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So we got ourselves an 11000 btu floor air conditioner. Our goal is to make the house plesant to live in with our main focus on the master bedroom and the living room in a single leve house. Only problem is the two are on oppiste ends of the house. We closed off all the other doors to the other three bedrooms that arent used. We tried it in the living room and it got it down to about 83 but the oppusite end of the house is still muggy. Should we keep it in the living room (front of the house) or is there a better way to get air moving from one side to another.
Go buy another unit. Assuming that your house is bigger than 700 sq ft, the unit will struggle to cool a 700 sq ft house. That unit is less than a 1 ton A/C unit. In Texas heat, a builder can, with proper insulation and radiant barriers, get a ton of A/C to cool 700 sq ft. If you don't have any of those energy saving devices in place, you may only get 400 sq ft per 1 ton of A/C. You're asking far too much from FAR too little.
I'd suggest moving it towards the bedroom so you can at least get a good nights sleep.
If it has one tube that you place in the window return it and get a two tube model. Having one tube only allows the unit to exhaust the air you're trying to cool over the condensing coil and right out the window.
I agree you probably need another unit, but in the meantime try putting a box fan in the hallway near the living room to send some of that cool air down towards the bedroom.
I'd also try it putting it in the bedroom. I'd rather be able to sleep comfortably.
I agree the a/c is not big enough to cool your whole house. (I am guessing with 4 bedrooms it's pretty big.) We have two that size and one smaller one for our 4 BR 3 story house, one for each story. If I had to choose between living room and BR I would stick it in the bedroom for sure.
. Should we keep it in the living room (front of the house) or is there a better way to get air moving from one side to another.
You could try a fan to push the hot air from the bedroom, but your really expecting lot from one A/C unit. You expecting it to draw the heat out of air on the other side of the house. You be far better off getting another small unit for the bedroom a 8k or 10k unit should be fine.
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Originally Posted by topher5150
We tried it in the living room and it got it down to about 83 but the opposite end of the house is still muggy.
Only 83? A recent storm took out our electricity for days, so we were forced to use a 8,000 btu window A/C unit in our bedroom powered by a generator. We got the room down to 68 degrees, and it's a big bedroom with walk in closet and master bathroom. If you can't get the living room cooler than 83, your unit is way undersized for the space you trying to cool.
Our goal is to make the house plesant to live in with our main focus on the master bedroom and the living room in a single leve house. Only problem is the two are on oppiste ends of the house.
You need ductwork and a CENTRAL air conditioner to do that.
Probably somewhere in the 2-3 Ton range (24-36,000Btu)
A 5000Btu unit in each of the smaller rooms along the main hallway between the ends of the house
with a 10,000 Btu unit in the bigger rooms... will begin to approach that effect.
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