Hey everyone, new to the forum here. I'm fairly new to the whole portable AC unit deal, and i'm having some troubles.
So here's my problem. I purchased a 300 square foot storage (10ftx30ft) unit to use as a shop for my company. Now I live in South Florida and it can get extremely hot, especially in the unit. I was using fans to cool me off, but it's just too hot during the day to work in there.
I decided to purchase a Portable AC Unit (12000 BTUs) to attempt to cool the area. Here's where it gets technical. The unit has shared airspace with the neighboring units which consists of about 2ft of empty space that goes around the top of the walls in the unit. I stapled and taped visqueen to stop the shared air to keep the cool air in my unit. Now, there's no windows in the unit, so that makes exhausting pretty difficult. Since there is no windows, I placed a custom shelf on the wall where I have the AC unit sitting on now. I routed the exhaust through visqueen so that the exhaust blows into the neighboring units since there is no one there.
The ceiling in the unit isn't insulated so it gets extremely hot. Since the AC in so high up on the shelf, it hits the ceiling before dropping. My guess is that the cold AC possibly gets warm after hitting that ceiling? I was thinking about placing a 2" thick insulation sheet where the AC hits the ceiling so it does't hit the heat.
Any help would be great, even if it's as simple as i'm wasting my time lol. Thanks so much.
So here's my problem. I purchased a 300 square foot storage (10ftx30ft) unit to use as a shop for my company. Now I live in South Florida and it can get extremely hot, especially in the unit. I was using fans to cool me off, but it's just too hot during the day to work in there.
I decided to purchase a Portable AC Unit (12000 BTUs) to attempt to cool the area. Here's where it gets technical. The unit has shared airspace with the neighboring units which consists of about 2ft of empty space that goes around the top of the walls in the unit. I stapled and taped visqueen to stop the shared air to keep the cool air in my unit. Now, there's no windows in the unit, so that makes exhausting pretty difficult. Since there is no windows, I placed a custom shelf on the wall where I have the AC unit sitting on now. I routed the exhaust through visqueen so that the exhaust blows into the neighboring units since there is no one there.
The ceiling in the unit isn't insulated so it gets extremely hot. Since the AC in so high up on the shelf, it hits the ceiling before dropping. My guess is that the cold AC possibly gets warm after hitting that ceiling? I was thinking about placing a 2" thick insulation sheet where the AC hits the ceiling so it does't hit the heat.
Any help would be great, even if it's as simple as i'm wasting my time lol. Thanks so much.
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