What a clever idea !

Very nice!

^ i seen that pic as well Jamie!..very neat play house for kids.

I will def do something similar for my "future" daughter….now im off to find my "future" wife lol

Just watch you don't kill your air flow. Drops efficiency bigtime.

Heat is shed via a heat exchanger (same as a radiator). Just like your car if you block airflow through or to your radiator your car will run hotter. In terms of AC's that substantially drops the efficiency. It can take longer to pull down internal temps or your unit simply runs longer to achieve the same result.

Most external units are poorly positioned. More often for convenience, cosmetics, cost etc rather than efficiency.

You can run a fine hose with a mister tip to help improve heat transfer (water is 25X more efficient than air) in very hot conditions. Set up correctly the mister delivers enough fine water particles into the air steam to evaporate off without the problem of water pooling.

Human body works exactly the same way. The evaporation of perspiration is the heat exchange mechanism. If perspiration can't evaporate (high humidity) your at risk of over heating. Prepubescent children have poorly developed cooling systems (low ratio of sweet glands compared to adult ). A child who is sweating in a hot environment is probably at their cooling limit and near to heat exhaustion. Kids left in a hot car will struggle to survive past 10 minutes.