I've been feeling a little more like myself lately and just having fun making these little videos in iMovie for fun while I get some stuff done around the house. I hope you guys enjoy them and don't take them too seriously. I also highly recommend you check out the video I posted on my Twitter feed about "Twitter in real life" It's actually quite funny and I may post it on the channel at some point but it's a little too not work safe to post here 😁

@Ultrajamz

5 жыл бұрын

Barnacules Nerdgasm no need to fix anything in 2020.

@Barnacules

5 жыл бұрын

Which headphones? I'm a bit of a headphone lover myself.

@Barnacules

5 жыл бұрын

You're right, it will mostly fix itself 😁

@awesomearizona-dino

5 жыл бұрын

You ALWAYS crack me up, LOVE IT.

@Barnacules

5 жыл бұрын

@DMoney Industry Sony makes some very respectable cans!

Jerry, these are the kind of videos that i enjoy watching by you. If you can, make them longer. The longer the better. Like the washing machine video. I was laughing so hard i was crying.

You're hilarious, You need your own "This Old House" show! - would watch the hell out of that!

@Barnacules

5 жыл бұрын

You would watch it until it caved in on me hahaha.

What if I am fat and an asshole, will these tips still work?

Regardless of content or topic nice to see you on screen again. Your missed by 99.99999999% of your followers!

@Barnacules

5 жыл бұрын

That's way more than I thought missed me so I'm happy with that results. I won't ask what math drew that conclusion 😁

I decided to use asbestos instead of fibre glass is that ok Jerry?

@Barnacules

5 жыл бұрын

Only if you want your lungs to stop working 😁

if you cant afford central ac but want the convinience of one for cheap, invest in a mini split system, they're not that much more expensive than window ACs and they can also do heat

Hey barnacles i own this very same ac and another "upgrade" i did was get rid of the the flimsy plastic that goes in the window and bought half inch redwood board painted it white and put the matching holes and 3d printed adapters to fit the hoses and saw a better temperatures inside 👍

Funny as hell. You should do more of these.

Oh no, Jerry has TDS.

I can't live without my central AC! The hour it took me to fix it a week ago was like being in hells sauna! Nice to see you feeling better again, keep it up.

🙂 yeah i feel you, here we try not to use AC, instead we have several large industrial size fans to move air thru the house and thru the attic, also shorts and tank tops go a long way as well 😊🏠

So, to get my indoor AC working at peak efficiency, I need to wear a gardening hat and squirt hot sauce on my hose. Got it. Thanks for the tips; my life is better already. For reals. :-p

@Barnacules

5 жыл бұрын

You watched the whole video! Here, have a hug 🤗

Yay I’m glad you’re feeling better and glad to have the funny videos back. Keep up the great work 👍🏼

WOW, i have not seen one of your videos in almost a decade !!

I love that homes in the UK don't need ac units, a lot less messing around :)

@freednighthawk

5 жыл бұрын

I lived in Seattle from 1998-2005 and only had AC in one apartment (flat, as you Brits call them). Seattle and England are very similar, weather wise.

@kylefer

5 жыл бұрын

Last time I was over there it honestly was mindblowing. Here in the states I cannot imagine life without AC, but when I was overseas, no AC but everything felt fine. If the AC goes out over here then your house can get hotter than outside temps depending on insulation, and the humidity makes it so miserable, carpet will get sticky and nasty from it, it is a total must, standard of living to have AC here for sure.

@Altezza1999

2 жыл бұрын

This has aged very well.

@justinbuckley

2 жыл бұрын

@@Altezza1999 Haha that’s amazing I sure wish I had AC now!

Another quality video. Love it

Your Awesome! Thanks for the laugh! Love your videos!

Jerry, I loved this video. Keep it up!

I miss your videos my man. I'm glad you're putting stuff out again, I hope it continues. If there's any way I can help, let me know.

That was pretty funny, thx for the morning laugh

Great to see him making videos like these they're lots of fun

Thanks Barnacules, until you mentioned it I didn't realize my portable ac had a filter and needs to be cleaned.

