Posted: 7/26/2012 7:15:12 PM EDT
| AC was down for 12 hours with temp over 100 degrees. All I had to do was sit in front of a fan and it was horrid. When I was younger worked in a steel mill for several years. Was stationed in the tropics for a year. Now I don't handle the heat well at all. Any older guys have the same problem? |
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AC was down for 12 hours with temp over 100 degrees. All I had to do was sit in front of a fan and it was horrid. When I was younger worked in a steel mill for several years. Was stationed in the tropics for a year. Now I don't handle the heat well at all. Any older guys have the same problem? Nope. My ac is just fine. 
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just went thru this hell last weekend..A/C ran fine on Fri, Sat morning ait was blowing HOT AIR  got an A/C guy out that afternoon, needless to say by sunday afternoon I was back in business...w/ a whole new unit and a $5K hole in my bank acct.
I live in S fla and at one pt it was 98 in the house and 103 outside. Humid was 97%.. |
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My unit was just replaced one year ago. yikes, my old unit was put in w/the house when we built it so figure 1998..not bad to last that long..I got A 16 SEER, the old unit was a ZERO SEER lol..so should be interesting to see what the bills are now. The unit is so quiet we cannot even hear it running, it is a cool 68 deg right now inside and 90 outside. The unit is not even breaking a sweat to keep up. My old one ran 24/7 and it never got below 74 |
When i worked as a service tech, less than 8 hours after a hurricane passed i got a call for service. I went and had to move trees and pieces of houses to get to his house, only to hear him bitch at me for taking so long then bitch because he was without light for 4 hours...  Other people didnt have light for over 8 days... anywho... first world problems and all. If only we could all grab our balls once in a while...
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Quoted: Quoted: My unit was just replaced one year ago. yikes, my old unit was put in w/the house when we built it so figure 1998..not bad to last that long..I got A 16 SEER, the old unit was a ZERO SEER lol..so should be interesting to see what the bills are now. The unit is so quiet we cannot even hear it running, it is a cool 68 deg right now inside and 90 outside. The unit is not even breaking a sweat to keep up. My old one ran 24/7 and it never got below 74 Unless you changed other things, your AC will run just about as much as the old one, but only more efficiently. Maybe new AC blows more velocity of air or a little colder air to cool it off a little quicker, but unless you changed your old leaky ducts and added insulation, your house will heat back up just as quick. People see $30/month change in their electric bill after they get a new AC, but your energy savings isn't just attributable to the new efficient AC unit. |