Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Before you order you need to know the 4 main factors that affect the efficiency of an air conditioner. Knowing that you will be able to order exactly the BTU rating for your need and you will be happy with your purchase. These factors are 1. Square footage, 2 Room Insulation 3 Sunny room and 4 Kitchen Rather than write a long essay about these factors let me draw your attention to an online calculator by goodhousekeeping dot com/home/air-conditioner-calculator. Put in the information and it will give you the BTU to order. I ordered this unit for my open space 750 square feet house. The only rooms with a door are bedroom and bathroom. I do use a regular fan from Walmart to help push and circulate the air around. And so this unit work just fine for me. The other consideration y to give is the window size and the type of window construction. That is wooden, Metal, Vinyl and if exterior is brick. The next thing to consider was 3.8 pints per hour of water spill in the rear. So any time the AC is run in just 4 hours there can be up to 2 gallons of water dumping behind the AC and so which window it is installed on will matter. Apart from that I use this AC as a replacement for my central air because it works similar to it. I set the temperature on the thermostat set to Econ and Auto on the fan and that’s all I have to worry with. I can up or down the temperature any time I want to just like the central air. Acceptation this AC is more economical. The blast from the unit is pretty powerful in that I can feel it a good 20 feet away. I have two other Frigidaire 5K units with similar features and so at night, the one in bedroom, I take it off the Eco/Energy saver mode and keep it on cool setting because in Eco mode once the temperature is reached the machine cycles on and off every 10 minutes which kept us awake. This machine is 60 pounds and so if you can lift your 50 pound bag when traveling by air then another 10 is not bad at all. My wife helped me wedge it on the window sill and brought the window down once I had it in place. By the way I have metal windows and brick exterior. Another feature I love is the clean air. Clean air ionizer removes pollen and impurities from the air providing relief for allergy sufferers while fresh air vent/exhaust control removes odors. This is in addition to the regular filter. Do use the fasteners supplied for installation that way no one can push the AC in and climb into your window. That is if you are installing it on ground floor. At this point I just want to say I ended up exchanging two machines as a result of UPS delivery guys mishandling my units. Right in front of me they threw the machine on their cart then threw the machine on the floor. To top it when confronted one uttered racial blurr “We do not break our backs for people like you”. So I have requested Amazon.com to take my deliveries off UPS and to use other available companies. That’s it I installed my AC, set it and left it alone for the rest of the summer.  Hope that helps. Good Luck.