Inexpensive use of airconditioner for studio apartment.

Living in an era of inexpensive products, versus medical bills and rents, I decided to get an airconditioner.

For several years, I thought I didn't need it. Bellinham usually has a cool summer breeze. I'm on the northside of a building and I'm out on my bike quite a bit anyway.

Still, there are predictions of a warm summer, this year, and likely more to continue due to global warming. I've been thinking about getting one for warm nights when it can be harder to sleep. So I decided to get it, thinking I would use it sparingly.

I don't pay a powerbill. That's included in my reasonable rent in subsidized housing. Still, I think about energy usage.

Spring is a good time to buy, before a potentially hot summer sets in and supply of such items diminishes.

All the local ones, I found, were more powerful than my needs, plus finding a way to bring it to my apartment besides on my bicycle.

This became one of the few things I bought off Amazon. Larger selection; though admittely I only looked in one Bellingham store due to the traffic sprawl of going all over town to comparison shop.

It's rated for just the size of my studio and delivered right to my door.

I've retrotfiited it to my space.

I've added to the window fitting so it can be easily removed from the window and stored, unless I'm actually using the airconditioner.

I close my 7th floor windows at night unless it is hot as traffic on the street below my apartment is amazingly loud.

When unit is running, it does drown out the traffic. Often I just use it on "fan only" mode to bring in cool night air from outside.

Most of the time I just keep it stored as just the window breeze is usually sufficient.