Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for July 19, 2024

you interrupted its OHM session, Kate.

Now, keep your cool Katy

Adam is HVACuous.

It may be dirty turn the power off to the unit take the garden hose and clean it out it should work cooler

Yell at the sun ,Katy!

Kill her, AC—no jury will EVER convict you!

They must live in one of those plains states suffering triple-digit temperatures.

Take a cool shower, Adam!

Call for service. They’ll get there in 2 – 3 weeks or the Fall, which ever comes last.

A/C units, in extreme heat, can’t “work harder”. You’ll burn out the machine. Be patient; the heat wave will abate. Ours just did – YAY!

Yea, it moved over here to the UK where we don’t HAVE AIR CON!

I don’t have an AC at my place and this heat wave dam near melted me!

She’s the one who loves summer; serves her right

They’re lucky to have even that. I have no A/C in my mail truck and it seems to absorb the heat. :-(

Adam needs one of those little desk cooling units.

Our heat pump does okay in the summer, but it’s an inadequate, power-gobbling failure in the winter.

It’s doing the best it can.

Yeah nagging it will sure help.

If you have decent insulation turn the AC to 60 at night and 80 during the day. It will work less at night and your insulation will keep it cool during the day and most of the time it will not even activate after the first few days. YMMV depending on your local climate. I lived in San Francisco most of my life. Never had need for residential AC.

Don’t think it heard you……

Very Zen air conditioner

We have room 4 A/Cs in our bedroom, our home office (aka medium bedroom), my teddy bears’ room (aka the small bedroom/guest room – has been used maybe 4 times at most as a guest room in 35 years), and our den (aka studio) behind the kitchen.

We used to have one in our living room in its rear window. Then, as part of everything else which had to change in our house when husband bought his small “big screen” TV. The TV sits in the front of the room – he likes to watch a movie on the TV on Sunday afternoons (I am only expected/required to come to the “Friday night midnight movie” and the “Saturday night date night movie” and I am excused from the Sunday matinee “James Bond or similar” movie. ) Since he is watching movies in the room during the day we made blackout curtains for the rear windows. He took out the air conditioner which had died from one of those windows. So the room does not have an air conditioner – as no access to the rear windows due to his blackout curtains, front window is behind the TV, and there is no place to put one through the wall.

He has come up with a system to cool off the living room when we are or he is watching a movie in there during hot weather. He turns the a/c in our studio which blows towards the front of the house through the kitchen where there is a ceiling fan on, continues into the dining room on the other (front) side of the kitchen. At the front corner of the dining room where this air is being blown he has a pillar fan which redirects the cold air across the front hall into the living room which it enters on a slight angle towards where we are sitting. It sort of vaguely works.

Whatever makes him happy, well not actually happy, but less upset.