LG 5,000 BTU Window Air Conditioner, 115V, AC Window Unit Cools 150 Sq.Ft. (10' x 15' Room Size), Perfect for Bedrooms, Quiet AC with 2 Cooling & Fan Speeds, 2-Way Air Deflection, and Washable Filter

Just installed this air conditioner. So far, it's working great. I had to get this model because it required the least window height clearance of any quality conditioner that I can find. My older home has storm windows with high base frames, which are a couple of inches higher than the interior window sill. As a result, I had to raise the height of the interior window sill (3 boards nailed together) nearly 3 inches so that the air conditioner could fit over the storm window base frame. This doesn't leave much clearance room with a double-hung window, and this unit fit...just barely. A few notes: 1. The adhesive strip which applied to the bottom edge of the window is very sticky and very fragile. If you get any bit of it stuck on a fingertip, that part will break off from the main strip. 2. The manual has not been updated to match all features of the unit; e.g., it says that the remote control requires one battery. It requires two. But the main installation instructions of the manual still apply. 3. Make sure that the screws for the side panels are applied so that they're invisible from the inside. 4. The unit no longer comes with a drain . Apparently, newer air conditioner models have dropped this "feature." I'm not worried about this because I live in the relatively non-humid west coast. But if you live in a high-humidity area, you should be sure that the unit tips backward a bit towards the outside so that any excess condensation can drip out the back. 5. The remote control is basic. It would be nicer if it would provide a visual indication of temperature setting, fan setting, etc. 6. My window is about 40 inches wide, which exceeds the 35" expansion of the side panels. I covered the open spaces on each end with a piece of 1" thick Owens-Corning foamular (rigid foam insulation). In fact I filled the entire space between the window frame edge and the air conditioning unit (which completely covers the side panels). Cut the foamular a tiny bit bigger, and you can "force" the foam piece into the space with a little pressure; the foam will thus stay firmly in place and effectively block all the open spaces. If you don't want to buy an entire 4'x8' sheet of the foam, Home Depot sells a 2'x2' square for about $6. If you still have tiny open cracks around the foam, a little piece of masking tape will cover any gaps. 7. With the unit in place, my open lower window almost touches the top of the window frame. This means that there is insufficient room to install the included L-bracket as an added protection to prevent the window from being opened further from the outside (e.g., by an intruder). I simply drilled a hole completely through the front window frame and halfway through the back window frame, and then I pushed a big nail into the hole to prevent movement of the window. 8. Some reviews complained that the unit is too noisy. I, however, feel that it's as quiet as a window unit can possibly be. The compressor makes MUCH less noise than my 14,000 BTU Whynter portable air conditioner, which Good Housekeeping ranked in 2018 as quieter than other units on the market. 9. Outside sounds are now more noticeable when the conditioner is not running. This is unavoidable given since I can no longer close the inside window and the outer storm window. If the sounds of crickets bothers you at night, you're probably out of luck.

ADDED PIX OF WHITE/BLUE FILTER PERFORMANCE. As you can clearly see, the filter did keep the white mesh factory filter and the evaporator coils SPOTLESSLY CLEAN.. The filter was changed after about 3 months.. EDIT: ADDED ENERGY COSTS FROM TAPO UNITS.. REVISED ENERGY COST FOR JULY = $66.67 FOR HOME AIR CONDITIONING. IMPORTANT: After you receive your AC unit, or ANY refrigeration appliance, it is really mandatory to let the unit sit-UPRIGHT, for at least 6-8 hours, preferably overnight, to permit the Freon and oil in the system to settle “down” in the unit BEFORE you turn it on…. During shipping you do NOT know if the unit was transported on its side, or even upside down, otherwise, you WILL risk damaging the compressor…. My first purchase of the LG LW6017R 6000 BTU unit was in June of 2000 which replaced a 17 YO Kelvinator 5000 BTU unit. I installed this in my kitchen window primarily to use as backup air conditioning when a Florida hurricane takes out the power. The 6000 BTU size is easily powered by my iGEN2500 inverter generator which also keeps the refrigerator, (beer), cold when the power dies. Recently, my home central AC died and since my air handler is in the attic – builder’s dumb design – I did not want to put good money after bad and spend THOUSANDS with replacing the AC system with the air handler in the attic. I just bought and installed two additional 6000 BTU units; one in my bedroom and the other in the living room. My bedroom window opening was 46 inches wide and the supplied “accordion” side panels would not extend wide enough to block the sides of the AC unit. For the living room window, I “could” have used the accordion panels, but, I wanted to make the installation more “permanent” and I cut pieces of wood for the side panels for both the bedroom and living room installs with pictures showing the final installation. As the units have a cheap, plastic air filter, I also added cut pieces of the white/blue filter material, WHITE SIDE OUT - air input, (ASIN B0DHNBGSXV), and with using the hook side of adhesive Velcro strips, I was able to use this white/blue filter material to ensure a proper air filtration that will keep the evaporator coils clean. See pix. The bedroom and kitchen units provide COLD air with the units cycling during the day. The thermocouple meter shows a 45.1 degree output air temp with a 28.1 degree temperature differential, which is GREAT. The living room unit cools a larger area and with recent 97 degree Florida HEAT, this unit’s compressor runs most of the day. In 95-97 degree heat, my three day electric cost @ $0.14/KWH, for ALL THREE UNITS, was only ~$6.00 or about $2.00 per day, (BR=$0.42/DAY, KIT=$0.45/DAY, and LR=$1.13/DAY)…. You can’t beat that with a stick ;-) As air conditioning is really mandatory in Florida, I am happy as a cool clam without breaking the bank. The remotes are IR which lets you remotely adjust settings individually where an RF remote would definitely cause problems in adjusting an individual unit’s settings. Overall, with the features and performance of these LG units, I can totally recommend these units for keeping your cool for minimal cost….

