Portable Air Conditioner Venting Into Attic

The condenser in your air conditioner works hard to get rid of heat and pressurize refrigerant for the return trip through your house.

Portable air conditioner venting into attic.

Exhausting it into a closet would be bad and wouldn t give you any net cooling in fact you d heat the system up from electricity consumption. The first option is to vent the portable air conditioner through an exterior wall. Fit the window kit to the length of your window and secure the kit in place. If the room you re attempting to cool has an exterior wall that leads directly outdoors you can cut a hole in that wall just large enough to provide adequate venting for all the hot air you re sucking out of the interior space.

Note it must be a well ventilated attic in this case or you will have a buildup of heat which will lead to premature thermal breakthrough of your insulation. That unit has an auto evaporation function which is marketing speak for dumping the moisture that condenses on the evaporator into the vented air stream. Put it in an attic full of blown insulation and you re forcing. According to the twh principle you can vent a portable air conditioner into any well ventilated space apart from the space being conditioned.

The purpose of a portable air conditioner is to cool down a room but in order to do that it must extract heat from the air. If the ac unit is not vented outside or into another room the hot air will remain locked up inside the space. Simply attach any hose connector adapters and insert the hose.