Forum Archive: Posts by: presto1972

My kids’ bedroom contains the only access to the fire escape and also has an opening window guard on the only window in the room. I need to put an a/c in their room but can’t put in a window unit (it’ll block access to the fire escape). I’d like to get one of the portable a/c units that don’t need to be mounted in the window, but they still need the exhaust tube to go out the window. Problem here is that the tube for all the units I’ve seen is simply too wide to fit through the window guard gate. If I somehow rig a reducer for the tube to narrow it so it’ll fit (not even sure if it’s possible), I’m nervous that the reduced aperture would somehow stress the a/c (think of a blocked exhaust on a car).
Any ideas out there would be appreciate, thanks!