With our recent high  ttemps in the Denver Metro area it would figure that my room air conditioner would stop working. There were no 6000 BTU's available to me locally that were in my budget. Then I found this fantastic GE Energy Star model, in stock and mailable. It arrived two days ago and is happily doing a wonderous job cooling my 11.5 by 17 sitting room (former garage)it's light weight easy to install and cooled the room very quickly. Outside temp was over 100 degrees but inside my space was a comfortable 72. I had read a few reviews about this unit and two of the reviews stressed it was noisy. Happy to say I disagree. Operating noise level seemed quite low to me. On a one to ten scale,  it's ten Than you  G E