I bought 3 of the LG 8000s total, as well as two very expensive Friedrich Kuhl heat pumps to replace a large Lennox Central Heat Pump that failed after 25 years of service... so here is a very long winded review, covering all three of those pretty much. I'll put the info about the LG first for those of you who want only the bare bones of the story, then follow up with the entire documentary. :) FIRST POINT: The LG units are easy to install, even though they do REQUIRE an outside support, bought or made. They are inexpensive to buy at certain times of the year, but my Friedrich units EACH cost 5 times as much or more! I am much happier with the LG than the expensive Friedrich so far, even though I have to use space heaters in those rooms in wintertime. My only regret is that I did not get LG units that included a heat panel to help heat the larger rooms. I am considering when the Friedrich units bite the dust, replacing them with 10K 230V LG units with heat panels for the larger rooms. The 115V heat panels can't heat any better than a cheap space heater and at 230V you can heat twice the area. MORE EFFICENT AND LESS ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN: Uses R-32 coolant which I understand to be less threatening and more efficient. Additionally it has a rotary compressor which is quieter and and more economical to operate. Various coolants get different opinions expressed depending on what article you read, so I can't verify this information. LESS NOISE: The LG is quieter overall. The big Friedrichs do have quiet fans on LOW and will blow so hard on HIGH that you will think you have a commercial pedestal fan blowing on you. But the Friedrich compressors are LOUD and make strange sounds sometimes... even in the middle of the night they rattle and shut down with a shocking clunk sometimes, and occasionally make a noise like someone sneezing loudly and a scary HISS when the compressor cuts off. The LG just comes on and goes off, no big deal. I don't know much about the rotary compressor, but you can't even hear it go on and off unless you have the fan on low speed. I'm sure that if you went to the same trouble I did to mount it in a window or through the wall, it would be almost as quiet as a mini-split unit. COOLS WELL, EFFICIENTLY: Measuring my LG in comparison to my 10,000 BTU 115V smaller Friedrich, it burns half the electricity to cool the same area. I know because I had to use one of the LG units in there for a month while I was battling Friedrich service centers to fix that unit. I measured their power usage under multiple conditions with my Kill-A-Watt power tester. Yes the LG does come on a little more often to do the job, but still burns less power in a week overall. LG IS NOT AS HEAVY DUTY: But it is also not as heavy in weight... much easier to put in and take out. Some of the knobs and switches and deflectors are a little flimsy, but if you treat them with respect, you shouldn't have problems... time will confirm that, I'm sure. But the one major point here is that the chassis is not as strong and without the outside support bracket (or the cheap-skate version in my photo) there have been reports of the chassis warping to allow fans to rub and make a lot of noise. Plan for that and you'll be satisfied. FANS ARE NOT AS POWERFUL: The LG blows about as much in high speed as the Friedrich blows in medium speed. I don't use the high speed in the bedrooms of course, but if you are trying to cool two rooms with a single unit, you might wish you had more powerful blowers. FAR LESS COMPLICATED: The Friedrich Kuhl models have very complex controls, especially on the remote. You can program them to do all sorts of schedules to turn them on and off, but all of that proved silly to me. Easier to just set the LG and forget it. All of the various modes of the Friedrich end up with you dinking around with the controls far more than the LG units. Plus both of my Friedrichs have trouble maintaining the set temperature, not because of capacity, but because the sensors don't work properly and I have to compensate by several degrees, which is even more trouble due to the heating function. WAY LESS EXPENSIVE TO BUY: The Friedrich units were about 5 times the price of the LG units. Do I expect them to last 5 times as long? In a word NO. Also to consider is that the Friedrichs each weigh 110 pounds, and that will kill you when you have to remove it to take it for service. MY DIY SUPPORT: You can buy the LG outside supports and they are not that expensive, or you can use the less attractive DIY system in my photo. Two scraps of fiber cement plank and a length of 2X4 and you can fine-tune the slant of the unit by simply tilting the 2X4 slightly with a level on top of the unit. MY DETAILED STORY: We have had a Lennox central heatpump for the past 25 years which lost it's ability to heat a few years ago and then the cooling function died at the end of last summer. That was a great heat pump, obviously, and though it lasted a very long time, it was not all that efficient due primarily to the big lie that's told by the central system sellers who always fail to mention that you have to cool/heat the whole house in order to make the system work properly. Central systems require the air to flow as designed in EVERY room for the system to work properly, and frankly, not many people need to cool the whole house 24/7. For just two people, unless we have guests, three of our bedrooms are empty every day, entered only very occasionally to clean up or get something. The doors are always closed. Sadly, if you close off the vents in those rooms, it affects the efficiency and longevity of the