During the vacation these past three weeks we had turned off the air conditioning in the house. We arrived home to a very hot house. When we walked in at 1 AM the house was 90 degrees. We turned the AC on, all the ceiling fans and tried to sleep. When I woke up I found that the temperature was still 81 degrees. The AC was not working. So I called the local HVAC service company. Well we have two units, one for the upstairs and one for the downstairs. One had no freon, and the other had 30% freon. The service man said that the coils in the attic were old (he actually was surprised that they were still working after 10 years). So instead of doing the simple short-term fix and replacing the coils, we’re replacing the whole system for $10K, yup, that’s 10 big ones. Needless to say that we have to take a loan out for it. But then that’s life in modern america. I just can’t seem to get ahead. Sheesh!
June 9, 2005
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holy crap! was it working before you left? is it bad to turn it off permanently like you did?
Comment by Justin — June 9, 2005 @ 11:54 pm
Based upon what the serviceman said it was barely working before we left but we didn’t know it because it hadn’t been that hot out. Now it is hot (92 degrees) so the system is really working, and since we had turned it off it was unable to cool the house. I asked the same questions of the serviceman and he said that turning it off for years should be OK because it is a closed system (that is one that doesn’t have leaks like ours did). BTW, they are finished just now and we’re feeling a bit cooler.
Comment by Bri — June 10, 2005 @ 12:03 am