Portable Air Conditioner Venting Into Attic

The condenser in your air conditioner works hard to get rid of heat and pressurize refrigerant for the return trip through your house.

Portable air conditioner venting into attic.

Hooking this up to your typical attic would be bad. This will not only prevent the room from cooling but will actually make it hotter. Put it in an attic full of blown insulation and you re forcing. Note it must be a well ventilated attic in this case or you will have a buildup of heat which will lead to premature thermal breakthrough of your insulation.

The purpose of a portable air conditioner is to cool down a room but in order to do that it must extract heat from the air. Simply attach any hose connector adapters and insert the hose. According to the twh principle you can vent a portable air conditioner into any well ventilated space apart from the space being conditioned. Exhausting it into a closet would be bad and wouldn t give you any net cooling in fact you d heat the system up from electricity consumption.

If the ac unit is not vented outside or into another room the hot air will remain locked up inside the space. The first option is to vent the portable air conditioner through an exterior wall. Fit the window kit to the length of your window and secure the kit in place.