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Window and portable ACs · quiz already filled
The quiz already filled these answers: a window unit, a medium room, a double-hung sash, just-cold (not sleep-quiet), and a $220–280 ceiling. The card below is the pick that fits that budget: the current Frigidaire FHWC083 a picky cheap buyer will actually hang, not a $400 U they will never buy, and not a no-name 5,000-BTU Amazon special. Change the form to a portable and the winner changes.
Just-cold on a medium sash at $280 is a basic 8,000-BTU you can hang today — not a quiet U you will not spend for.
The pick that fits this budget is the Frigidaire FHWC083. A $400 U can show if you raise the ceiling. That is not this page.
This page stays on a window unit and just-cold. A portable at the same money is a different machine.
This card is the quiz winner for the filled answers. Change an answer and you can get a different winner.
In budget
Frigidaire
$220
A basic 8,000-BTU sash that just gets a medium room cold. You give up the U-shaped quiet seal. Not a 12k, and not a slider chassis.
WhyA medium sash that just needs cold: the Frigidaire 8k. Sleep-quiet is a different machine.
See dealIf you can stretch
Midea
$400
The quiet U for a medium sash. The compressor hangs outside so the room stays sleepable. Will not fit a slider. Not a 12k U, and not a portable.
See dealThe other shape
Windmill
$389
The quiet sash 8,000-BTU for a small bedroom. Inverter, not a cheap compressor. Not a U, and not a 12k for a big room.
See dealSwitch to a portable and the pick becomes the BLACK+DECKER BPP05, about $220 — a small hose unit, not the sash 8,000-BTU on this page.
With those answers, the pick is BLACK+DECKER 5,000-BTU Portable Air Conditioner. See the portable pick
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