Kenmore 12,000 BTU Room Air Conditioner

It's The GREATEST!!!!

We bought one of these about 6 years ago for our master bedroom, as we have nobody else living in the home. We didn't want to have to continue to cool the whole house with the large A/C unit and this Sear's unit cools our bedroom GREAT!! I just clean the filter each month and have never had any issues with it. We will replace it with the same one when the time comes but it is still working like a charm.

Keep your Cool with this one.

I had a hard time finding an AC unit to fit my sliding window configuration and this one suited my room needs and window size. Having never installed any AC before, I read the instructions a few times and was very confused. Once I started however,it installed fairly easily with a few modifications on my part, mostly regarding the window height and anchoring. I added a few extra screws to secure it and cut a board to fit  the  opening, as the one provided was not large enough.. Once installed it cooled my small house within a few hours on the hottest day of  the year.I didnt have a stroke installing it, kept my cool, and now I'm enjoying a cool, comfortable home.

Kenmore AC Cools my Cottage.

I bough thtis for my small cottage and it works great.  Cools my cottage of about 700 Square feet in about 2 hours.

Great a/c unit for performance, not so much on install....

I had ordered one that was heavily damaged in shipping to my home. I had contacted Sears and was very pleased with the quick response to return that unit and get me another. I had the 2nd/replacement unit shipped to my local sears store so I could inspect prior to picking up...it all was very easy. This unit fit a casement in my living room perfectly, and had a suprise in the box of a window stand. However, the only thing supplied to secure this unit to anything is one 1" tab to be screwed into the stand...I do not trust that is nearly enough for this large and very heavy unit. I found it easier to pull the stops and sash out for installation, made it about a 1/2 hour job on a 90 degree day. The supplied directions were completely useless. This unit cooled my entire living room and even cooled off other areas of the home as well and quicker than I expected. I would definitely recomend it to anyone looking to cool about 600 sq ft without a central air option. It is noisy but is tolerable. We'll see if I still like it when the electric bill comes.

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Good Luck!!!

Kenmore 12K BTU A/C is a great unit!

I purchased this unit for my 76 yr old mother.  What a lifesaver!  Not only does it cool well, but it does so quietly.  The many features are an added bonus.  Everyone who enters her home is knocked out by this A/C and asks where they can buy one.  If I didn't already have central air I'd put in a couple of these units.

kenmore 12000 BTU room AC

I needed AC for the hot summer months don't have the budget for HVAC centralized home heating and cooling, it cools the room well but definitely on the loud side. Hope it'll last for few more summers only time will tell.

Jury is still out...

Ordered in 2010. Installer did not adequately seal the area around the unit. When I called to complain, they asked him and he said something about the old air conditioner and existing wood-neither of which had anything to do with their failure to seal the area around the unit. Four calls to Sears for help, installer refused to call, contact me or fix problem. Bottom line, I had to pay someone else to insulate as it should have been when installed.

One year later unit is making a loud, grinding noise and spitting water back into the room. Called for service, took a week to get an appointment. Service man came out - Naturally, unit working fine when he came. Have to wait another week for an appointment - in 86 degree heat.

Need to keep unit on 64 degrees to keep two adjacent rooms (12x18, 12x13) cool . Takes longer to cool than my old 10K Kenmore with higher utility bills. Get the extended service agreement. 90 day warranty is a joke.

Timer is great. Filter is easy to clean. But, once it gets cool, it stays cool. Serviceman said energy saver is only for use when you are out of the house.

The Kenmore 12K btu window unit has been great in my house.

We bought this unit about a month ago and it was "fairly" easy to install. We had it sent to the sears store and picked it up there. It cools about 1000sq ft of my 2100sq ft house. It comes with a pretty good window support bracket, which we didn't expect. Only downside, is the plastic piece that covers the open window section was not large enough, so my husband went to the local hardware store and purchased some thick plexi glass and cut it to the size we needed. We just ordered another unit to cool the other half of our house! It is loud in our living room, so we have to turn up the volume on our TV, but that's not a deal breaker.

Filled with Black MOLD (Kenmore 12000 BTU AC)

I purchased this model roughly 4 years ago. I keep a very clean apartment and have a housecleaner come in once a week. Recently hired a repairman to clean the Kenmore 12000 BTU AC and when he opened it up it was literally FILLED with black mold. I have never seen anything so utterly disgusting. He said it would cost more to clean it than it would to replace it, that there was a problem with the drainage. Now I know the source of the respiratory and other health problems I have endured for at least a year. Window ACs need to be re-designed to keep out mold -- or to be more easily cleanable by the customer.