overall unit. When the Lennox died, I had estimators come and even with the house already having central ducting, the estimates ranged from $6500 to double that, and not one of those guys offered anything near the quality of the Lennox unit. I first thought I'd like to get the modern “mini-split” units, but this turned out not to be practical either from an installation standpoint or for overall cost of installation. The price for that turned out to be more than for a new central system, but each of the estimators declined because some of the rooms had no good place outside to put the compressor. So I started looking at window or through the wall units. But in considering going to window units (or through the wall), there are many points to think about: 1. They are more noisy. The compressor is right there with the blowing portion, so you will hear that compressor each time it comes on. Larger units make more noise, and that's just logical. 2. Large units are expensive and heavy, and if you need warranty service or repairs later, some service companies will NOT come to your house to even look at them... you'll have to take the unit out and haul it to the repair shop. This could be a good thing or a bad thing... read on please. 3. Smaller units are less expensive, lighter, easier to install and replace. 4. By installing individual units in each room, you get full control over the temperature in each room, rather than having to cool rooms that are never used. Your guests will have control over their own bedroom, which they will appreciate if they like a warm room and you like a cool room or vice versa. Of course this also means you can turn any of the units off to save electricity. 5. Last but a very important point is, when a central a/c system breaks, the whole house is broken. With a window unit, you only have one room in trouble, and you don't have to wait days or weeks to get someone to come and look at it, order parts, then come back to fix it... you just pull it out of the window and take it to the repair shop, or pop in another unit, either new or borrowed from another room. In my experience, having the repairman come to the house multiple times to fix our big Lennox, it would have actually been cheaper to buy a new window unit than the high cost for repairs. So, I did decide to get a mix of window and through the wall units and install them myself. The cost of the units totaled out to about the same as the lowest bid for a central unit UNinstalled, but that brand had so many bad reviews I just couldn't consider buying it. I decided to buy two very high priced Heat Pumps to take care of the areas we use every day and then 3 of these LG 8000 gems to do the seldom used bedrooms. I now wish I'd bought the LG units for the whole house. It would have been cheaper initially and would probably have worked better. I bought Friedrich Kuhl heat pumps at a total cost of about $2500 and installed them myself. They are VERY loud, but also very efficient... but there were problems. Each of them weighed twice as much as the LG units, so it was horrible trying to put them into the places (both required windows to be removed and bolstered to handle the weight, which was too much for the window to support on its own). Plus of course one of them required wiring for 220 volts. One of the Friedrich units did not work properly at first and I had to pull it back out of the wall and haul it 65 miles to get “service” because they “don't allow their boys to take them out of the wall”. So this 76 year old man and his hundred pound wife had to do it for them. I took it to the warranty repair place and had to leave it because they didn't have time to look at it in front of me. I waited nearly a week and called them back and was told there is nothing wrong with the unit (which cooled like a Texas Norther, but did not stop cooling... would freeze you out). I told them I would come and show them the problem, but when I got there, they'd all taken the afternoon off, and the receptionist wanted to CHARGE ME MONEY for testing the “good” unit. In all that brand new unit took a month to get going, many phone calls and emails, trips to two different cities. So no, I will never again buy a central unit OR a big window unit. The little LG 8000 is the perfect a/c because it is light enough for us to lift it and if I have trouble I can't fix, only one room is out of service, and I can actually swap units with another room if important. In fact I can toss the thing in the dump and buy another one cheaper than some of the repairs I've had on big units. CONCLUSION: It almost brings tears to my eyes thinking about my father so many years ago deciding he had to air condition this 100+ year old farm house. He had to have the venting put into the attic, additional wiring installed, and then picked the very best central unit he could find, which involved a large loan to be paid out of his Social Security and small pension... resulting in a lean on the house title. He could have installed window air conditioners with considerably less expense and only used many of the units when there were guests present, as I do. The extra safety factor of having many small units (all the same) is a huge relief, because when one goes down, you just borrow a unit from one of the spare rooms until the broken unit is repaired or replaced. Obviously I fully recommend the LG, but do make sure you buy or make a support for the outside. ABOUT THE PHOTOS: These were taken late last summer (2016) while I had it installed in the livingroom for a month. It was pretty much just stuck in that window while the big Friedrich was having warranty issues.

