Alpine Hardware Premium Heat Pump Drillless Drill-Less Window Air Conditioner & Heat Pump Bracket - Window AC Support - Supports Air Conditioners Well Over 200 lbs. - No Drilling 2023 Model

Received July/August 2021. This is solid and well-made, very sturdy. People complaining about the braces falling open are wrong, at least for the version I got - the top of the brace is constructed such that, if you assemble correctly, it cannot fall open (feet slide off the wall). In fact, you have to assemble them after checking (and trying) your wall width. It does look as though the holders for the silly level bubbles are placed so you cannot adjust the outward vertical braces (who needs these levels?), but there is a lot of adjustment in where you connect the wall braces. I have two of these on horizontally outward opening windows where the sill and window gear are a pain and I didnt want any screws - brace them against the interior wall, not the sill. Works just fine. Makes it easy to install/remove my air conditioners each summer. You get what you pay for.

I have used the one leg and this version. Installed a large 18.000 BTU unit with this item. Not too many parts, decent directions. I had to fiddle with the settings to get it right (VERY weird customer window so harder). Best part was the level-allowed me to gauge EXACTLY when i got everything right. Before the AC unit went in, I hung my 165 pound body on this to show my customer how strong it is. Dont screw around, an AC can break the glass in a window, and/or bend or warp your window. Instead place it on this support. It will protect your window from rot (same customer had wood under their last unit-this job included rebuilding the window ledge). The outside foot will protect most house cladding-even cedar shakes. Ill never install a window unit that weighs more than 45 pounds without the one arm or two arm version. Check your ac unit weight and buy one of these. It will look professional. (I am a Home Improvement/maintenance contractor).

Since the written instructions for the two-arm, heavy duty version (drilling required) of this bracket are almost impossible to follow, a good installation video is needed, but there are a lot of problems in Alpines installation video. Mainly, the sections showing how to install the connector bar are pretty screwed up - it shows the long hex bar being inserted at different locations. Also, in the section for the final installation (at 2:52 of the video), the connector bar magically disappears altogether. More detailed comments, with many of the flaws in the video, can be found at the YouTube version of this video (the two arm, heavy duty, drilling required version). Alpine did a really sloppy job with this video.

This review covers the drill-less version of the bracket. Make sure this will work with your air conditioner. The bracket arms that extend out are between 13” and 16” apart so edge to edge the feet on the window side of your air conditioner need to be in this range. I first tried this with a 6000 BTU Amana air conditioner but the “feet” on the front of the unit were two narrow so the front towards the window was not supported properly. Then I used it on a Frigidaire air conditioner. The feet on the Frigidaire air conditioners are 2.5 time the width of most other window air conditioners so it rested on the bracket perfectly. The feet on the Amanda were about 1/2 an inch wide. The feet in the Frigidaire were about 2 3/4 inches wide.

Bought this to replace a failed bracket for my LG 15K BTU room air conditioner. Unit was fullfilled by Amazon. Unit arrived in its box, damaged. The level vials were broken and one was drained of its fluid. That is enough to warrant a return right there, but this was intended for supporting a large AC unit. it is probably strong enough to hold the Unit in the window, IF, it fit the unit. My AC unit measures 25 deep without the front face grill. This bracket measures overall 18. that is 18 from the front holes used for mounting to the window sill to the end of the bracket outside the window. My AC is a slide in as most of the large units are, you have to mount the can in the window then slide the Unit into the can and mount the front grille. The can has no bottom. There is no way to mount the can to this bracket. It is just plain flat too small. Here, SIZE DOES MATTER! It may very well hold 180# but that is deceiving because a 180# AC unit is going to be a lot larger than 18 deep x 18 wide. This will not work for the class of AC unit claimed in its advertising. Gave it three stars cause it does appear that it would work fine for a small unit.outside of the broken level vials which seem to be common with this product. Returned for refund. It only measures 18 x 18 good thing to know when mounting a 27 wide by 25 deep AC unit.

I needed a drill-less bracket for my AC and chose this item. Although you dont need to drill the bracket into your outside wall you still need a handful of tools to assemble the bracket itself properly. The instructional video has a lot of unnecessary steps which will require you, as shown in the video, to make constant adjustments to the bracket. For an instructional/installation video there is way too much trial and error. The first step of the video asks you to measure the distance from the outside wall to your window frame and by the end completely ignores that measurement as they adjust the bracket based only on it being level. The measurement and initial placements of the support legs they ask you to do are completely unnecessary. The video itself readjusts the support legs 3 times in order to install the bracket correctly. If you purchase this item I would ignore the video and only adjust the bracket so its level to your window frame. Constantly readjusting the legs is a pain especially as you have to go back and forth with tightening/loosening screws with pliers.

The thing you got to know before puchasing is what ac you get and try picture how its going to sit on this unit its completely flat. Make sure your ac is also flat on the bottom, wise your going to need to add with this like wood or something like that. Mine wasnt obviously.

I just installed this over the weekend. Its pretty rickety (my unit is 10,000 BTU and around 80-100 pounds) and although you dont have to screw anything into the outside wall, you do have to screw 3 holes into the windowsill. Luckily, we live in an extremely old house and my landlord said before we moved in that he needs to replace the windowsills at some point, so when I asked him if I could drill, he just shrugged and said, Why not? Installation is fairly easy, but I found myself having to be extremely delicate with the unit itself on top of the support. It rocks slightly from side to side which made me worried that my unit would fall if I didnt take a ton of care. I had one other person helping me inside, and somebody outside to help guide the unit into place so that we wouldnt have to slide it at all. At the end of the day, this was extremely cheap compared to the other brackets (which I suspect are almost the exact same thing). At the time of purchase, it was half the price of the equivalent product at Lowes. The level was helpful (though I double checked with another level when I got the unit in). And hey- it works, albeit rickety. Worth the money I paid, but not a dime more.

The product was fine, but the instructions were terrible with unclear directions on which type of nuts/washers to use. Technically there was enough parts but I had to mix and match. I also had to supplement a one of my own washer because it was missing one. Printed instructions was poorly organized and confusing. The product technically all fits together as shown, but was too large and stuck out of my window too far and is unsightly. The support legs were difficult to adjust because it was held together with with four bolts, screw and washer so it made the moving these parts when drying fitting not as easy even when leg as a gage. Also, I still had to rig a few bunch of foam and fillers underneath the support brackets just to prevent a draft, so a seamless solution was still not possible for my case. The product technically works but was not a good fit for my situation.

Exactly what I wanted. I didnt want to drill holes in the siding but needed a window unit for my garage. It holds a 12000btu unit very well. It is capable of holding even a larger unit. Most importantly NO HOLES!