We got our second air-conditioner (they call them air con here) installed late last week. We had one in the bedroom, which made for good sleeping, but the livingroom and kitchen gets pretty intolerable in the summer heat, especially if there’s any cooking going on. MyeongHee bought a small split unit a few weeks ago when it started to get hot and they just recently were able to schedule delivery and installation.

A split unit is one with the fan, controls and vents on the inside while the compressor and heat exchangers are somewhere else, usually on the balcony. Below is the wall unit, mounted just above the door to the bedroom.

The wall unit has to have a couple of hoses and a cable go to the outside compressor unit. Another hose from it is the condensation line which drips any water that forms. They ran the cold/return air hoses and control cable across the kitchen wall and over the cabinets to the back balcony.Clunky, but not too terrible. Yet.

I figured they would drill a hole and run the lines through the wall to the outside patio. Nope. That’s too hard. Instead, they went in behind the cabinet and ripped up the stove vent and stuffed it into that. Now the hoses come out nice and neat on the outside, but I need to wrap and reinsulate around the stove vent/aircon hoses. Come winter, that’s going to be a helluva draft. They boogered that up real well.

The condensation line is another story. Rather than properly plumb that line (like I really expected more at this point?) they slapped on some flex hose, dangled it behind the fridge and drilled a small hole in the door.Then they inserted a small bit of copper tubing through the door. Not sure what will happen to the water that pools around the cooper tubing, but I’m sure that electrical tape is waterproof, too. Uh huh.

Then to make it “official” they put more electrical tape around the flex hose and copper tubing. Another lame wrap job on the outside to snake more flex hose towards the drain and they’re done.

This one on the outside of the door is a real bang-up job. I’m sure that tape will last a lifetime. I guess I forgot to ask them what the warranty was on the install job.

Not surprisingly, this isn’t very different from the way they build their hoses here. An American inspector would have a field day with Korean contractors.

Screw it. It’s cool in the house now.