Window Unit – Air Conditioner Help?
This is the first air conditioner we have put in that sucks in the stench from outside. The neighbors around here burn their recycle, one burns his garbage, another two burn nasty old pallets or left over lumber, and one next to us has 4-6 people that smoke often. They can do what they want to. That is not the problem. Not going to nag them about it.
Is there any temporary fix we can do to help prevent the stinky air from coming in through the a/c at all? This is the first a/c we got that has done this. Has a permanent filter that washes off. But I think that is where the air intake is at. The conditioned air blows out the top vents…..
As soon as we can afford it, and when the a/c go on clearance…..We are going to buy a portable a/c unit and hope that will work better for us. It will be easy to take in/out of the window as needed and that will be a plus.
For now all we can do is hang a slightly damp towel over the a/c vent and spray air freshener or lysol spray & run our hepa air purifier full blast. Ugh. There has to be something better than that.
What happens if you reduce the temperature / change the humidity? Theres a chance that as the air cools, the pollutants would fall out of the air and go out the condensate trap.
Sounds to me like there is a prob with unit itself. The unit does not suck air from out side and bring it in nor visa Versa. the air blowing in the house is sucked in the front were the filter is located and the and blown out the vent by the evap fan. the air you feel blowing outside is sucked from the vents on the side and blown out threw the condenser coils. It sound like a gasket is missing or a cover maybe if that is whats happening.
A lot of small window air conditoners have a vent damper knob or switch on them that will allow mixing of outside air. It would say exhaust on it. This is simply to be used when you run the fan only and you want to recirculate outside air with room air. If it has this switch or knob on it, you want it closed for cooling and in the open or exhaust position for fan-only operation.