Today's Picture: 065

[akujunkan]

Is of:


my air conditioner. This tiny little machine, jammed as you can see into the corner of my rectangle, is what I am supposed to use to heat and cool the entire apartment. As might be surmised from its position at the uppermost corner across from the closet, it performs neither of these duties admirably.

Its lack of effectiveness is compounded by the fact that there is no door between the bedroom and kitchen area, which means that even if I run it constantly (read: run up INSANE electricity bills) only the inch of atmosphere below the ceiling gets heated/chilled before said heat/coolness is sucked out through the drafty front door. So basically, I don't use it, which is why it's unplugged. My kotatsu got me through the winter; it remains to be seen what will get me through the summer.



That will be all.

Comments

[theosakakoneko.livejournal.com]

How big is your apartment??? hahaha

No door between you and the kitchen?

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

It's about 12帖 including the kitchen area, bathroom, and storage space. The living area itself is 6帖, which wouldn't make it impossible to heat were there some way to keep the heat *in.*

[theosakakoneko.livejournal.com]

Oh suck! My first place was 14.5 and yeah, I could only heat/cool that place by keeping the sliding doors all closed - it was divided into 3 rooms (2dk). My second place was a 1 room - but it was 10 mat. Actually, I didn't do so badly in there..wonder why. But yeah, definitely easier to cool than heat.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Luckily(?) my place is drafty enough that I'm hoping I won't need to run the aircon too much during summer.

Ironically, my first three apartments in Japan were all 2dks...and much easier to heat/cool than this one.