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Hello! We bought a 3rd floor condo two years ago, and we toured it in the fall where we didn’t realize how hot it gets 🤦♀️ Anyways, the issue we are having is keeping the place cool. We have 2 AC’s - one in the wall in the living room (it’s specs say it’s good enough to cool the whole area plus more) but that wasn’t keeping up enough, even with the office and bedroom closed. It’s regularly 80+ degrees in here even with the in wall AC going all day and with the other rooms closed off. And we make sure to turn it on early in the AM so it cools down before it gets too warm outside. The most success is had was having it stay steadily at 80-82F We recently got a portable AC for my husband office since he WFH and unfortunately due to the way the place is wired, we can only run 1 AC at a time. And often times the living room AC is working so hard it flips the breaker. We are working on getting that fixed soon so the living room AC has its own designated outlet. Right now since we can only run 1 AC we’ve just been using the portable one in the office and keeping his door closed- while running fans during the day to help air circulate in the other rooms- but that unfortunately means the living room AC is off and it gets to be about 84-85 degrees during the day. We also open all the windows and set up fans at night but it only cools down to about 82. We can seem to get a good breeze or the hot air out since all our windows are on one side. But it’ll be 68-70 degrees at night. My questions are these: Ideally, once we get the electrician to fix the living room AC so we can have 2 running at the same time- should we move the portable to the bedroom and try to circulate the air around or should we keep it in his office? How do we create a draft at night? Right now we have 3 fans, 2 turbos and a box fan. We normally have one facing into the bedroom, one in the hallway pointing toward the living room, and then a fan at the door pulling air out. Is that effective or is there another technique? Any help would be appreciated Thanks!! - sincerely 2 very sweaty home owner amd long hair cat lol
Intent Score
18
Intent
92
Confidence
Summary
The post is about cooling a condo and airflow, with only a very indirect connection to windows through nighttime ventilation.
Reasoning
This is primarily an HVAC/air circulation problem, not a window replacement or window repair inquiry. The author mentions opening windows at night and struggling to create a draft, but there is no discussion of window condition, drafts from failing windows, replacement options, costs, or installers.
Extracted Signals
- mentions windows for ventilation only
“We also open all the windows and set up fans at night but it only cools down to about 82.”
- airflow/draft concern
“We can seem to get a good breeze or the hot air out since all our windows are on one side.”
Model: gpt-5.4-mini · Prompt: v3 · 6/11/2026, 9:02:20 AM