Hello Missy, 8,000 BTU is the optimum capacity. The 10,000 BTU would be overkill; it would cool the space better due to 2,000 BTU more cooling power but the electricity bill and the initial portable AC cost would be higher. Reply This is not intended to be a full statement of your rights under the Consumer Contracts Regulations. Full details of your rights are available from your Local Authority’s Trading Standards Office. How To Return A Product

Trying to figure out what I’d need for my enclosed patio. It has 2 (one exterior) doors, 6 windows, and 2 skylights. It’s 20ft by 15ft with 10 ft ceilings. There are 3 oaks but midday does get a lot of sun through the skylights. Live in Savannah, GA. Reply

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The same goes for sun exposure. If the room or area you’re looking to cool down is generally facing the sun, you will need a bigger air conditioner. My question relates to how the kitchen bump up intersects with the common advice that if you oversize your unit, then it can lead to short cycles that leave you with humidity and wear out the equipment. No article online seems to makes clear how much wiggle room you have before that might happen, and often it’s simultaneously encouraged to go one higher than you need. Hence this 4000BTU kitchen bump comes to mind and whether that’s enough to amount to a harmful oversize during the majority time the kitchen is not used.

The building is a townhouse with 3 floors and the room is on the 3rd (top floor) and is directly under the roof which gets the hot sun of San Diego. The bedroom also has an attached bathroom and is the only thing on the top floor next to a very small hallway up a flight of stairs. This is also the only room in the house that will have an ac ( we are renters and that is nonnegotiable at the moment) and the house in general and especially that room gets quite hot in the summer. If it breaks we'll fix it, if it develops a fault we'll get it working again. Well instruct either the manufacturer or a certified repair centre to repair it. Control your Tristar Wi-Fi Airco with the included remote control without getting off the couch. But even when you are not at home, you can control the device with the HomeWizard Climate app on your smartphone. Thanks to voice control through Siri or Google assistant, you can also switch the air conditioning on and off or adjust the temperature with voice commands. A malfunction in your WiFi? No problem, you can always control the air conditioning using the control panel on the device itself. The configuration problem I anticipate with using a single unit for the whole apartment is that the air flow from bedroom to living room involves passing through a narrow doorway and make a dog-leg turn. I look on fans as efficiency boosters, not as mandatory links in the cooling chain, if you see what I mean. Nor do I want to end up blasting the AC in one room but still getting an inferior result in the other.

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What other heat sources are present in the room? For example, light bulbs, computers, and technical devices with power supplies, such as televisions or music systems. The number of watts you need more.