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all right so the most frequently asked
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question
that we have regarding acs in a window
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you know you have your bedroom
uh you rent this out to a college
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student or you rent it out to your
family i mean your family is using it
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and there’s a fire
and they have an older house and they
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have an ac unit
in the window as opposed to an ac unit
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up on the wall there
so let me show you uh why you can’t have
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any time
uh to uh deal with it
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window issues and that’s whether you’re
a person or whether you’re
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a uh an old older person whether you’re
a young child
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so i need to get out there’s a fire i’ve
got
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three to five minutes before smoke
inhalation becomes my problem
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um and then i have to get out of this
window to get onto the fire escape
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so but because i want to stay cool at
night i got an ac
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so let’s let’s let’s get this ac out of
here you know
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i’ve got a fire come in here
now i gotta be careful i gotta
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get all this stuff out i gotta i gonna
lift it
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oh there’s a lot of tape here so let’s
get this out of here
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i really don’t care anymore because the
fire is
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getting at me and i’m a little concerned
about the fire
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grab this and i gotta make sure it
doesn’t fall out the window
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because if it falls out the window and
gets onto the fire escape i’m gonna be
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stepping on it so
i’m gonna take it out
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throw it over here and
i’m out to the fire escape so
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that’s one of the problems with the ac i
have tape on mine
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but i’ve had people with screws sheet
rock screws
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they permanently secure the window so
that people from the outside can’t break
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in
and kick it in so aside from safety
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factor there’s also a break-in factor
with these ac
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units but i’m gonna go out so
this is one of the reasons why you can’t
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have an ac
in uh anywhere near the fire escape now
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if you look at this room
there’s two windows let’s look at one of
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the window behind you
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so if i was going to put an ac anywhere
i got to put it in that window not this
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window because if this is the window
that has the fire escape
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this is the way i gotta go out so this
is option number one
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why you can’t have an ac in your window
in order to get out and one of the main
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reasons is look how heavy it is and i’m
a
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an adult getting this out so if i’m old
if i have any disabilities and if i’m a
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child i’m not going to be able to do
this
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and god forbid i push it the wrong way
it’s going to land in the
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in the fire escape and now i have
something else i’m gonna trip over all
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right let’s look at another way
to get this done all right so now we
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have another alternative which is what
we recommend on all the buildings
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that people get what’s called the inside
unit this inside unit
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feeds that hose that’s in the wall right
there
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and that hose that’s in the wall is what
allows me to do this so whether i have
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this
in a bedroom or whether i have it in the
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living room and i gotta get out
and when you have a typical one you’re
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gonna have all kinds of stuff in the way
dining room tables chairs stuff but
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let’s say there’s a
there’s a fire going and i got smoke is
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my biggest issue i got three to five
minutes to get out of the smoke
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uh because the smoke will kill you not
the fire so
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but here i have an ac unit that i’ve
been using to cool down the apartment
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cool down my bedroom or the living area
which is where these are typically at
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and now watch me get out of here whether
i’m an old person young person
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a child somebody with disability
watch how quickly i can get out this
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window to to get out to the fire escape
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so
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all right show you how quickly i got up
i don’t care about this stuff i’ll push
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it aside i’ll knock it to the ground
whether you’re a young child so
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if you have an apartment and you’re
renting make sure that the tenants
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only have one of these units
a little bit more expensive but they
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come in different sizes 8000 btus 12 000
btus
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but the key is that this is all i have
to push out of the way
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and this is just to exhaust the heat
that’s all it does
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but it gives me immediate and i can just
push it out of the way
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it’s not a big deal but
as you can see if it’s a dining room or
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a mixed situation i just need to get out
as quickly as possible
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so no ac’s in the windows you have to
have an ac
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in an old apartment make sure that’s an
inside unit
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otherwise somewhere above
open a hole if the if the landlord wants
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to do that
you can open a hole or up above the
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window and at least seven feet so when i
step out
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i don’t hit my head on the bottom of an
ac so it has to have at least
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six eight which is about seven feet
clearance
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all right national fire escape
association helpful tips on fire escapes
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all right so one of the other options
cost a little bit more money
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is when you have an older property and
you want an ac but instead of putting an
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ac in your window
they put an ac they build it in so they
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your car your owner of the property has
to open up a hole
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stick the ac in it and that ac basically
is built into this into the wall now if
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it doesn’t stick out too far in the fire
escape
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and i mean two to four inches if it
sticks out more than that
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it becomes an obstruction you can’t have
this outside where your knees your feet
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are gonna smash into it so
this can happen way up there
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you know so you gotta put it at six feet
eight plus to the bottom of your can
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of the ac unit you need to have about
seven feet of clearance okay so if you
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have a nice
tall fire escape you can actually put it
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above the window
or next to the window but you can’t run
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your head into it
so you gotta put these units up above
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whenever possible but again it involves
cutting the wall open
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you have to have a power supply brought
in by an electrician
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and those things cost money so
again but it’s a better option than uh
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the ac in your window in case of a fire
because you have to
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take it out manhandle it and then get
out and you don’t have much time when
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smoke’s involved
because it’s not the fire that will get
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you it’s the smoke
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