A while ago, we moved our furnitures around, and had the AC in the corner of the bedroom. It felt like it didnt do much there in the end, so I decided to do one last change – in the living room we had a small table, and I put that next to our bed and put the AC tower on that table. That way, we raised the exhaust fan well above the bed, so it didnt get blocked off. The Lady didnt mind it before, but then again – all the chill reached her, but noone else. The other thing I did was that I took a vacuum to it. For the entire year we’ve had it (it feels like we’ve had it for two years, but I just looked it up – it’s only one year and two weeks), not once have we cleaned it.
It was making weird noises and you could hear the fans were working hard to cool the air. I filled up almost the entire plastic can on the vacuum of dust from all over that AC, and I think I need to remove the dust screen to vacuum inside of it eventually. While I was at it, I also emptied the condensation tanks (where the AC stores the condensation that occurs when you actively chill and dehumidify the air, so it doesnt leak water everwhere), and while it wasn’t as much as I expected, I dont know the size of the tanks. Maybe they were full?
In any case, it’s comparatively silent now, the fans blow a lot more even now and you cant hear it reving up as hard as it did before. It’s more of white noise now, compared to the garage revving it sounded like before. And since it’s placed higher up, the bedroom is actually great now, compared to the rest of the apartment – while it’s a sweltering 85 degrees outside and not too far off in the rest of the apartment, it’s a cool 64 degrees in the bedroom now. AND, if I get to bed earlier than the Lady now, I can even direct the blow to go directly over the bed and blow on me, so if I get to bed early, I can fall asleep in the cold breeze!