Unlike window air conditioners, portable air conditioners roll easily from room to room and are quick to set up, with no labor-intensive mounting and very few tools required. Most just require a ...

It’s safe to say that this past weekend was a hot one, and it looks as though there is more warm weather on the horizon. With days reaching up to 95 degrees and nights holding steady at over 60 ...

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Are you in the process of figuring out how to beat the summer heat this year? Are our evaporative cooling units appearing more and more attractive compared to conventional air conditioners? If the ...

Based on Consumer Reports’ testing of portable air conditioners, they should be seen as a last resort for cooling a home when fans aren’t enough or other types of air conditioners aren’t an option.

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Simple air conditioners are really nothing more than a heat exchanger that move heat—or cold—from one place to another. Usually, they take warm air and move it across ice or chilled water where it ...