@Barnacules

5 жыл бұрын

Michael L Saving the world 1 AC at a time

Awesome fun, keep them coming

Great video Jerry! Some nice humor in there

Welcome back Jerry!!! It’s epic to see you posting!

Great seeing you again, Dude.

This totally makes me wanna start doing videos

its good to have you back jerry.

Doooood more of this PLEASE

Nice to see you’re posting again. Best wishes for the future

I wish I could have as much fun doing anything as you did making this video. Thanks Jerry! :)

@Barnacules

5 жыл бұрын

What makes it epic is that I genuinely had fun making this video. The trick to just making videos of stuff you're already doing is that you're already passionate and having a good time. When you have to make videos to meet schedules or go for those dollar bills (we all have to do it eventually) it just doesn't have that same passion.

Loved the video format, as well as the techkeys shirt!

People say Nevada is too hot because it is 110deg in the summer. Nope, Much easier to cool here than somewhere like Washington State or Tennessee. We have well water which means free water. Two swamp coolers, which is basically a fan and a water pump. I can get the house to 72deg on a hot day by blowing air over some wet straw. Very few humid days here, but we do have AC backup for when it does rain a few days out of the year. The best part is that you can use the screen door as an outlet for the air and sit on the porch outside all day if you want. It was crazy moving here after hearing all the myths about the desert. Winters here are comfortable also. I think we had to use heat for one month out of the year.

My man huge fan been watching for years love ur content and videos feel like we can relate keep yourself safe

nice to see you back man and hope your feeling better

I didn't know about the dual hose units!

the wife hairbrush thing is sheer gold

Pro tip : Take a cold shower after fiberglass exposure. Keeps your pores from opening up, and really cuts down on the itching 👍 Source - fiberglass boat builders

This was honestly one of the funniest videos I’ve seen in awhile. Totally unexpected and made a bad day much better. Thank you

I remember watching you get lay-off from Microsoft couple of years ago, knew you were done fine on KZread !! Congrats on almost 1 million sub

@Barnacules

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir! I've taken some breaks here and there but who can stay away from amazing comments like this!

Welcome back, Jerry.

I loled at the bare hands on fiberglass-thing.. =D

This is the first time i have seen one of your videos.......dude you are good...keep it up...

Nice man ;-) don't stop now ! keep it going

this is the best video i've seen in a long time.

Love you Jerry!

This video made my day, I couldn’t stop laughing.

@Howard1939

5 жыл бұрын

Yeh, almost makes me want to convert my Windows 7 PC to a Windows 10, because it may be cooler in the HEAT of Texas summers :-)

Good to see you.

lol this was good, glad youre making videos again

I wanted a window ac so bad because our hvac went out but we can't afford the electric bill for a window ac so I'm just gonna buy a window fan instead. Using a lasko box fan right now, loud as fuck & barely pushes any air.

You are genuinely my favourite person on the internet

whaaaaaat you're back!!!

DO NOT clean your filters with a brush. Those things are directional, which you will notice when you rinse the filter with water, like you should. the water will pass through freely on one side, won't do that on the other. If you use a brush you may damage that layer. Also, spray some antifungal on the evaporator (the cold radiator) about once a year. If you have a split AC (there is a unit on the inside and a unit on the outside connected to it), you should pressure-wash the condenser (the hot radiator in the outside unit) about once a year. Make sure you hold it straight at the fins cause you might bend them if you hold it at an angle.

@DrMacintosh

5 жыл бұрын

He's talking about brushing the radiators, not the filter itself. The radiators are aluminum stacks which won't be seriously damaged by a brush.

@Barnacules

5 жыл бұрын

All of these AC units have flat fits, you're talking about industrial units. I've used this method for years with great success but usually use a wire brush but my wifes brush was funnier so we rolled with it. As for the anti-fungal that is a fantastic idea and I'm totally adopting that, thank you 👍 Also, you can't really pressure wash a condenser in a floor standing AC without dismantling the entire thing and dragging it outside so I setting for compressed air and the brush method, but I do totally use my pressure washer with a low pressure nozzle to clean the window units 🙏

@0oYASASHIIo0

5 жыл бұрын

@@Barnacules Fair warning tho, the antifungal stinks like hell for hours so be prepared to not use the unit for a bit so that it doesn't fan it across the house. BTW. Thanks for responding. This is so cool!

