Outdoor Air Conditioner Safety

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  • canadiancare
    Daycare Member
    • Nov 2009
    • 552

    #16
    does anyone have something concrete about the mesh and zipties? I just did it to mine but the guy at home depot wasn't too certain there would be enough airflow and I can't find anything online recommending this.

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    • rubyecro
      Daycare.com Member
      • Aug 2014
      • 26

      #17
      Originally posted by canadiancare
      does anyone have something concrete about the mesh and zipties? I just did it to mine but the guy at home depot wasn't too certain there would be enough airflow and I can't find anything online recommending this.
      My husband is a HVAC tech and he says there needs to be 12 inches for ventilation. So I don't think mesh around it is a good idea, but I will ask him.

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      • Thriftylady
        Daycare.com Member
        • Aug 2014
        • 5884

        #18
        In Kansas my ac was in my play area. It was next to the house (like most) and on one side that connected to the house it was six inches from a fence. We bought two T posts, put them in and wired some of that cheap barrier fencing the kind with the big squares about six inches out from the other two sides, up next to the house and the other fence. My surveyor LOVED it. She even took pics of my play area to show other providers who said there was not enough room. It was on the side of my house and about 6 foot from the house to the fence the whole way down the house there were gates going to front and to the back yard. I kept a lock on the one going to the back yard. But the AC was the easy part to set up. You really don't need much and it doesn't have to take space to block it.

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        • mommyneedsadayoff
          Daycare.com Member
          • Jan 2015
          • 1754

          #19
          My husband works in HVAC and said you could put a fence around it, but just make it so there is at least a one or two foot clearance around it and that there is a way to access it if you have to have it services. Don't put anything on the top of it. It will make your compressor go out and that is not good! I don't know your age group, but some landscaping with rocks or whatever would be good and then a very stern rule that no one is allowed on the rock area. Very swift punishment or consequence for going on the rock area. (the rock area is hot lava)

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