What to do with an elephant trunk
Yeah I know, this blog has faced a bit of neglect over the last couple of months. Though now that I have a little more time, hopefully it’ll get some attention over the summer.
Speaking of summer, we decided to get a couple of portable air conditioners. One for my bedroom and another for the living room. However, these portable air conditioners come with a giant hose (or ‘elephant trunk’) in order to vent the hot air out through a window. Unfortunately the brackets they come with are no good with wind out windows (rather, they are designed for sliding windows) and it takes a lot of messing around to fill in the holes. Obviously they figure it’s too hard to have one size that fits all with these wind out windows, even though these windows probably make up 50% of household windows these days.
After a lot of messing around, we finally found a solution; Perspex. After getting a couple of sheets cut to size (one for each room), my brother cut out some holes with the jigsaw to match the bracket on the vent hose and lined the edges with an adhesive seal. The perspex just slots in place where the fly screen normally goes. As you can see in the photo below, you can hardly see it’s there, except for the trunk hanging from nowhere. While there may be some minor gaps around the edges, it’s not significant enough to pose any problem. Though if it is a concern, you could jam something in to seal up the gap completely.
