted air conditioner. —peter
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My house has central air, but I want to make one room colder than the others. The problem is the house has tall narrow windows common in the Dallas area. I know I have seen tall narrow window air conditioners, but now I can’t find one. Does anyone know who makes one? Dave
I have seen them at Sears but hold on to your checkbook. Ginther Sales Inc. 1301 E. Oklahoma Harlingen, TX 78550 1-800-mrcoolu (956)428-9380 fax (956)428-9390 http://mrcoolu.com
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What you need to look for is called "casement" air conditioners – as in usually used in casement windows. Expensive, too, for some reason I’ve never understood. -=epm<=- In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. – Albert Einstein
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What you need to look for is called "casement" air conditioners Expensive, too, for some reason I’ve never understood.
Very easily understood: A combination of "Supply and Demand" and "Specialty Item". Take a ride through your town and see how many Casement AC units you see as compared to Double-Hung or Through-Wall units. If it costs the same to manufacture a double hung and a casement unit, the manufacturer will be able to spread his cost over many more DH units than casement units, so he has to charge more for the casements. That’s your Supply and Demand part. Now add on that annoying "Specialty Item" surcharge. The mentality is that "If they want it (or *need* it), they will be willing to pay more for it." Therefore the profit margin will be much higher for a Specialty Item than an standard item. Where it gets really screwy are those cases where demand actually drives the price up. I was talking to a guy that owns a collision shop. He mentioned that some parts are really cheap (a roof panel, for example) and some are very expensive (a light lens) not due to the cost of manufacture, but due to the fact that nobody ever (well almost never) replaces a roof panel, but light lenses get broken in many many accidents. "People are gonna need ‘em (not *want* ‘em) so let’s hit ‘em hard."
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We bought one from Sears this year. Expensive, but worth it to battle the heat wave, we think. Probably costs more because of less demand for them than the conventional kind. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -What you need to look for is called "casement" air conditioners – as in usually used in casement windows. Expensive, too, for some reason I’ve never understood. -=epm<=- In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. - Albert Einstein
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Now add on that annoying "Specialty Item" surcharge. The mentality is that "If they want it (or *need* it), they will be willing to pay more for it." Therefore the profit margin will be much higher for a Specialty Item than an standard item.
I think this may be the reason in this case. The "guts" are the same. Just the case dimensions are different. And if you need one, you don’t have a choice. Still, these units are usually 3 or 4 times the price of a comparable standard window unit, at least here in the Northeast. That’s a lot of markup - but I -=epm<=- In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. – Albert Einstein
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