ARgh, mateys

[gategrrl]

Saturday night Guy and I nearly had heart attacks when the A/C apparently stopped working (this is during a heat wave where it rarely goes below 95F) late Saturday evening. We opened up the filter thingy and discovered it was clogged and filthy with dog hair and stuff. I really need to vacuum more often! But aside from that, we'd realized it's been at least two, three years since we had someone do a check-up on it.

Sunday morning Mermaid and I drove over to the local OSH store, and I picked up a superdooper antiAllergen filter. Soon after plunking that into the filter slide (arrow facing up to follow the airflow, naturally) the A/C started working *fine*. There was airflow, coolness, etc. Huh. Okay. I've now got a once-a-month appointment listed on my PDA calender to remind me to change the silly thing once a month. But we do still need someone to do a check on it, sometime.

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[ldyanne.livejournal.com]

I share your pain. Saturday evening I realized it hadn't gotten below 80 degrees all day in my apartment with it being over 90 outside. I called my apartment manager and they had it fixed by Sunday evening. I love my a/c!

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

It's been so hot here lately (in the mid 90s to low 100s) that I keep the thermostat at 80F most of the time. Guy turns it down when he gets home - but our house tends to collect heat during the day, so it does get REALLY hot in the late afternoon, early evening.

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm glad it's not broken! Ours cost us a million dollars to get fixed. (Okay, only about $1200, but that was bad enough. *g*)

We use those special allergy filters, too. They really help. We only change them every couple of months, though more frequently in the summer.

Vacuum more often? What's that? *g*