I just subscribed because of this video. This was fantastic 👏

I literally have the EXACT same unit! That was the cheapest one on Amazon. Ironically, it's the same price as our lower btu pinguino unit from Costco that only has 1 hose.

as a fellow fat dude and depresed under medication. its nice to see you back from time to timw. hi from costa rica.

I wish I had known about dual hose ac before I got my portable ac.

The hat... 😂😂😂 Love it.

cool very cool

yeeeei Barnacules is back

Hey im in florida and it’s hitting damn near 100 degrees here on the daily and my AC is broken and has been for over a week now, and on top of that its 88 degrees inside the whole time after putting fans on windows and all that jazz. Now i think that constant heat is making me sick so you know thats just fantastic. Send help plz

@sugarbooty

5 жыл бұрын

Buy his house, it comes with a window unit AND a potted plant

As for window AC units. First off avoid the ones that have the evaporator and condenser coils wrapped in stuff that looks like Christmas tinsel garlands but is actually more like razor wire. There is no way to clean dust and dirt built up out of those effecively. Get the ones that look like mini car radiators. Secondly, you need to clean the built up crap out of the coils at least once a year. The filter on the evaporator side (inside) will keep the worst of of those, but the condenser side is pulling outside air in the sides and blowing it through the coils. You can probably do an ok job with just a hose and pressure nozzle, but I always pull the case off mine and make sure it's totally clear. This also lets me make sure there's nothing in the lower tray that will plug the drain hole for the condensed water. In a lot of cases, when one of these units starts not working well, it's not because the compressor is bad or it's low on freon, it's because there's what looks like a quarter inch of felt blocking air from getting through the condenser coils.

Do a video on converting a single hose to dual hose, measure the difference etc. Would make a cool video, using tje 3d printer to make ducts, etc.

How is it possible that you don't have central HVAC? Is your house built in 18 century?

@KevlarCondom

5 жыл бұрын

Seattle didn't need it until 2012. But this summer is also nice and cool so far.

@TexMex421

5 жыл бұрын

He probably has central heat.

Portables suck only the dual hose ones are good. Nothing like a window ac

Wait is it 1st of April all ready

You look like a Canadian Mountie with that hat and red t-shirt Jerry. Just an observation. Welcome back to YT

I haven't laughed this much in months lol

Hey Jerry. One thing you didnt mention was noise. Just how loud is that portable unit? I was seriously thinking of getting one until my research brought up the noise issue. My main concern is that I'm thinking of doing YT content so I'm concerned about noise. My HOA doesn't allow for outside window units. We have central air but my game room gets warm compared to the rest of the house so that's why I been looking into a portable a/c unit to help cool it down. I live in Florida btw.

@peterpepo9232

5 жыл бұрын

Loud af. At least my single hose unit.

@TexMex421

5 жыл бұрын

Consider a mini-split.

@Skott62

5 жыл бұрын

@@TexMex421 Yeah I been looking into that as well.

You can buy insulated hose for portable air conditioners on Amazon. My house don't have sash windows like yours though. The top half of my windows swing outwards so a window AC is out of the question. I have a single hose ac and it does radiate the heat back into the room. I bought a silver foil hose for it which doesn't get as hot as the hose that came with it but I'm going to buy some insulated hose instead. I am venting the hot air out a hole in the wall in the next room (There's no hallway separating the room) and the hose is 15 foot long so wrapping it is not an option.

@Steve30x

5 жыл бұрын

@MEGA NZ I bought it on amazon.

HILARIOUS :D

Can I use the heating airduct for a portable ac?

@Barnacules

5 жыл бұрын

As long as it's the correct diameter, yes.

@GrimReaper4383

5 жыл бұрын

Thx for the reply.

