Frigidaire Portable Room Air Conditioner, 8,000 BTU

I use this unit in my garage 16×32 R12 insulation, to keep it warm from Mar to Jun and Sep to Jan and cool from Jul to Sep. set it at 18C for the garage and it keeps the area warm at 19-20C. It was only 4C out the other day and I left the unit on 25C and it got up to 23C in the garage. As far as I am concerned , the single hose is much better for the using the heat mode than the double hose unit, which draws cold air from outside while the single hose draws the warmer air from inside the room and heats it up more , even though there is a negative pressure caused from the high exhaust flow wanting to draw air from outside through little gaps , it still warms up well in the garage ,…..i’m Guessing it is due to the fact that heat rises and then comes down when the colder air is at the lowest and gets exhausted more than the heated air. Update……..7Aug 2023.still working as it should, ac is awesome in the garage. So far really glad with this purchase!!!

Solid, easy set-up, great buy!

If you’re in a 3rd floor dorm room with terrible AC and a window you can’t put a window AC in, this is the unit for you. It is very quiet for an air conditioner, it’s quieter than the whole-house air conditioner at my parent’s house (though, that unit is right outside a single-pane window and 10 years old). At it’s highest fan setting, it’s about as loud as a desk fan. You can hardly notice when the compressor kicks on, it isn’t much louder than the fan, just a lower tone. Very comfortable to sleep next to, very unintrusive in my daily life. It cools the air, it blasts the air, it won’t fall out of your window and kill someone. I got mine for $179 on sale, and at that price, it was a fantastic deal. I am very impressed by the quality and performance of this unit. For $50 more, I may be a bit more hesitant recommending it if a window air conditioner would work in your room. Since this is a portable air conditioner, it is substantially less power efficient than a window air conditioner. It uses the same amount of electricity as an 8000 BTU window unit, with an effective cooling power of only 5500 BTUs. I’m perfectly happy with that since I pay flat rate rent which includes utilities, but you may not be so lucky.

Installing the exhaust panel into my window was a bit of a challenge at first since I thought I would need a hacksaw to cut the sliding plastic panel to the right size, but I was able to make it work by scoring it in the right place repeatedly (and firmly) with a utility knife and snapping it over my leg. If you have the grip strength to force a utility knife into some industrial plastic, installation will require no special tools. Just a utility knife and a #2 Phillips head screwdriver. If you’d like to be a bit more careful and less brutish with it, a $5 hacksaw from Walmart will do the job as intended. Keep in mind, this unit is HEAVY! Felt like 50lbs at least, and I had to carry it up 3 flights of stairs. If you’re on the weaker or smaller side of the human size distribution, get a friend to help you. It comes in a large box and it is very heavy on the bottom side.

Also, I didn’t know this when I bought it, but it comes with a super nifty little remote that has an LCD display on it telling you all the current settings, and the unit beeps when you press a button on the remote to let you know it received the command. Absolutely happy with this machine, highly recommend it. And there’s NO DRAINAGE OR WATER HOSE REQUIRED unless you turn it to the dehumidifier mode! Simply fantastic, my parents had an older portable AC that required you to dump a bucket of water from it every three hours. Couldn’t be more satisfied with my purchase. Hats off to you, Frigidaire engineers.

I bought this last May 2023 and used it through the summer. It seemed to work fine, I cleaned and stored it for the winter like the manual says. I got it out April 2024 and hooked everything back up, the unit powers up and the fan runs but no longer gets cold.

I called Frigidaire since it was under warranty and even purchased the extended warranty so it would be covered for another few years. Deling with the phone rep seemed to go well. I went online and uploaded pictures of the serial number tag and answered the same questions again. Once I submitted it I never received a confirmation, no updates, and there is no tracking of any kind available online. The only thing is one line that says it was approved.

I’ve made at least 20 phone calls, several online chats, and emailed back and for countless times. After weeks of this I was finally able to get an order number for the replacement but there is no way to look it up. Ive been told they will have the installer call me, then they tell me it’s coming by UPS. They have given me phone numbers that are disconnected. To this date I still have no idea where my replacement is, if it is ever coming, or what is actually going on with this company.

This was one of the few times Amazon actually let me down. I called their customer service and received no help whatsoever from them.

I will be sure to tell everyone I know to stay away from Frigidaire and AMZ going forward.