This afternoon
Jun. 6th, 2003 07:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisFriday afternoon off and today is air conditioning day. It is way too hot here. Even those idiots who live in Seattle and wait every year for it to get hot, are saying it's too hot. I should have put the air conditioner in last weekend. But, it was barely June!
My air conditioner is on wheels and lives in a storage closet on the terrace except for, usually, July and August. It's built to vent out a regular window, but I don't have any. My windows don't open. My sliding glass door does and that's my only option. The first year I got 1" think form board and carved out a form that sat in the door rails. I cut out a place for the vent. It didn't work too well and looked really ugly.
The next year I was setting up the ugly foam board when I spied the never used cat door. The winter before I bought this cat door (the kind you slip into sliding glass doors) thinking the cats would love it and I could put the liter box on the terrace. The cats so didn't love it.
So I cut a vent hole out of the door flap. It kind of worked a little - but massive heat leaks out the flap and the top. One day I was at the discount fabric store and over in a corner they were selling parts and pieces of foam rubber. For $50 I picked up a big piece about the size of a 10 foot 4x4. I cut out the rest of the cat door flap and used the foam rubber to both block out air and hold the vent hose. then I used more foam rubber to seal off the top of the door.
Perfect solution that didn't even look bad and has been easy enough to set up every year. But, I noticed last year that the foam rubber was having it's last year. It was kind of disintegrating.
Sooooo (finally she gets to her point) today it's off to the fabric store again and the expenditure of yet another $.50!
And I do need to make a quick grocery stop.
And then it's home to set everything up and get cool... Pictures? You say you want pictures? Well, of course , you shall have them!
My air conditioner is on wheels and lives in a storage closet on the terrace except for, usually, July and August. It's built to vent out a regular window, but I don't have any. My windows don't open. My sliding glass door does and that's my only option. The first year I got 1" think form board and carved out a form that sat in the door rails. I cut out a place for the vent. It didn't work too well and looked really ugly.
The next year I was setting up the ugly foam board when I spied the never used cat door. The winter before I bought this cat door (the kind you slip into sliding glass doors) thinking the cats would love it and I could put the liter box on the terrace. The cats so didn't love it.
So I cut a vent hole out of the door flap. It kind of worked a little - but massive heat leaks out the flap and the top. One day I was at the discount fabric store and over in a corner they were selling parts and pieces of foam rubber. For $50 I picked up a big piece about the size of a 10 foot 4x4. I cut out the rest of the cat door flap and used the foam rubber to both block out air and hold the vent hose. then I used more foam rubber to seal off the top of the door.
Perfect solution that didn't even look bad and has been easy enough to set up every year. But, I noticed last year that the foam rubber was having it's last year. It was kind of disintegrating.
Sooooo (finally she gets to her point) today it's off to the fabric store again and the expenditure of yet another $.50!
And I do need to make a quick grocery stop.
And then it's home to set everything up and get cool... Pictures? You say you want pictures? Well, of course , you shall have them!
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Date: 2003-06-06 12:32 pm (UTC)I had to chuckle when I read your post. I first read that the rubber foam was $ 50.00, which if it really works sufficiently is well worth it's price in gold to be nice and cool. Then I read further down the post....FIFTY CENTS? Wow, you've really gotten a deal there.
Btw, I picked up one of those Shark Cordless sweepers at Target 2 days ago. It's everything you said it was and only $ 59.99.
So far, I've purchased your recommended shower head, and now the sweeper. I'd go with your other phone and handheld toys, but I really don't need them right now.
Oh, and I have rented a few of your recommended Netflix DVD's.
In addition to your Books, and Knitting....I'm wondering if a "Susan's Consumer Buys and Reviews" isn't in order?
You had me so hungry for egg rolls one day from Costco, I went over there, but was so disappointed to find out that they no longer carry any egg rolls. (at least not in the Costco near me.)
Thanks for all of your excellent recommendations! You save me lots and lots of needless comparison shopping and time. Now, I just have to start purchasing some books on Half.com and I'm a very happy woman.
Anne
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Date: 2003-06-06 03:56 pm (UTC)You should post your Netflix queue! My list right now is kind of full of iffy things. But I did get About Schmidt for this weekend so I can't really complain.
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Date: 2003-06-06 06:09 pm (UTC)I just sent back "Two Weeks Notice" this morning, my next 3 are:
The Pianist
About Schmidt
and thanks to you once again,Coupling Series 1
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Date: 2003-06-06 06:17 pm (UTC)