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Units with Wi-Fi support can be set to run on a schedule, or integrated with other smart home devices. This often requires ...

After years of sticky summers in small city apartments, my childhood memories of air-conditioned houses started to feel more and more distant. Living in buildings with small, oddly-shaped windows or ...

Although air conditioning units are generally subdivided into a number of categories, including window, split and whole house/building units, they still work the same, with the compressor, condenser ...

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Homeowners insurance only covers damage to an air-conditioning unit as a result of a covered peril (hazard) listed in your policy. Depending on the type of unit, AC is either part of your home's ...

Indoor air conditioning is one of the best ways to beat the summer heat. For many, the convenience of central air remains out of reach, which leaves the AC window unit as the next best thing. Today's ...

As is the case for many people, my home cannot be retrofitted with central air. My 100-plus-year-old Brooklyn apartment, which features prominently in my seven years of air quality reporting for WIRED ...

This spring, I decided enough was enough. It was time to get a grown-up air conditioner that wouldn’t wake me (and all my neighbors) up every time it hummed to life. So I did what any Brooklynite who ...