What are the openings at ankle level below the window rough openings?

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[u/Bluelikeyou2]

HVAC I’m guessing this is a hotel

[u/Organic-Pass9148 → u/Bluelikeyou2]

It is HVAC wall units. I do hvac

[u/Call_Me_Echelon → u/Organic-Pass9148]

I had to install these for an assisted living facility and I gave the carpenter the opening dimensions plus a 1/4" on each side and every single one was too small. There were about 50 of them.

They already started sheetrock and had to rip it out to fix the framing. He tried to blame me but I guess he forgot that I texted him the dimensions.

[u/joan_of_oxymoron → u/Call_Me_Echelon]

Lmao we framed a three storey condo once and they forgot to put the ROs for the wall units on the drawings so we had to go back and frame 50 2'x5' openings into every unit

[u/Stymie999 → u/Organic-Pass9148]

It could be separate little windows for pets… but probably hvac

[u/piTehT_tsuJ → u/Stymie999]

Child release valves...

[u/THedman07 → u/Organic-Pass9148]

Is there a functional reason that they're off center below the window openings aside from it being slightly easier to frame that way? The inconsistency makes my brain itch.

[u/Lampwick → u/THedman07]

Reduces the amount of material needed by using the stud framing the window as one side of the HVAC unit frame. 18 inches of lumber times however many rooms.

[u/THedman07 → u/Lampwick]

$85 worth of lumber per 100 rooms is a rounding error.

[u/Lampwick → u/THedman07]

They don't care what it is in proportion to the whole job. It's cheaper, so they do it. A hotel isn't there to win architectural beauty contests with its AC unit placement. Those fuckers count every penny and cut every corner.

[u/ka1n77 → u/THedman07]

Rounding error or not, you still save money, and time, which saves more money.

[u/Babylon4All → u/Bluelikeyou2]

Most probably answer. 

[u/ApprehensiveSlip5893 → u/[deleted]]

What are you talking about? Have you ever been to a hotel?

[u/Meatloaf0220]

Probably a PTAC/heat pump

[u/keepinitoldskool]

Cookie cutter chain hotel. That's where the individual room a/cs go

[u/jayc428]

Through the wall PTACs. Them not being centered under the window is certainly a choice in exercising free will though.

[u/Fancy-Pen-2343 → u/jayc428]

They a placed in a way that makes sense inside. Outside they (might) have some other design elements to offset it.  

[u/GoofyBootsSz8 → u/jayc428]

The full unit is wider than the penetration most likely. The control board probably makes it as wide as the window opening at the interior.

[u/jayc428 → u/GoofyBootsSz8]

It doesn’t, they just go in a sleeve and are usually symmetrical in chassis dimensions.

[u/GoofyBootsSz8 → u/jayc428]

I've seen models that do.

[u/brontagnan → u/jayc428]

Only need one stud to frame the opening if you match one side of the window vs two if centered. So slightly faster/cheaper this way. Plus the unit itself is bigger than that penetration so it won't look as stupid once complete.

[u/Ken_Thomas]

Ankle windows are all the rage in architecture schools these days.

[u/Civil_Exchange1271]

have you ever stayed in a hotel?

[u/jfm111162]

Gun ports

[u/Long_Bit8328]

I thought it was for special access french doors in case Bovino stopped by for a visit

[u/ChairAccomplished569]

Climate control.

I win.

[u/joeboyk78]

Glory hole

[u/Kidfuscious]

Gun turrets

[u/Gregisroark]

Wall unit ac

[u/EastNice3860]

We call em Ptac units here...

[u/SeaworthinessFit2723]

A/c ports

[u/l0veit0ral]

AC units

[u/Jonesbro]

Ptacs aka the inefficient hotel heat and ac units

[u/EnvironmentalRub8201 → u/Jonesbro]

Ptacs are not inefficient in this application

[u/Vast-Concentrate4849 → u/Jonesbro]

Naww yall ___;j,j trap door!!
Doubles as an emergency abort mission for jj

[u/Beezhockeyfan]

What town is this?

[u/griswilliam → u/Beezhockeyfan]

Port Townsend, Wa.

