500CM(197″) Universal Window Seal for Portable Air Conditioner and Tumble Dryer – Works with Every Mobile Air-Conditioning Unit

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I’ve been trying to install my portable AC into a casement window for a week now. I have an outward-opening casement which opens vertically from the bottom.Before this, I tried a bunch of stuff to seal the window kit provided with my AC. Even after getting a sheet of plexiglass cut for the window, my AC still was leaking too much heat back into the room, and the plastic from the window installation kit even warped itself. This was my last hope… and luckily it worked like a charm! I’m pretty sure I even accidentally ordered one slightly too large for my window, but it still fits and works fine after rolling up some excess material.Installation was super easy albeit a little tedious — the instructions were kind of bad and the video instructions online were very poorly shot (there’s an animated video and a real-life demo, both of which not super helpful), but it was pretty much just a matter of cutting two sets of 4 velcro strips – one set for the casement, and one set for the window frame.Then you velcro the “seal”, but annoyingly you have to pick a specific side to velcro to the casement vs the window frame, and the only way to tell which side is to follow the edge all the way until it tapers off at the end. It would be really nice if they would color the velcro on one side in order to tell that it’s the “wide” side vs the narrow side.I mentioned that I got one which is slightly too big for my window – I rolled up the extra material in the area where I wasn’t able to finish getting a velcro seal, and taped it up with some painter’s tape. They say to use elastic for this purpose, but didn’t provide any. It’s not perfectly sealed in that area, and I expect I might need to do a better job of rolling it up if there’s another big heat wave in the area.Installing with two hoses is just as easy as installing with one — it’s just an extra zipper in the seal. I pointed them both downwards.After turning on the AC, there is very little heat being leaked back into the room, which is perfect! Like I mentioned, this is so far the only solution that has worked for my casement window. The material is high enough quality that I don’t expect it to degrade significantly in the near future, the zippers move pretty easily around the seal, and overall I’m pretty happy with it.
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