A 2nd mortgage will provide you the funds you need for central A/C.

@ImpiantoFacile

5 жыл бұрын

I have a small house, but around 5K did it for me. Certainly not cheap, but not outrageously expensive.

@adventureoflinkmk2

5 жыл бұрын

@@ImpiantoFacile seems about right. I was given a similar estimate for my dads house

@Barnacules

5 жыл бұрын

Nah, I want to own this place faster.

Yay were large and in charge... Of the AC unit!

What happened with the keto diet?

@84CORVETTEBILL

5 жыл бұрын

_________ it’s all a scam bro. I know him...it’s all a joke.

@Deses

5 жыл бұрын

He is NEVER gonna lose that weight. Never.

Bought single hose couple years ago, without knowing much about mobile ac. Top trick: toss it in the trash.

@no_tread_

5 жыл бұрын

That or Mod it... I don't get why those were even a thing.

@lubomirbrousek194

5 жыл бұрын

Why is the single hose so bad? I never used one, just curious

@peterpepo9232

5 жыл бұрын

@@lubomirbrousek194 the reason they're bad is, that you use room air to cool down the radiator (hot part of the ac), what means you are dumping air which already has been cooled down out of window, sucking new hot air from outside. On dual hose, you suck air via one hose, cool off radiator and send it out using another one - thus the room is isolated from the outside world.

@lubomirbrousek194

5 жыл бұрын

@@peterpepo9232 Oh, thank you. I never thought about that

LMFAO!! this is quality gold

thank you Jerry, make me laugh

....what about the condensation?

@daviddavids2884

5 жыл бұрын

what about it. or was this a rhetorical question. you DEAL with it. jeeez

@AvidSurvivalist

5 жыл бұрын

A decent model will spray it into the condenser which will evaporate it and send it out the hot hose. Others just have a tank you empty.

2/10 No batknife

@Barnacules

5 жыл бұрын

Shit, I knew I forgot something!

Haha this is pretty funny actually.

some info. some people think it is impossible or impractical to put a window unit in a side-sliding window. it's NOT. you just need to figure out what baffles are needed; and Make 'em from cardboard or thin plywd. if it is not permitted or practical to put it in the window, put it on a stand, inside, aligned with a window. make necessary duct/baffles (cardboard, again) to mate-up with the window. and take steps to deal with the condensation. i did it this way, for several years, when living in an apartment. obviously, home security is a factor, in the implementation of these ideas. cheers googletranslate

My dumbass got the single hose model. I wonder if there's a way to convert it into the two hose model. I took the back off of mine and the chassis is made like the two hose models. It has the cutout for another hose inside but the back cover just has the vent on it.

@AvidSurvivalist

5 жыл бұрын

@Lassi Kinnunen It's going to have to be a very wide hose... The vent is as big as the unit is wide.

1:11 that part made me laugh, so glad too see this in my feed

@Barnacules

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Steve!

More videos plz!😉

we missed you

Outside air intake isn't bad. You get fresh air mixed in, but if you want it cooler, I'd recommend you let the intake suck air from inside the conditioned space. preferably from as high as possible.

@Barnacules

5 жыл бұрын

Actually, the outside air coming in goes through a sealed compartment and never actually goes into the house. Also, the units with a single hose that take air from inside the house create a negative pressure which pulls in equal amounts of warm air from outside through cracks all over in your house. Check out my video description, it's almost hilarious that companies still sell the single hose design but people like them because of how much easier they are to position with a single hose and it simplifies the cost in building them so they are cheaper. But the duel hose design is always best, I did quite a bit of research on this one because I was curious after owning so many single hose designs that didn't work nearly as well and sucked way more power for the same BTU output.

@full95one

5 жыл бұрын

@@Barnacules ah. I see, it's for the condensor. I thought it was for the evaporator. That's why I said what I said. Cooling 90° plus air is not as effective as cooling the air in your home is what I was getting at

@Barnacules

5 жыл бұрын

@@full95one That makes perfect sense, luckily the air that is being pulled in from outside will tend to have a bit of a heat sink effect with the cooler inside of the case transferring some of the heat but I bet it's a neutral gain overall when you factor in the whole system.

