LG Electronics - 10,000 BTU (SACC) / 14,000 BTU (ASHRAE) DUAL Inverter Smart Wi-Fi Portable Air Conditioner (LP1419IVSM)

Second both these ... among the quietest Midea (42 dB) and LG Dual (44 dB) - they are also pretty powerful. More quiet options here.... [https://www.soundproofgenius.com/quietest-portable-aircon-6-of-the-best/](https://www.soundproofgenius.com/quietest-portable-aircon-6-of-the-best/)

I'll also second the LG Dual inverter, with black and decker models a close second (they are not inverter though).

if you don't mind the price, search the LG 14,000 BTU portable AC. I've had two, and both were great. I mean, great. My apartment has a condition where it stores all of the city's hot air, and internally reaches 97 degrees come august/september. This unit churns out a cool room in an hour or 2 starting with that high temp, and my 20 ft ceilings. If you have a better starting place than that, chances are it will turn any room you have into an icebox.

>They tend to be between 35C to 40C here, even getting it down to 30C would be a massive improvement. Can portable air conditioners do that? That's a hard question to answer. Portable AC's in North America are limited to ~10,000 BTU DOE/SACC by the standard 120V 12A (80% utilization of a 15A circuit) electrical circuit that can feed them. The factors that affect how much they can cool your room depend on: - Room size - Room Insulation - Room solar heat gain (IE how much sun is blasting into the room and heating it up). If you have a dark exterior house colour your solar heat gain will be far greater as well. - Heat producing appliances/electronics within room. Before I went to a central ducted heat pump I used a single hose portable AC (LG 10,000 DOE/SACC). It was enough to cool my 14'x14' south facing living room to ~24-25C while it was 30 outside, but it was pretty much running constantly at full speed to get there, and very noisy. It had hardly any effect on the rest of the house.

Home Depot doesn’t say it outright on their website but I’ve asked their customer service guys about this exact issue. They say that they WILL SHIP TO STORE and you can just pick it up. No charge. This was maybe a year ago so maybe double check but I was able to order an LG dual inverter AC from them for the whole ship to store and pick up at the store.

Your unit bpt08hwtb is really a 5000btu ac. Although it does put out maximum 8000btu the heat it generates and the inefficient single hose make it equivalent to a 5000 Btu window unit. You should get an inverter unit like the lg 1419ivsm which is 14,000 Btu ashrae and equivalent to a 10,000 Btu window unit.

The LG dual inverter portable is probably the best single hose ac you're going to get.

LG LP1419IVSM, it's the most quiet unit you can get short of just going "... yeah I should just get a mini-split". Which you should because heat pumps are so much better than a portable AC, but sometimes you don't have that option (because laws or because you're renting) and then this is by far the best unit you can get if you want to be in the same room.