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The AC is simply not reaching the computer room from the bedroom very swiftly. I was afraid of this - but I was hoping otherwise. There is the length of the hall, and even with the tornado fan blowing away from the stairs, there's the tendency of cold air to drop. I'm sure it will eventually cool this room at least somewhat, but on a weekday, by the time it could cool this room it would be time for bed. The unit itself is portable; the bits that go in the window don't require the screens out; and so perhaps we could move it back and forth.
Setting it up in the computer room and blowing to the bedroom would be the correct order of cooling, of course. But it would send most of it down the stairs anyway.
I was hoping, I really truly was. We can buy another unit, or we can trundle this one back and forth. The second option sounds better to me - often, of an evening, the bedroom's cool enough by bedtime but the computer room is still barely-tolerable because of the computers, and of course earlier in the evening it's awful. So perhaps we could just use it in the computer room, though we'd have to rearrange a bit to make that workable. It did cool the bedroom down tolerably when it was turned on, when I had the doors closed, so used that way it would likely do nicely. I was hoping for a more general-purpose solution, though. Oh, well, realistically I knew there was a chance it wouldn't be one.
And yes, I draw conclusions quickly, but it's been a while and still it's barely-tolerable here. Today was quite bad - I showed 96 around 2:30 - so it's a worst-case scenario, but it's illustrating well that a dent is barely being made. I think I'll try switching it up to the computer room, which I suppose means I'd first better pick up the things between our chairs and the window. Or Scott's, because really, between my chair and the window is the bookcase, and I'd rather not move that. :P
It works. But I don't think it will if Scott wants to use his computer. His seat and mine are both too close to the window, and the AC needs access as well. Maybe, if I moved the bookcase, I could leave a path between our chairs, but I think we'd have to keep the floor cleaner and even so both seats would have to move in when we used it. Fooey. I want easy answers, blast it. :P I could move my desk away from the window, but I adore my window, plus that's a lot of furniture moving, and I'm on the wrong side from where it opens. But I'm pretty sure Scott likes the window as much as I do, and his desk - which used to be mine and is a big old thing, which I thought was grand when I was younger and now I think is mostly a pain to move about - is nothing I want to shuffle even if he wanted to shuffle. Bother, bother. At least for the moment, though, the thing is starting the process of making the computer room liveable. I'll take the moment, and worry about the rest later. There was a thinner model Scott was looking at. Weaker, and more expensive; I don't really want to get it. But it might jam into the spot better than this one. I don't think it would be enough without moving the bookcase, but perhaps with....
Feh. Or we can make do with this one 'til we can properly explore central air. The house has the vents for it, as part of the heating system; even the thermostat has settings. We'd just need the actual units set up and all. Not this year, I think, but maybe soon. I do rather like being comfortable.
Setting it up in the computer room and blowing to the bedroom would be the correct order of cooling, of course. But it would send most of it down the stairs anyway.
I was hoping, I really truly was. We can buy another unit, or we can trundle this one back and forth. The second option sounds better to me - often, of an evening, the bedroom's cool enough by bedtime but the computer room is still barely-tolerable because of the computers, and of course earlier in the evening it's awful. So perhaps we could just use it in the computer room, though we'd have to rearrange a bit to make that workable. It did cool the bedroom down tolerably when it was turned on, when I had the doors closed, so used that way it would likely do nicely. I was hoping for a more general-purpose solution, though. Oh, well, realistically I knew there was a chance it wouldn't be one.
And yes, I draw conclusions quickly, but it's been a while and still it's barely-tolerable here. Today was quite bad - I showed 96 around 2:30 - so it's a worst-case scenario, but it's illustrating well that a dent is barely being made. I think I'll try switching it up to the computer room, which I suppose means I'd first better pick up the things between our chairs and the window. Or Scott's, because really, between my chair and the window is the bookcase, and I'd rather not move that. :P
It works. But I don't think it will if Scott wants to use his computer. His seat and mine are both too close to the window, and the AC needs access as well. Maybe, if I moved the bookcase, I could leave a path between our chairs, but I think we'd have to keep the floor cleaner and even so both seats would have to move in when we used it. Fooey. I want easy answers, blast it. :P I could move my desk away from the window, but I adore my window, plus that's a lot of furniture moving, and I'm on the wrong side from where it opens. But I'm pretty sure Scott likes the window as much as I do, and his desk - which used to be mine and is a big old thing, which I thought was grand when I was younger and now I think is mostly a pain to move about - is nothing I want to shuffle even if he wanted to shuffle. Bother, bother. At least for the moment, though, the thing is starting the process of making the computer room liveable. I'll take the moment, and worry about the rest later. There was a thinner model Scott was looking at. Weaker, and more expensive; I don't really want to get it. But it might jam into the spot better than this one. I don't think it would be enough without moving the bookcase, but perhaps with....
Feh. Or we can make do with this one 'til we can properly explore central air. The house has the vents for it, as part of the heating system; even the thermostat has settings. We'd just need the actual units set up and all. Not this year, I think, but maybe soon. I do rather like being comfortable.
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We've also got a heating vent in the hallway that can't be closed. I tried blocking it with the nearest objects, but that probably wasn't enough. I think I'll plastic the thing over for now and see if that helps as well.
The real headache is that both rooms are on the east side of the house. They heat up early, they heat up well, and you have to get the air to "turn" in the hallway, which it seems to not want to do. I wonder if I got a couple clip fans on the door frame, the lower one aimed in, the upper one aimed out to the hallway....