Our A/C unit bit the dust today...well at least it waited until the end of the summer eh?
The guy said the fan is out and maybe the compressor. I sure hope the landlord decides to replace it since it's over 20years old and probably doubles our electric bill every month.
Luckily it's only 87f and 61% humidity but still pretty miserable in here since there's no real breeze right now. We're just spoiled ;)
Back later I'm off to take my online exam for Lesson One of my Tarot course.
Wish me luck! :)
The guy said the fan is out and maybe the compressor. I sure hope the landlord decides to replace it since it's over 20years old and probably doubles our electric bill every month.
Luckily it's only 87f and 61% humidity but still pretty miserable in here since there's no real breeze right now. We're just spoiled ;)
Back later I'm off to take my online exam for Lesson One of my Tarot course.
Wish me luck! :)
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At least it's not still that over 100 F weather. I can remember when I was a kid we didn't have a/c and a huge window fan was put in a window pulling the air out of the house and a window in each bedroom (which was on the other side of the house) was opened just a couple of inches and it would pull in a real nice cool breeze. But then we had a lot of trees around the house and the weather simply was not as hot as it has been the past few years. Our central air bit the dust several years ago and we have window units in the living room and in each bedroom and then we sit those big box fans in the floor and pull the air to the dining room and kitchen. We also use ceiling fans both winter and summer. I know for a fact those central airs (expecially if they are some years old---ours was over twenty, also) holler twenty dolla, twenty dolla, twenty dolla everytime they come on. We have the same problem with our central heat and use it only when it gets "really" cold---the rest of the time we use a kerosene heater.
Okay so I got the notice of your post Diane but not the pic. I also have not received any of Yvonne's replies to any of my posts or this one. But was able to read them when I came to the site.
The real fast email postings to me are of course the ones that put to the blog and hence the reason why they come back to so fast. Maybe other posts take longer. That could be the reason why Marion had so much trouble today.
Yvonne, what we used to do before we had central air, Jack put an air conditioner in the basement window right in front of the furnace. Then he turned the furnace fan on and it sucked in the cold air from the window a/c and distributed it throughout the house. of course we had no temperature control and it had to run all the time. Still it was better than suffering. We had this system for many years before we instal central air.
Sounds like what you are doing is similar.
We too have ceiling fans and they run all year round.
This summer was so damn humid that I also purchased a few small fans for the windows to blow in fresh air when it wasn't hot enough for the a/c and even when it was it helped circulate the air better. This house is such a box, that any air does not circulate. A week from now you would be able what we cooked tonight, if we didn't have the fans.
We installed a new furnace just two years ago so our heating bill has gone down a bit, although hydro rates have gone up so we haven't noticed much of a saving. Again during the real cold snaps we keep the fan on the furnace running steady and that circulates the air around the house. I find when we do that the heat comes on less often as the warm air stays at a steady temp throughout the house instead of just in areas where the heating vents are.
The walls in this place are ice cold in the winter and you could cook an egg on them in the summer. That's cos there is no insulation in the walls. No room to put any, either :((( Of course back in 1951 when they built this place oil was pennies a gallon LOL (that's how it was heated before we bought it).
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