Posted: 8/14/2010 4:34:09 PM EDT
August in southeast Texas is pretty much the worst time for this sort of thing.
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We enjoyed this same thing a month ago. Of course it wasn't 100°F then. Not much lower though. yup Texas is hot. Edit: I've been drinking and I am actually thinking if we all lived in a community I could make alot of money off of you guys because everyday I see my AC is out thread. It's what I do professionally but the bad news is there are so many hacks out there with better advertisement. That and I just got tired of sucking up to the customers selling them shit all the time. It's the reason I went into industrial. No selling stuff. Just staying at one place fixing shit. |
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at least its a dry heat, here the humidity will get you! 
Never been to southeast Texas have you? That's actually what I noticed before the heat. That it was muggy in here. Trust me, where we live, going from your front door to your car in the driveway makes you need another shower. 
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Go buy a $99 window unit from Wal-Mart. At least the bedroom will be cool. If it gets too bad we'll head down to his dad's house. So far it's hot but every room has a ceiling fan. He's been tinkering on it for the last hour so maybe he can get something going! |
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You check your breaker? Wife fried the vacuum yesterday and it was on the same breaker as the indoor blower. Thought it was out, but it jsut tripped the breaker when the motor on the vacuum shorted. Yeah, he did that first. It's the fan having a hard time keeping up. He can reset it and it'll work for a few minutes and then give out. I think he might be able to get a replacement fan tonight or in the morning. There's some confusion over whether our friend who has the extra fan has the capacitors for it. I dunno. Man talk I don't understand. 
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Dude - it's fo time. Someone cue the "pop the top off of the PMAG" gif... I am refusing to leave the house anymore. If my AC went out, this would be me: http://media.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=14615 First I thought you were making fun of me and then I remembered you're in TX too so probably serious. 
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We are moving to KY in a few weeks, we currently live in Western NY.
So our AC goes out last week, clogged condensation drain  which causes water to run all over our crawl space on the day of our home inspection by our "buyer"....I think I stressed a few years outta my life that day. Luckily I was able to fix the problem and the buyer still is going for the house. It was hot for about 4 days while we were trying to get things fixed and up and running again.
TX heat > Western NY heat. LOL. Not even close, but up here, we wear shorts when the weather tops 50 in mid-March cause its Spring time baby!! LOL!! |
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We didn't have air when I was a kid, in the house or the car. But I don't want to even think about going back to the "good ole days" of sticky clammy sheets and sweaty 24/7. Screw.That. Yeah, I don't know how they did it. I guess it's all what you're used to but that's sure something I don't want to have to *get used to!* |
 The baby has been asleep for 2 hours––––so far so good for her. Haven't tried to lay the other 2 down yet but I suspect there'll be some fitful sleeping tonight!
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We are moving to KY in a few weeks, we currently live in Western NY. So our AC goes out last week, clogged condensation drain which causes water to run all over our crawl space on the day of our home inspection by our "buyer"....I think I stressed a few years outta my life that day. Luckily I was able to fix the problem and the buyer still is going for the house. It was hot for about 4 days while we were trying to get things fixed and up and running again.
TX heat > Western NY heat. LOL. Not even close, but up here, we wear shorts when the weather tops 50 in mid-March cause its Spring time baby!! LOL!! Down here we wear shorts in December.  I got married November 23rd and wore shorts to the wedding site.
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Ours went out last week. It was absolute fuggin misery here just southwest of Houston.
We had every fan we could find going just to make it through the night.. Ended up being one of the high voltage lines into the circuit in the attic unit. Sorry you're going having to deal with this. It sucks for the family and the wallet. Good luck. |
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Ours went out last week. It was absolute fuggin misery here just southwest of Houston. We had every fan we could find going just to make it through the night.. Ended up being one of the high voltage lines into the circuit in the attic unit. Sorry you're going having to deal with this. It sucks for the family and the wallet. Good luck. Ugh...... He just left to get a replacement fan from a friend so I'm crossing my fingers that it'll at least get us through tonight and tomorrow! |
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at least its a dry heat, here the humidity will get you!
Never been to southeast Texas have you? That's actually what I noticed before the heat. That it was muggy in here. Trust me, where we live, going from your front door to your car in the driveway makes you need another shower. Or north, east Texas, I worked in Houston for six months a couple of years back during the summer, bout fucking died from the humidity.
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at least its a dry heat, here the humidity will get you!
Never been to southeast Texas have you? That's actually what I noticed before the heat. That it was muggy in here. Trust me, where we live, going from your front door to your car in the driveway makes you need another shower. Or north, east Texas, I worked in Houston for six months a couple of years back during the summer, bout fucking died from the humidity.
The only part of Texas that has lower humidity is west Texas. Yes! Back in June I was in the Fredricksburg, Gruene area––––-I guess that'd be considered central Texas––––-and it was nearly as bad. The saving grace was there seemed to be more of a breeze most days compared to here. Someone gave an apt description of the humidity the other day: it's like putting wet towels in the dryer, opening the door mid-cycle and climbing in with them.
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We didn't have air when I was a kid, in the house or the car. But I don't want to even think about going back to the "good ole days" of sticky clammy sheets and sweaty 24/7. Screw.That. Yeah, I don't know how they did it. I guess it's all what you're used to but that's sure something I don't want to have to *get used to!* I was born in Amarillo and don't remember ever having central A/C in any of our or other famile houses. All we had was what we called swamp coolers. They cool pretty well with the low humidity. Then we moved to the Dallas area when I was 11. Talk about shock. 
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We didn't have air when I was a kid, in the house or the car. But I don't want to even think about going back to the "good ole days" of sticky clammy sheets and sweaty 24/7. Screw.That. Yeah, I don't know how they did it. I guess it's all what you're used to but that's sure something I don't want to have to *get used to!* I was born in Amarillo and don't remember ever having central A/C in any of our or other famile houses. All we had was what we called swamp coolers. They cool pretty well with the low humidity. Then we moved to the Dallas area when I was 11. Talk about shock.
Been here 41 years now and still hate it. My sister lives in Dallas and she swears she'll never move back here because of the humidity. Wanna' come visit? 
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I'll start a new thread with all of my findings thus far.
new thread Wes |
