Anyone here use a portable AC for a small game room in a hot climate?
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I have a small upstairs room in North Dakota where I keep my RPG books and run a weekly table. It gets uncomfortably warm in July and August, and there is only one window, which faces west and takes direct afternoon sun. A window unit is not an option because of how the window opens, so I am considering a 10,000 BTU portable air conditioner. The things I keep going back and forth on are the vent hose setup — whether a single-hose unit will actually keep the room cool or just pull warm air back in — and how loud the compressor is when five of us are trying to hear each other talk. I also rent, so I do not want to do anything permanent to the window frame. I have only read third-party descriptions online, so I have no hands-on sense of any of this. If you have run a portable unit in a small room, how did it go, and was the noise or the venting the bigger problem?