Air conditioning motor... inside the apartment?
Dear redditor DIYers,
I've had an idea, and before I share it with the world, I wanted to quietly discuss it among ourselves to check if it's a really stupid one.
In the center of out apartment (apartment block, upper floor), we have created a windowless utility room, where we keep everything loud/annoying (hot water tank, washing machine, dryer, tool storage etc. In one corner of it, there is a column, belonging to the building, which was previously used as a kitchen exhaust. The utility room was carved out of the original kitchen, and it's now separated from it by a plasterboard wall, stuffed with phono-absorbent material. The door to the utility is in the adjacent corridor.
Since the room is quite a bit hotter and the dryer + drying rack creates humidity, we are planning to install an exhaust pipe + extractor fan, venting into the corner column.
I am considering installing a permanent air conditioner, but putting the motor unit on the inside of the utility room and the ventilator unit in our day room/kitchen/living area on the other side of the wall. Would this setup work as I think it would (i.e, motor heat, mostly contained in the utility room, gets vented out through the extractor fan?). Or am I out of my mind for even considering it?
TLDR: Can I install the motor of an air conditioning unit on the inside of my apartment, given my unusual setup
Please note: While "why don't you put your heat exchanger outside the window like a normal person" is a perfectly valid question, the simple answer is that we can't. The building facade is historical, and we cannot install anything on it - not even a tv antenna...