Ac went out last night and the wheel broke off my lawnmower this morning. I put some window units in but it's hot AF in my casa. Chances are some of my fancy dwarf shrimp will die from the hotter aquarium water. All I need now is for my wife to leave me and I'll have a country song.
AC guy came out, it turns out the breaker switch is bad. It kicked on when he touched it with his screwdriver. Annoying thing is that I flipped it last night. Electrician time. I have AC (for now). I did the math, and I'm just going to pay someone to do the lawn from now on. I pay my teenager $10 to do it but he bellyaches about it. New mower + fuel + heat...would rather just pay a pro.
Good and bad, electrician could get pretty extensive. AC is just AC, hopefully it’s just a breaker and nothing else
Electrician I found is quoting me $150+part. Seems reasonable for me to not kill myself in 100+ heat.
It's not over yet, once autonomous cars become the norm you can also write a country song about your truck leaving you.
I remember several times the AC going out in summer and my dad packing us all up and spending the night at the Adams Mark hotel on Westheimer. AC guy would fix it the next morning.
I remember several times the AC going out in the summer and my dad saying "turn a fan on". I just visited my parents and they had the thermostat set at around 82. I was about to go outside to cool down. My AC went out briefly yesterday afternoon right when it hit around 103, but started working again after a few minutes. It got to around 105 or 106 today, but it churned through with no issues. I need to clean that drain line one of these days. And holy hell, heat index has been around 114-116 the past 2 days here. I was surprised how the concrete on my patio was only around 125. Thought it'd be hotter. My fence was 154. I don't know how accurate those readings are with a temp gun, but yes, I was bored. Kind of scared what July and August will bring now. lol.
My dad grew up in the Hill Country with no AC and he said they never missed it because they never had it. One day I remember him saying that he'd been hot enough for long enough (in the country, at Tigerland, visiting customers and walking around oil refinery-type places wearing a banker's suit, etc...) that he really appreciated the wonder of air conditioning more than us punk kids will ever know. I've checked my infrared electrician's temp gun against a deep fry thermometer on a pot of grease, and against a probe thermometer in a bbq pit and found it to be quite accurate. Never wanted to know how hot my concrete or fence is, though.
With how hot it's been so early in the summer I'd be shocked if we don't have a few massive Hurricanes coming through the gulf this season. I sure hope I'm wrong though.
So my contractor buddy came over and put in a new breaker…and the AC won’t work now. Checked the current all the way to the condenser and it’s getting power. He thinks it’s the capacitor so I guess the AC guy will be coming back out tomorrow. I got ‘the look’ from my wife for re-breaking the AC. @Buck Turgidson I didn’t have AC until I was 7. My grandparents were old school and just opened the windows. It was hot.
Capacitor is easy enough, you could replace it yourself if you can find a replacement. Still sucks not having AC
Oh I spent a good bit of time every summer back as a kid with my grandparents. No ac, just ceiling fans and open windows. I don't remember it bothering me. Granny finally got old enough 15 years or so ago to let us put a window unit in her bedroom and a swamp cooler in the big family/tv room. I spent a couple of solo summers in an old ranch house with no AC about a decade ago, you got used to it, you just couldn't plan on going to sleep before 10 or 11, because that's when the indoor temp would drop to below 80
AC kicked back on. I don't trust the AC to stay on so I'm going to keep the window units in until I get a fix I feel comfortable with. My HOA will b**** at me. AC guy is coming back tomorrow to take another look. @Buck Turgidson I lived with the grandparents until I was 7. It was waterfront in Seabrook so we did get nice ocean breeze but it was still hot AF sleeping at night. I think I have some sort of latent heat sensitivity (maybe it's genetic? super north euro here) and I've never been able to sleep well in the heat. Despite that, I was a kid so it didn't stop me.
