It's about to get hot here where I live, and me and my wife have decided to try an AC unit for the first time in our lives. New ones are quite pricey, but I can get some used noname brands for less than $150. However we don't want any major construction work in our apartment, so I'm rather looking at the portable ones, not the permanently-installable ones.
The problem is - our apartment, like all others around here, have a tilt-and-turn type of window. I understand that in the US/Canada it's more popular to have slide windows, so for those of you who don't know what it is - here's a
picture I found on Google. Basically I can open any window either fully sidewise, or in a small gap upwards.
So my question is - will it work if I simply hang the exhaust pipe out the window? Or will that just make all the hot air come right back in again? Any tricks I can use?