I am a little over a week in to this unit and can't find a single negative thing to say about it Installation was not too difficult because I had a friend help me do the install as it is kind of heavy and bulky, plus I wanted it installed CORRECTLY. I can't get over how quiet this unit is and how well it cooks my retail bait and tackle store. When though it's a smaller, "mom and pop" type place, it cooled the whole shop off to a very comfortable 68 degrees F in about half an hour. The unit completely got rid of 95+% humidity inside the store within 45 minutes and I am very happy with it's ability to keep the place cool, dry, and shit if when it reaches the temp the unit is set at. Overall, I give it 5 stars. I took into account the cost, ease of install, and functionality. It checks every box I listed before making a decision on purchase. Other reviews were very good so I decided to retire my barely functioning 6k but Haier unit and I could not be happier. I will add to this review in a month and then again in, most likely, October. Which is the end of my season and need for the unit because here in NY. The weather tends to be more comfortable and the unit will not be needed. I will add, if you are on the fence between a unit that has less btu's and this one, go with the higher btu unit. It is definitely worth it and for a free extra dollars, you will not be disappointed! Any questions just ask.

A big hello to all my fellow cool people, or should I say, wanting to be cool? I live in an older house with no central air. Having at least one room that is able to be kept very cold for my huskies is quite important. In the summer they can sleep downstairs in the living room with fans on, the circulation in the house from the fan in the attic keeps it decently cool there. I love to give them COLD temperatures all year round. I, too, enjoy being cool on hotter summer days. I have submitted this item for return the first day I just got it and had family help me install it. Why? This unit is a couple of thousand BTUs higher than a mobile Vremi unit I own [which has lost its efficiency after 1.5-2 years]. It does not even perform as good as that one. That was a shocker. Cold air does not emit from this AC. This was ensuring I had everything set proper. Proper mode, proper vent setting [it can be on or off of course if you want to circulate outside air], and the fact that this cools rooms up to 550 sq ft left me very surprised to see it not work, since the room I put it in is less than 300 sq ft. If I had a king or queen bed in this room, it would be the majority of the room. The air was mildly cool at best coming from the AC. I even took my shirt off and let the air from the AC hit my torso. Not cold. [60 degree setting] I decided to run some experiments. I ran the AC [again, proper mode and settings] from 60 degrees to 80 degrees in variance. There was no change in the temperature of the air coming from the LG AC. There was never a shift in the fan or power of the AC either, unless I changed the fan setting. Only F1 seemed to initiate any kind of substantial shift. By that all I mean is an audible noise. I was in the room with the AC for a couple of hours. It was not cooling the room. [Proper settings, room secure, etc.] I had no choice other than to return it. I even got a prompt saying they would give a partial refund. I would not even keep this AC if they fully refunded me, as it is NOT working. I don't expect an AC to cool a room in 10 seconds flat during warmer summer days, but it needs to move the needle. This has some bad reviews and some good reviews, you're taking your chance if you want to buy it. Maybe you will have better luck. As far as any positives I can say since I don't want to appear to be unreasonable here we go: The remote control works perfectly fine. I like the cosmetics of the AC and the control panel. As far as the noise level, it wasn't unreasonable. I left energy efficiency at 3 stars because I cannot speak to that after only having the AC for a day. If the AC had just worked, it would have been great. I was going to even try to return it for a like item to try another, but Amazon's auto-return instructions told me I could not do that. Anyway, hopefully my review could help sway you one way or another on a potential purchase. Be prepared to have to return it. Edit- Bought a 14,000 BTU GE model AC from a nearby store. Works like a charm. Air was super cool and the low setting was on par with this LG model high setting. Again, I probably got a faulty model, but that’s my experience.

