Where to store A/C?

Our apartment has an astonishing lack of storage. No hall closet, small ones in the bedrooms. We need to take our huge A/C out of the living room window cuz the cold air is coming in.

What do you do with yours? Put it under a hall table? Throw a table cloth over it and call it an end table? Have some sort of bench it fits under?

Help!

Subject: Re: Where to store A/C?

scarlett wrote: Throw a table cloth over it and call it an end table?

This ^ kinda. I put it off to the side, throw the throw over it, and it just becomes decorative whatever...

I have no space, either. I bought one of those A/C covers. Any hardware store sells them for a few bucks.

I keep mine in year round.

At my old place I just sort of listlessly tossed it in a lttle used corner of the kitchen and let it sit.

This year the ole' boy's on his last leg so he's going in the trash this wekeend when he gets pulled out. I'll worry about storage next year.

Make it the decorative center piece of your hallway.

Lo Kee wrote: This year the ole' boy's on his last leg so he's going in the trash this wekeend when he gets pulled out.

DSNY won't pick it up unless you've had the freon removed (which they'll do by appointment).

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dsny/html/collection/freon.shtml

I leave it in the window and duct tape the hell out of the edges. Pretty much any answer I have to any question you have will involve heavy duct tape usage.

It might be a little drafty if you're right next to that window, but it's better than having a damn AC sitting in your apartment. Plus, more duct tape = less draft.

Keep it in the left wing

im keeping mine in because my radiator is right below it and is making it aprox 400 degrees in my apartment. Its the only thing keeping me from baking.

wrap it somehow in a decorative throw and fasten a cool round cushion/pillow to the top of it and you have an ottoman!!

Subject: Re: Where to store A/C?

scarlett wrote: Throw a table cloth over it and call it an end table?

Precisely. Extra bed-side table in winter.

I keep mine in the zen room

If you can get to the outside of it, you can wrap it in plastic to keep the air out and leave it in. Just remember to remove the plastic before turning it on.

Hm. Yeah, it definitely has to come out. Thanks for the suggestions!

Slappy McBluelips wrote: Plus, more duct tape = less draft.

also, more duct tape = more fun

Carmen wrote: im keeping mine in because my radiator is right below it and is making it aprox 400 degrees in my apartment. Its the only thing keeping me from baking.

energy efficient! lolz

Carmen wrote: im keeping mine in because my radiator is right below it and is making it aprox 400 degrees in my apartment. Its the only thing keeping me from baking.

Perhaps you could consider taking out the AC and just leaving the window open? Or do you mean you are running the AC as a fan?

What about turning off the radiator, leaving the window closed? So many options!

arches wrote: What about turning off the radiator, leaving the window closed? So many options!

Well, I was making the assumption that she, like I, has no control over whether the radiator is on or off.

You gets to control your heat??? I am _so_ moving!

At my previous apartment, the sleeve (in the wall) for the A/C unit was just big enough that I could push the entire unit into the sleeve and pop the cover on. Convenient, that...

daver wrote: You gets to control your heat??? I am _so_ moving!

"Control" might be pushing it...i like to think that I'm able to "influence" the heat....ie, by turning off _all_ the radiator valves, I've lowered the temperature to a mere 78 degrees. Ugh, I can feel my carbon footprint growing.