Every summer my son complaints about the heat in his room, even though it’s cooled to the same temperature as the rest of the house with the air conditioning from his vents, so last summer we decided to get an AC unit to put in his window.
You see, we don’t have HVAC zone control so simply let him adjust the temperature control within his own room, and this was a better alternative than paying to upgrade our entire HVAC equipment.
And so I installed the AC unit in his window and instructed him about how it worked. There were a couple rules he had to follow to use it, and he agreed to all of them. Rule number one was that the air conditioner was not to be left on when he wasn’t in the room, needlessly running up our electricity bill. Rule number two was that it was never allowed to be set below 68 degrees for a similar reason. Lastly, rule number three was that he was responsible for rinsing the filter out every other week to ensure dirt and grime weren’t clogging it up and ruining the unit. I assumed I would have to get onto him a couple times about following the rules but he surprisingly surpassed my expectations. He remember to turn the air conditioner off when he left his room, he never set the AC’s temperature below 68, and he rinsed the filter out like he was supposed to without being told. I still don’t see why it should have been necessary, his room was cooled down along with the rest of the house with the normal HVAC system, but I’m proud he’s shown such responsibility with it.