So I had an older ac from walmart maybe circa 2017,that I wasn't aware of you could clean but didn't clean for maybe 8 yrs and at this point it was spitting out mold and leaking water everywhere in the front. I have a small bird now in the same room across from it and worried about the mold in the air so frantically went to Google and saw that any 8,000 btu ac in stores near by were either out of stock or $400 and didn't want to take my chances with a portable one since my floors are uneven. I compared a few and I literally just wanted a bare basic simple ac to use for the summer heat being on the 2nd floor apt. As much as I didn't want to pay this price and amazon is hit or miss and was scared to take my chances it was crunch time and I caved in and got the protection plan aswell. So I ordered it Thursday evening and even with prime it said it would come this Tues. So I didn't anticipate coming home from breakfast today to find it in my breezeway 2 days later and not another 3 days. So first thing I noticed is that it came delivered perfectly fine no visible wear and tear. And yes it Definitely is very heavy I recommend a team lift because I just barely got it up the stairs by myself. But once I opened it it was very very nice again no damage thank goodness and it's so nice and pretty and simple. No extra unnecessary buttons I don't care for the wifi or Alexa connection, just give me on and off. There's alot of directions but I like how it comes with the front mount since I do live on the 2nd floor. I will say though I don't like how the manufacturer designed mounting the side panels. You have to screw in 4 tiny screws through the holes in the panels from the back side and screw them into the ac and using 2 diff types of screw drivers it was a pain but I got them in best I could. Once I turned it on no issues..do the test and reset on the cord. But you just turn it on hit the speed and setting and your good to go!! It's super quiet no rattling nothing. Definitely alot more quiet than the other ac I have of the same size. I didn't end up using the mounts or brackets or extra screws that come with it. But you can if you want. But over all very satisfied!! I do get the sun in so my temp in the apt is 75 when it's set at 70 but once the sun goes down it does get cooler. Obviously this won't freeze your entire apt but it definitely does a great job cooling down the majority of my place/the 2 bigger rooms to where your not cold but I'm comfortable with what I have it set on. I can't lower the temp due to the bird anyways but this definitely does the job for me!! The price sucks but I'm definitely happy.

Have had this unit for a month after the Midea U recall forced a search for a replacement. It is a really good unit and meets my needs in a very hot humid climate for two upstairs rooms with many electronics in the home office/den. It is quite quiet on low and medium fan levels, and somewhat noisy on higher fan speed but have only utilized anything but low after getting the hang of its capabilities. Quick cooling and efficient dehumidification. App interface is good. Recommend this unit and think it will do a great job for you. Installation pretty straight forward and including removal of the old unit this replaced the total time to 'job done' was 1/2 hour about 15 minutes each step. Really like the design and clarity of the instructions. Recommended!

i have a few issues with the quality of the parts of the AC. 1. was unable to remove the bottom part (literally the first part of instructions). so put in AC as is. whatever, that’s honestly what i usually do. however since this was a heavier unit, I wanted to try to be as safe as i could. 2. the accordion like things for the window- such a poor design. so flimsy. and those screws to attach the accordion to the window unit are not aligned, so the bottom part gets dented when the unit is in the window. 3. the front part of the unit, that you attach on- the parts it clipped in to bend easily; so attaching was more difficulty than it needed to. and it still pops out of place on top sometimes (not that the front part totally disconnects from the unit, it’s just something i notice when it was being maneuvered in the window itself)- it’s just flimsy. the original part literally came bent in multiple areas where i had to bend them to be able to fit into place. all that said , my unit works perfect. it cools my apartment down. the air flow is great. i felt it like 10+ feet away. i love the energy control, as ive never had a window unit with that before. so the unit works great myself, the quality and instructions are lacking. i also seemed to notice i think i only got one still support for the inside of the window. so i just did not install the outside support because i was unable to do so. if you are okay with just propping the unit into your window knowing it will be stable, then its a fine air conditioner. but if you dont feel that reassured, then i would get another air conditioner. because the way these screw holes weren’t aligned from the ones i used, the parts easily bending, and just unable to remove that bottom part that’s in the first part of the instructions - it’s not worth it.