The Six Deaths of Eric » Heat http://sixdeaths.com/blog random thoughts in between random events Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:29:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=82b556cb4a9731967b75b1f754cb32b7&size=150 My Apartment Just Got Classier http://sixdeaths.com/blog/2008.06.28/my-apartment-just-got-classier http://sixdeaths.com/blog/2008.06.28/my-apartment-just-got-classier#comments Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:22:46 +0000 Eric Shell http://sixdeaths.com/blog/?p=282 I’ve complained here before (twice, actually) about how hot my apartment gets over the summer, and I’ve even vowed multiple times to find a new place before summer. But it turns out that I’m pretty lazy, so I came up with a different plan: to get an air conditioner. That part was pretty easy; I just bought Marques’s A/C unit when he moved to London.

The trickier part was figuring out what to do with the hot air produced by the A/C. It has a vent in the back, and there’s a hose that you can hook to it with some rubber so you can seal one of your windows, but I don’t have any windows that open in my living room. I just have a screen door. So, in the pinnacle of modern home decor, I went to the Home Depot and bought some styrofoam to seal up my screen door with. It’s all hooked up now, and my apartment has already cooled off about 6°, which is a big win in my book.

]]> I’ve complained here before (twice, actually) about how hot my apartment gets over the summer, and I’ve even vowed multiple times to find a new place before summer. But it turns out that I’m pretty lazy, so I came up with a different plan: to get an air conditioner. That part was pretty easy; I just bought Marques’s A/C unit when he moved to London.

The trickier part was figuring out what to do with the hot air produced by the A/C. It has a vent in the back, and there’s a hose that you can hook to it with some rubber so you can seal one of your windows, but I don’t have any windows that open in my living room. I just have a screen door. So, in the pinnacle of modern home decor, I went to the Home Depot and bought some styrofoam to seal up my screen door with. It’s all hooked up now, and my apartment has already cooled off about 6°, which is a big win in my book.

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