Window Units. I have no idea

[2kchevy06civic 5,000+ posts]

Soooooooooo, I've never had to own or even really looked into Window Units. I guess I've just always had central heat and air. But the place I'm about to move into is an upstairs room(it's like an attic that has been turned into a room, it's a very good size room).

anyways my question for you folks that have experience in this area, what do I look for? I would love to have one that heats and cools and my budget is like 200ish to 300ish. I'm not really wanting to spend much over that. I'm not actually sure on the actual square footage of the room but just know it's a very good size area. Probably the size of two medium sized rooms.

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[crunktimes.com 5,000+ posts]

I am not sure what 'medium' is considered but used to just have a cheap $100 5,500BTU in the window of the bedroom of my apt which was about 12x12 and it worked fine.

I have never heard of one that does heat and cool so I can't offer any help on that.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

look on amazon.com and read all the reviews on different models.

 

[2kchevy06civic 5,000+ posts]

I dunno....just think of like the size of an apartment room but two of those combined. I haven't really had the chance to measure it yet. I guess I could take a picture to give a reference....I think the living room in my parents house is pretty close to the same size.

 

[crunktimes.com 5,000+ posts]

Well it will always be cheaper if you do one room, I did the small 5.5kBTU because I wanted to save some cash. I had a big monster one my dad gave me that was something crazy like 13kBTU and my bill went through the roof!

5.5k I was paying $40/mo or so extra, 13kBTU my bill was like $150 more than normal which I guess makes more sense as it was almost 3x as big and older thus less efficient.

 

[2kchevy06civic 5,000+ posts]

ok I just measured one of the bigger rooms in this house and it's around 25 feet long. that's a good guess as to how big the room I'm staying in now is. It doesn't have a very high ceiling at all and isn't very wide but it's pretty long as you can tell.

 

[95BlackGA 5,000+ posts]

I have a small LG unit (I'll try to find the model), that cools my small *** apartment (700 sq ft.) in about 30 minutes.

http://www.circuitcity.com/ccd/productDetail.do?oid=172616&om_keycode=4

 

[2kchevy06civic 5,000+ posts]

I have a small LG unit (I'll try to find the model), that cools my small *** apartment (700 sq ft.) in about 30 minutes.
http://www.circuitcity.com/ccd/productDetail.do?oid=172616&om_keycode=4

**** that's not a bad price at all for that unit. and that's a pretty good area that you have to cool too. Thanks man.

 

[2kchevy06civic 5,000+ posts]

any other suggestions from people? Otherwise I'm probably gonna order that LG it's got great reviews. And the price is nice as well.

 

[SethPhillips 5,000+ posts]

would you really need to heat that upstairs room being that heat rises?

and allso depends on how well it's insulated ect..

 

[2kchevy06civic 5,000+ posts]

would you really need to heat that upstairs room being that heat rises?
and allso depends on how well it's insulated ect..

well seeing as how it's about to be winter I'm pretty sure just a small heater would suffice but if there was a nice unit that could do both I would just rather do that. Heat does rise but that doesn't mean it won't get cold. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

 

[SethPhillips 5,000+ posts]

well seeing as how it's about to be winter I'm pretty sure just a small heater would suffice but if there was a nice unit that could do both I would just rather do that. Heat does rise but that doesn't mean it won't get cold. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

yes.

allso haveing a heater in the window is kinda wierd if you did find a window unit that dose both.

due to the fact of properly sealing up the window from the cold outside air..

best bet is window unit for a/c in the summer.

close & seal off window and some sort of radiated, fan heater for the winter.

 

[Atimm693 10+ year member]

Maybe a couple electric baseboard heaters for heat? That's what our house has, it's too old to have central air/heating.

 

[2kchevy06civic 5,000+ posts]

Maybe a couple electric baseboard heaters for heat? That's what our house has, it's too old to have central air/heating.

yeah I'll probably just by two....I was just over there today and it's a lot longer then what I said. It's well OVER 25 feet long.

 

[Atimm693 10+ year member]

yeah I'll probably just by two....I was just over there today and it's a lot longer then what I said. It's well OVER 25 feet long.

Yeah, its almost 300.00 extra a month to heat our 3000sq ft house in the winter, with a wood furnace. For a small room it shouldn't be much, especially if you are installing them yourself.