Hey twig person here gets hot real fast

@Barnacules

5 жыл бұрын

Do they though, really? 😁

Does no one in the states use wall mount split AC ?!

@ElGeFe

5 жыл бұрын

Yes. But like he said, window shakers and portables are cheaper. New houses just get central HVAC (at least in Florida, I can't imagine living without central HVAC down here).

@shanester366

5 жыл бұрын

yea for some reason in the states people love central HVAC, I have central and am planning on putting a wall mounted split unit in one of the rooms as central is just worthless when it comes to trying to keep a single room cool

@Jacarroll417

5 жыл бұрын

They are not as common. Either you use central air or Window/Portable AC's. In the case of my home we have 3 Window units and 1 Portable unit.

2:12 fork it ... the only one with two hoses that is available (in general*) in my country costs 1500€ (~$1683). I found a few window units ... which are a huge pain in the butt to mount (no sliding windows in my corner of Europe, so the windows either open like a door would, or like a basement window [but not as far]... or both depending on which way you turn the handle) since it is not only near impossible to get the window tight again while it is in, but also you have to remove it ... especially if you live ground level like me ... every night, every time weather gets bad, and even every time you leave the house. *= I don't mean that others are there but not now cause sold out cause summer ... no even in winter there would be no other.

@Barnacules

5 жыл бұрын

$1600 for a twin hose unit? That is highway robbery! Dude, just buy a single hose unit and cut a big hole in the front and glue on an intake hose and chuck it out the window. I don't think it's that simple but still, that is disgustingly expensive!

@MrMegaPussyPlayer

5 жыл бұрын

@@Barnacules Yea ... highway robbery ... you took my exact words. Even the window units (which are way more efficient than the single hose ones*) ... even those start here at €700 (~$785). We aren't land that traditionally uses ACs, and since the last (and this year as well) the vaporization unit scam is big. So people, who don't understand, will buy those cause they are "only" 100€*² instead of a one hose one for 400€ ... so the prices for real AC units won't come down. And I can't turn on anything ... luckily temperatures are down to 20°C (68F) right now. Last week we had excess of 40°C (104F) ... all temperatures measured in the shadow. The only device I turned on in that time was a 0.25 W LED flashlight. Everythign else was too much waste heat. *=The single hose ones pull tons of hot outside air into the room *²= which they still could get cheaper if they knew / be smart enough ... and put a wet towel in front of a fan.

Youre funny dude. Super sub.

Miss you jerry come back to you tube

I like how you took a new spin to your videos. Feels fresh!

take fiber glass and just attach a laser and boom fiber optics

@kylefer

5 жыл бұрын

LOL as a former fiber optics tech this made me laugh hard, thank you.

Thanks for the tips, I'm running 3 window units right now but i've been thinking about picking up a couple of freestanding units for downstairs as well... I've noticed that most of the ac units you can buy these days only have the one hose though, which totally sucks... especially when you're trying to save a few bucks by picking up a used one. also I found that they eat power like nobody's business... even if i could afford the power bill, most of these use over 1200w which means you need a dedicated circuit for them which is pretty hard to come by in my house.

@Barnacules

5 жыл бұрын

You're absolutely right, the single hose units are the worst offenders by far because they are pulling air from inside of the house creating a negative pressure which works the fan harder and the compressor harder, etc. It's just a terrible design and if your house is super leaky they will cool one room better but heat up all the outside rooms in the process. The duel hose is the only way to go but not many of the companies make them because they are more expensive since they need a 2nd sealed system instead of just one fan blowing through a big condenser and shoved outside.

Lol this is such a demonetization troll I love it

Bro this was funny, do more of these videos lol

No central AC? Try living in Mississippi, AKA Satan's armpit.

@thebossofbox

5 жыл бұрын

better try hell in Norway

@UaeDelta

5 жыл бұрын

LOL just open your window in Dubai, fresh sauna with tan.

This is good stuff!