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non standard AC install using a hallway

Give the unit a slight tilt toward the hall. Maybe 1/16 inch per foot. Keep two buckets handy.

If the humidity gets high enough that the water does not get evaporated from the hallway side, the unit will drip. Catch the drips with a bucket. Alternate buckets when it is time to empty a bucket.

reply to norbert26
Figure out a way to vent the hallway at least a little bit. My mother had an ac she put through a window from the living room to the porch. The ac died and needed to be replaced regularly. But the porch, eventually a couple of the windows cracked from the really high heat created in the porch from the ac. She eventually opened the windows in the porch about 2 inches each. Not that much, but the ac would last longer and could cool. That much heat for the ac to live in doesn't make for good cooling either.
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The two small window A/Cs (10 EER, roughly 13 years ago) that I have had have produced plenty of condensate. Both had a tubing connection on the drip tray. I used appropriate diameter vinyl tubing to move the condensate away to a place where it wouldn't drip on stuff.

You could connect tubing to a condensate pump and then run another line out of the pump to a plumbed drain or outside. That might be better than making sure somebody empties the bucket regularly.

As already mentioned, if the hallway is not ventilated, you will save money by making some provision for exhausting air.
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reply to norbert26
New or old, ton for ton they will produce the same amount of condensate, given the same heat/humidity load. It is basic science. If the room you are cooling gets humid, you will need a good plan for the condensate. A pan will probably not work. A few good sized buckets will give you some time between emptying them. Another option is to install an inexpensive condensate pump system. »www.amazon.com/Little-Giant-VCMA···ate+pump

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New or not the AC is going to drip....A LOT! Its New England! Also,youre probably going to have a mildew problem in the hallway. Hot damp air = mildew.

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venting the hall space is not an issue. there is a window and a window fan can be put there to exhaust the heat / help vent the hall. On the condensate i am liking the idea of a tube to drain the condensate to someplace convenient even by gravity feed (lower then the unit). next time i am at the office i need to look at the window AC unit (its a haier) to locate the condensate drain and see if i can add a tube to drain it.

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Some/most window AC's have a slinger that picks up the water condensed off the evaporator coil and throws it against the condenser coil. This helps to cool that coil and, by evaporating some of the water, reduces the amount of water that has to be drained. In any case, you're going to want to find the drain pan overflow to route to your pump or other disposal point.

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The building sounds like a Friend on mine that had a store in. The roof leaked and the landlord didn't care, so everybody got up in the suspended ceiling and troughed the water to the hallway ...... words don't do it justice ... and then there were all the cats .... oh the cats ....