Grandpa Al's Tools

Hey, it's an old house without central air. Most of the time that's not a problem - the high ceilings help and the solid brick exterior and plaster walls provide a enough mass that it takes a while to get hot inside. Problem is once it gets hot it stays hot.

We had a window unit in the master bedroom last summer, but the new storm windows we put in last fall have an opening that's a little narrower than the inner sash. And, as it turns out, it's half an inch narrower than the housing of that window air conditioner...

After some searching, I finally found a new AC unit that would fit. Have you ever noticed that the "facets" feature of most websites doesn't let you narrow your search on the thing you're really interested in?

Of course, the bottom edge of the storm window frame is also higher than the sill, so I had to make a shim so that the AC unit would have the proper tilt. And that particular window sill isn't level, so the shim is half an inch thicker on one end. And the sill is bowed up in the middle... :-)

Thanks to Grandpa Al for all the tools that I used to get the shim perfect...