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charisstoma ([personal profile] charisstoma) wrote2014-09-22 10:55 am
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Air Conditioning = necessity.

Okay so just changing the filter didn't work.
HAD to work on Friday, it's one of our busiest days circulation wise and my Librarian was doing orientations through out the day.
Saturday was drive an hour to daughter and wonderful son-in-law's for baby shower. The future grandmother must attend.
Saturday night slept with ice pack hugged to chest.
Sunday was miserable, thankfully the weather cooled overnight sometime around 2 am but to survive we HAD to turn on the a/c to get the house down to 80F. from 89F. We couldn't stand it any longer.

Found out today that if I'd known that it ONLY (notice that only) cost $30 more the company would have come out Sunday.
Was fretting away thinking that we'd have to have a whole new unit put in again... just made the last payment on the a/c unit. That ranks into the thousands of dollars.
Did not sleep well.

So the very nice man came in and remember that drain that I poured bleach down and it went down just fine? Yeah well that drain goes directly into the water sewer. The clog was between that place and where the coils drain to. So the drainage line goes horizontal then does a sharp down into a loop which then empties below where I poured the bleach down. Took the very nice man a clip of the plastic pipe, drain the water out of the pipe, then blow air through the pipe removing the clog. Debating pouring more bleach down the intake that drains directly into the sewer. Do not want to have a clog form down there. It is a larger drain though.

Note to self. Have the people out for the Spring tune up. Because, oh Lord thank you, you don't want to be without a/c in Texas. How did they survive in the past?

Cost $145.59
A/c Priceless

[identity profile] mee-eep.livejournal.com 2014-09-22 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
*moves to hugs you, changes mind and fans you instead*

[identity profile] dyoklako.livejournal.com 2014-09-25 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
while having our house repaired (we had a termite infestation and had to replace A LOT of wooden parts in our 40-plus-year-old OLD house), we also had to remove our 10-plus-year-old A/C unit and will be buying an inverter-window-type one in a few weeks as it is more energy efficient than our old unit. good thing is that right now is the monsoon season and we are enjoying a lot of cool weather in the evenings. so i really feel for you when you mention that you have to endure hot evenings as we do have that here in our tropical parts. thank the heavens for electric fans. the electric is another story (we have one of the highest electric rates in the world).

so glad too that you were able to get yours fixed. take care over there and remember to drink lots of fluid as much as you can to avoid getting dehydrated. it will also help you feel cool.