My AC Was Stolen

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a1mamacat · #26 Post by **a1mamacat** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 11:19 pm

may the little basstids roast in hell, with no AC themselves!

TheConfessor · #27 Post by **TheConfessor** » Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:28 am

Just catching up on the details. Your incident has parallels with mine. They saw that my next door neighbor's house was vacant, so they went after it, and I happened to be away at the time, so they got mine, too as an afterthought. In my case it was a brand new McMansion built to replace the burning house in my avatar. It had three separate zoned A/C systems, brand new. So they got those three, then took mine. Seems like it cost about $2500, just to replace the outside unit. But it happened in October, so I let it slide for a few months.

#28 Post by **littlebeast13** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 7:54 am

I get two more days of living it up au naturale. The new AC doesn't come until Monday morning...

lb13

a1mamacat · #29 Post by **a1mamacat** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 9:08 am

littlebeast13 wrote:I get two more days of living it up au naturale. The new AC doesn't come until Monday morning...

lb13

at least you can "strip off" The poor Boyz will be stuck in fur coats!!!

SportsFan68 · #30 Post by **SportsFan68** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 7:54 pm

Less than 24 hours before Odie and Bisqt are all comfy again!

Ody · #31 Post by **Ody** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 8:07 pm

SportsFan68 wrote:Less than 24 hours before Odie and Bisqt are all comfy again!

I haven't been comfy a single day I've been imprisoned in this pigpen...

a1mamacat · #32 Post by **a1mamacat** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 9:35 pm

Ody wrote:
SportsFan68 wrote:Less than 24 hours before Odie and Bisqt are all comfy again!

I haven't been comfy a single day I've been imprisoned in this pigpen...

you poor poor kitteh....

earendel · #33 Post by **earendel** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 6:26 am

Our AC decided to stop working on Saturday. Two days trying to sleep in hot humid weather while wearing a CPAP machine hasn't been fun.

ToLiveIsToFly · #34 Post by **ToLiveIsToFly** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 8:56 am

A week ago today, I got a call from our tenants that the living room A/C had died. It was 11 years old, so none too surprising. It's a through-the-wall unit, So I had the guy measure the hole, let me know what kind of plug it took, etc.

Called an appliance store to make sure that what I was getting would work with the hole in the wall. Apparently, having a Fedders AC limited my choices to Friedrich, and an appropriately powerful machine was going to cost me $850, which seemed high then but, reading this, sounds much better. Anyway, I priced it out online for sanity, and called my tenant back. I could order delivery from the store and it'd be there in a week, I could get it from Amazon and it'd be there on Wednesday, or he could go pick it up and have A/C that day.

Four hours later he's got the unit home, and in the wall, and it turns out it doesn't take a 220V plug after all, it takes a 110V. I got half an hour of invective on the phone, which I'll chalk to his frustration with having carried a really heavy A/C unit a long way (the building parking lot was being resurfaced that day, so he had parked on the street, and then had to haul it up two flights of stairs). He wanted me to drive from Kalamazoo to Chicago to fix it for him, that day. It was 6pm. Fat lot of good it would have done him even if I left that second. I called the appliance store back and, for an extra fee, they could come Thursday, bring a new one, and haul away the old. Tenant ended up going back and exchanging it himself. I'm out an $85 restocking fee in addition to the cost of the A/C.

If you don't know the difference between a 110V outlet and a 220V, how hard is it to just say, "I don't know"?

Bob Juch · #35 Post by **Bob Juch** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 9:14 am

ToLiveIsToFly wrote:A week ago today, I got a call from our tenants that the living room A/C had died. It was 11 years old, so none too surprising. It's a through-the-wall unit, So I had the guy measure the hole, let me know what kind of plug it took, etc.

Called an appliance store to make sure that what I was getting would work with the hole in the wall. Apparently, having a Fedders AC limited my choices to Friedrich, and an appropriately powerful machine was going to cost me $850, which seemed high then but, reading this, sounds much better. Anyway, I priced it out online for sanity, and called my tenant back. I could order delivery from the store and it'd be there in a week, I could get it from Amazon and it'd be there on Wednesday, or he could go pick it up and have A/C that day.

Four hours later he's got the unit home, and in the wall, and it turns out it doesn't take a 220V plug after all, it takes a 110V. I got half an hour of invective on the phone, which I'll chalk to his frustration with having carried a really heavy A/C unit a long way (the building parking lot was being resurfaced that day, so he had parked on the street, and then had to haul it up two flights of stairs). He wanted me to drive from Kalamazoo to Chicago to fix it for him, that day. It was 6pm. Fat lot of good it would have done him even if I left that second. I called the appliance store back and, for an extra fee, they could come Thursday, bring a new one, and haul away the old. Tenant ended up going back and exchanging it himself. I'm out an $85 restocking fee in addition to the cost of the A/C.

If you don't know the difference between a 110V outlet and a 220V, how hard is it to just say, "I don't know"?

Or to take a photo of the plug with your phone. That's what I did when I had to buy a different cord for my dryer when I moved into this house. (The house doesn't have a grounded circuit.)

Beebs52 · #36 Post by **Beebs52** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 9:56 am

We were without AC last year in our new place, for a week. July 6-13 or so. It was real special.

#37 Post by **littlebeast13** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 11:03 am

littlebeast13 wrote:I get two more days of living it up au naturale. The new AC doesn't come until Monday morning...

lb13

Still waiting.....

lb13

Bob Juch · #38 Post by **Bob Juch** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 11:17 am

littlebeast13 wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:I get two more days of living it up au naturale. The new AC doesn't come until Monday morning...

lb13

Still waiting.....

lb13

You should come up with an appropriate avatar.

Estonut · #39 Post by **Estonut** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 4:10 pm

earendel wrote:Two days trying to sleep in hot humid weather while wearing a CPAP machine hasn't been fun.

IANAD, but I think you're only supposed to wear the mask...

silverscreenselect · #40 Post by **silverscreenselect** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 4:29 pm

Estonut wrote:
earendel wrote:Two days trying to sleep in hot humid weather while wearing a CPAP machine hasn't been fun.
IANAD, but I think you're only supposed to wear the mask...

I don't think you'll have any problems breathing after this:

jarnon · #41 Post by **jarnon** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 4:38 pm

Ody and Biskit will be glad when their ordeal ends soon. But look what happened to these poor dogs in Arizona when the AC went out:

Dog deaths at Gilbert kennel investigated

Bob Juch · #42 Post by **Bob Juch** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 5:14 pm

jarnon wrote:Ody and Biskit will be glad when their ordeal ends soon. But look what happened to these poor dogs in Arizona when the AC went out:

Dog deaths at Gilbert kennel investigated

I saw that earlier. Someone wasn't attending to them properly. I hope the investigation results in prosecution.

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