So I had the ceiling fan on in the bedroom last night, a window fan somewhat pointed at the bed, delayed going to bed until 1.30-ish so I was pretty tired and, oddly enough, I survived. I did wake up at 6.30, but managed to nap for a few more minutes.
Now the fun and games of getting a repair person starts.
Why are all the Google ads for sumo wrestling suits? Inflatable, one assumes…
Maybe Google knows I am a fat bastard, and is mocking me. With the way technology has been treating me, I would not be surprised.
Read the OP.
villa, have you ruled out this problem?
Ah. But why no “sumo jock straps?” With photos?
I was wondering if yet another person wanted to run from the law with a fellow football star.
Our a/c has been out too. It’s been above 90 degrees here lately, but inside it’s closer to 120! Our windows face only north and south (apartment) so we can’t even get a good breeze going. Our maintenance people suck big fat shitty ASS, and normally it’d take them two weeks to fix any problem we had (like last summer when our dishwasher spewed water all over and leaked through to the people downstairs.) But I guess there’s lots of people here having the same problem as us - the a/c blows moderately cool air at intermittent intervals, at a force barely above a baby’s breath. I fgure by November they may have come to look at it.
It’s not so much me I’m worried about as the Bubster. He’s got heat rash like crazy, and can’t understand why it’s so damn hot.
Ew. Just, ew.
You have my condolences. This is a crummy time to not have A/C. Can you get a window unit for your bedroom?
I feel you. My car’s AC is dead. I live in Texas. My commute one way to work is about 45 minutes with one between 9 and 10 and one between 7 and 8.
It’ll cost more to fix the AC on that thing than it cost me to buy the (admittedly old and creaky) car in the first place. Luckily I’ve been approved for a car loan and I have my eye on a used Scion xB, but I don’t need car payments now on top of everything else… and while I scrape up the down payment I am sweating. Should take about a month.
At least I can go home to the cool…
I give a polite round of golf clapping for the Thread Title.
Well no maintenance is possible till Friday. And the weather might not break till the weekend, though we may storm tomorrow night.
So, on the drive home last night, I passed a Best Buy. I am now cheating on my central AC system with a cute little window unit. She doesn’t offer me all the central one does, but she is great in the bedroom, if you know what I mean.
Here you go, nothing a little ingenuity and duct tape won’t solve. 
We have AC but it’s not working like it should. The condenser is only five years old so it’s probably the blower, which is most likely original equipment like the previous condenser. 'Course the guy who installed the new condenser didn’t exactly know what he was doing.
At least the DC heat wave is supposed to break tomorrow.
I work for a heating and air conditioning company and we’re swamped with calls. It was 96 yesterday and today is going to be the same. The dispatchers were here at the office until 9:00 last night and one of the service techs said he’s going to have 90 hours this week. That is some nice OT. Since I’m the finance manager, it doesn’t affect me like it does others, but it’s absolutely nuts here.
The dispatchers have had several new assholes ripped since yesterday morning. People with no AC are cranky! However, probably not as cranky as the guys putting a new roof on my house were yesterday. I feel bad for those guys.
Now they’re predicting severe thunderstorms this evening, so I may join the ranks of the cranky folks if we lose power–which seems to happen if there’s so much as a gentle breeze.
It’s 11am in Minneapolis, and it is only 64F. I’m pissed. I want summer.
Sorry to hear, OP, but—been there and done that. Ended up with a window unit for the BR the first time and a bigger window unit the second time.
Cool showers, cold drinks, and crank up the fans!
Seconded. Well done.
That has always bothered me since I was a kid. A heater is an air conditioner that happens to be restriced to changing the air to the condition of being hotter.
I also hate air conditioners being sold by BTU. BTU makes me think of being on a grill. Someone should invent a universal unit of cooling.
