I've always said,
"When it's cold, you can always wear certain clothes or more layers & eat certain foods & even build a fire if needed to stay warm, but when its HOT, you can only take off so much clothing before people start looking at you weird."
"When it's cold, you can always wear certain clothes or more layers & eat certain foods & even build a fire if needed to stay warm, but when its HOT, you can only take off so much clothing before people start looking at you weird."
We have a carrier too.
My moms Goodman can wake the dead
We lost power yesterday, from 1:00 to 3:00. Blown transformer. House was up to 86° when power came on. Unit didn't shut off until 11:00.
Wonder what that is going to cost?
3 year old unit. Normally does great, even hot as it has been.
Wonder what that is going to cost?
3 year old unit. Normally does great, even hot as it has been.
Goodman and most manufacturers upped their decibel game. New unit 16 SEER and whisper quiet. Consumer guide ratings show Carrier at 1, Bryant at 2 and Goodman at 3 all with 4.2 to 4.0 ratings. My Lennox installed in 2004 was very noisy too. Your comparing apples to oranges.
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I feel your pain. I bought a brand new house in 2011 and moved in during the peak of summer. Couldn't get the house to cool down after 2 days of having everything closed up after the move. Turns out the contractor put in a vastly underpowered unit. With the updated seer ratings for the HE systems they said that it was to spec but the house would not cool down. I spent around $6k on a completely new top to bottom Bryant unit. Overpaid at the time because I got next day installation during the peak of the season, but the AC's been doing very well for the past 11 years. The only thing that's happened is it blew a capacitor on the condenser. Luckily for me I was able to fix it with a $15 part. 6K up front cost, but my highest cooling bill that I can remember was around $175.
Slightly off subject, but getting tired of sweating my arse off in the 30X40 shop/reloading building during the summer.
New window unit going to be installed. Too big for the windows so I’ll make up a frame of C purlin in a wall and install the 220V unit there. It has a remote to control the unit so might set it high.
There are two ceiling fans to keep the cool air circulating.
Just going to be a spot cooler so yes it could be a more efficient model for $1K more, but it will sit idle 8 months out of the year.
New window unit going to be installed. Too big for the windows so I’ll make up a frame of C purlin in a wall and install the 220V unit there. It has a remote to control the unit so might set it high.
There are two ceiling fans to keep the cool air circulating.
Just going to be a spot cooler so yes it could be a more efficient model for $1K more, but it will sit idle 8 months out of the year.
We are, but to be fair - our homes are designed for A/C. Windows, ceiling height, porches - no thought given to the 100 temps, as A/C makes it go away.
The "old folks" would get up in the dark, work half a day, eat dinner, rest up and then hit it again later as it cooled off. Many slept on the porch during summer.
Might be good to think about, before the power really goes out.
I remember Miss Hudson's house, the nice spinster lady we lived next door to in the early 60's... her AC consisted basically of a some kind of mat that looked like loose straw, kind of like what was inside the sides of a swamp cooler. It hung across a large window on the south side of her living room. Turning on the AC basically involved opening up all the windows, turning on enough water to drip through the mat and keep it moist, and hope a south breeze blew through the dampened mat. This was in SW Oklahoma, where it gets so hot even God doesn't go down there in the summer.
When I was a kid we used to have the beds in front of the windows. At night when you kicked on the attic fan the draw through the window would almost blow you off the bed. I can tell you hot weather is not a recent invention.
Country folks still have a similar schedule. I grew up eating breakfast just as the horizon was turning red so we could get the bulk of our work done before noon. During hay hauling season, we would start around 9-10pm depending on temps and haul until the early morning to avoid the heat.
Even though we are just on an acreage now, no cattle, I still feel incredibly guilty not being up by 6am on the weekends to get the outdoor stuff knocked out before it gets hot.
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