Earlier this week I woke up Daniel and he told me the air had run all night long. We checked the temperature in the house and groaned. It was set at 73. That meant it would be a HOT day! Daniel went to work and Lucca and I played together as the house just got hotter and hotter. I turned the air up to 75. Then to 78. Then...I just turned it off. It was 81 in the house and do you know what the temp was outside? 86. If the ac can't cool the house less than 10 degrees, then something is wrong. So we called a friend who used to work in air conditioning to come check it out. We got the news: it was the compressor and his former boss would only charge $400 to fix it once the part came in! Yay? Meanwhile, we packed up and went to the in-laws' house where it was decidedly not 81 degrees in the middle of the night. Not sweating all night was very pleasant! It was nice to be over there, but I have to be honest and say that it probably wasn't a good idea since by the end of our stay Lucca was done with me because Mimi was way better. It's a good thing I am the source of 99% of her food because otherwise I might have lost her. How can I compete with someone who doesn't do such terrible things as make her get dressed, force her into a diaper or *gasp!* take away the cat food! Thankfully it cooled down so I could steal my child away and re-educate her on how much fun I am.
Then today came and the ac guy showed up a day earlier than we expected! So he looked again and lo and behold, the problem was not the compressor, it was the freon! Apparently the design is really dumb (probably because it's the cheapest ac unit ever available I'm sure) and a pipe got a hole in it and all the freon drained. So instead of spending $400, we only had to spend $260. Yay! After all this, the ac guy told me to tell Daniel to call him when he got a chance so that he could explain what had happened. I am obviously incapable of saying "The freon drained because of a hole."
So today I saved $140 by spending $260 on a 2 year old ac unit that was improperly installed so that cold air is blowing under the house. Oh yeah, I didn't mention that part. I also didn't mention that in two rooms of our house we have vents that are just decorative. Yes, you read that right. Decorative vents. As in "we didn't feel like cutting through concrete, so we'll just stick this vent on top of it and hope no one notices." I guess the joke's on us, since we bought the house anyway. It's kind of an expensive joke.
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