Anyone else getting the heat wave? I installed the window AC into my 72-square-foot room yesterday and it takes less than a minute for the room to cool down. However, the ceiling is about 13 feet high and I have a loft bed that’s about 6 feet off the ground. When I climb up into the bed, it’s as hot as if there was no AC. It’s too hot for me, so is there anything I can do to get the cool air below to reach the loft bed height? My current solution is bringing the mattress to the ground, but I don’t want to keep doing this.

The best representation of where my bed is in comparison to the window is through this picture. The AC unit is on the bottom of the window and there’s about 3 feet between the window and the bed. The loft bed is 6 feet off of the ground and the AC is just less than 3 feet off the ground.

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