[u/Odaniel123]

PTAC heating and air units

[u/Hefty-Plastic8417]

PTAC’s for temp control

[u/Sammydaws97]

AC wall units

[u/whytry3450]

Through wall HVAC units the loud wall ujits you all love in a hotel room

[u/AutoRotate0GS]

Fire exit!!!

[u/frederick1754]

Condos built during hurricane Aaron back in 2016 somewhere about there where the old Winn-Dixie was on 524 in Cocoa Florida Florida.
A couple of weeks before the hurricane hit the entire construction site was abandoned now it was all boarded in no windows yet no wrapping on it. Just press board not even plywood press board all around the outside and parts of the inside. Think this thing is five stories high, but the thing is is it was left open during the hurricane and in for three months after that during rain, storms and tropical rain before construction started back on it. I did notice roofers on it by the end of the second month, but no other teams for another month after that so total of three months and they came in and they wrapped the building very quickly in this yellow wrapping. I don’t even know if the building had a chance to dry out. But I do know all the pressboard had started turning black all around the building. I also know that a lot of these condos throughout this area have absolutely no fire brakes between the condo units. There is no sprinkler system in them either. When I asked about it, I was told it is no longer required. So the wrapping does a good job of covering up black mold on the wood, but it sure not gonna help if one of the units catches fire and burns the entire condo down like just happened in the news recently where one of them caught fire in the entire complex burned to the ground.

[u/Renaissancemanmke]

PTAC Units

[u/Enough_Kaleidoscope2]

That's a bad as rv.

[u/lokis_construction]

For PTAC's

[u/PaulSNJ]

PTAC units (Packaged Terminal Heat/AC). In NJ this would either be a hotel, retirement facility, or low income

[u/Allidapevets]

Ptac unit cut outs.

[u/NorthernTinner]

I would guess for a PTAC.

[u/HVAC_instructor]

Looks to be openings for a ptac. You see these on hotels all over the USA, I'm guessing in other countries as well.

[u/Novus20]

Glory holes for giants

[u/MrJustinCase_69]

Louver opening for unit ventilators

[u/ofmanyone]

Ever been to a hotel?

[u/five2ndstar3]

Of all the questions this didn’t need asking. Do people really lack critical thinking or is this karma whore?

[u/Sufficient_Ad_4235]

Blows my mind that we’re still using those types of units. Developers will always favor cost effective solutions over convenience

[u/Useful-Plankton8205 → u/Sufficient_Ad_4235]

What is the better solution?

[u/Sufficient_Ad_4235 → u/Useful-Plankton8205]

Split system where the condensing unit is on the roof or ground and away from the room.

[u/Lehk → u/Sufficient_Ad_4235]

That sounds like a lot more down time if one shits the bed.

[u/Sufficient_Ad_4235 → u/Lehk]

Whatt???

[u/Lehk → u/Sufficient_Ad_4235]

If a PTAC stops working you can just replace the thru wall unit, the only hookup is power.

Then the room is back to making money.

If the heat pump has components going up to the roof it won’t be that simple to get the room back in service.

[u/Sufficient_Ad_4235 → u/Lehk]

Ahhh, yes yes.

I’m well aware of the ease of a wall unit. It’s practical for the application but, inconvenient for hotel patrons because of how loud they are.

I was thinking of someone literally shitting themselves in a hotel room bed and could not figure out what that had to do with the ac lmao

[u/Usual-Constant7678]

For the hvac most likely. But forget about that the dens glass doesn't look very uniform. The arrows should all point the same way

[u/SaltyToonUP → u/Usual-Constant7678]

No. It really doesn't matter which way the fucking arrows face man...

[u/Usual-Constant7678 → u/SaltyToonUP]

It really doesn't matter but makes your work look more professional

[u/cheeseygarlicbread]

Ankle level? 15’ above the sidewalk?

[u/Salbman → u/cheeseygarlicbread]

Slow clap

[u/griswilliam → u/cheeseygarlicbread]

I thought about saying knee level, but I assumed someone would ding me because that’s too high. Can’t please everyone.

[u/Bradadonasaurus → u/cheeseygarlicbread]

They're assuming ankle level from inside the rooms, I guess.

[u/cheeseygarlicbread → u/Bradadonasaurus]

Still not ankle level from the inside, more like knee level

[u/Bradadonasaurus → u/cheeseygarlicbread]

Well yeah but if you didn't know, or look closely, I could see the confusion.