I knew the air conditioning unit was outside the kitchen.
- I lived in this house for four years, and I knew exactly where was because whenever I looked out the window I could see the top of the air conditioning unit.
What I didn’t realize until just this past summer, was that I couldn’t open my kitchen window because the AC unit was in the way. We had several really cool weeks during the summer were the air conditioning wasn’t necessary. I thought that I could open up a window in the kitchen and one in the living room, and get a cool breeze blowing to the house, but I thought wrong. The way the air conditioning unit was installed, they had nailed the windows shut. I thought this was kind of strange, and was going to pull the nails up. When I got outside, I realize air conditioning unit was much closer to the window than I had anticipated. Not only was it close to the window, but it was about 3 inches higher than the windowsill. I called the HVAC company, and asked there would be a problem if I open the window? They send an HVAC technician out to the house to inspect the situation. His first question was why did we have the air conditioning unit put directly under the window? I told him it had been there before we even bought this house but this was the first summer when I had considered opening up a window instead of having the AC unit running. He shook his head and told me we were stuck with the AC unit where was.