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!
