Aircon follies
Oct. 18th, 2012 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stephbgWelcome to an exciting post about one of my major appliances. You may want to skip this.
After a frightening amount of procrastination, made worse by multiple phone calls and multiple web failures I managed to get someone out today to look at the reverse cycle aircondition in our bedroom. The Most Important Aircon Of All. It's been dripping water inside for several summers now and we've been laying out towels and such, but I knew it had to all end some day.
While I had the tradie out I asked them about the increasing noise from the outside unit from suspected worn bearings, and whether a repair was feasable and/or affordable. Before he looked he said it was very unlikely that a repair would be worth the effort and I was probably looking at replacement cost. Hilarious. Fortunately after he looked (and indeed listened) he said the noise was not unreasonable for a unit of its age (about 8 years I think), and was unlikely to attract a noise pollution summons any time soon. OK, may not in those exact words, but he had a gorgeous musical velvety african accent and it was hard to concentrate on specifics.
As for the main problem he said we had a gas leak which was causing the pipes to ice up. Upon melting, that ice landed inside, rather than down the drainage system which was deemed Fine. So, the office will be sending me a quote for repair and re-gas. Fortunately they won't charge a second callout fee, because for no actual net improvement in service today was quite expensive enough. But there is hope, and possibly a reduction in electrical cost if the thing is running at better efficiency once more. Power bills hurty.
In other news, The Catmobile failed to start this evening when I tried to go to the shops. It's almost exactly 6 months since the last time this happened, and given the similar symptoms I imagine it might be the same problem. A little lug has fallen off part of the clutch assembly and cut power to the ignition system. Or something completely novel involving cat fur in the manifold. *shrug* Husband was around so he drove me to the shops and I'll call the RAC tomorrow after peak hour has cleared. I'm most fortunate that I don't have anything important scheduled, and having this happen at home was an improvement over the last time outside the Japanese restaurant just before Swancon.
Yes, space and time are all one big timey-wimey-spacey-wacey thingie. We all know that, because after Swancon is the Pancakes place.
Tomorrow goddess willing I get a hard-won second quote for some roof drainage improvements. Water again being the culprit. Inconvenient stuff, good thing it's being phased out.
After a frightening amount of procrastination, made worse by multiple phone calls and multiple web failures I managed to get someone out today to look at the reverse cycle aircondition in our bedroom. The Most Important Aircon Of All. It's been dripping water inside for several summers now and we've been laying out towels and such, but I knew it had to all end some day.
While I had the tradie out I asked them about the increasing noise from the outside unit from suspected worn bearings, and whether a repair was feasable and/or affordable. Before he looked he said it was very unlikely that a repair would be worth the effort and I was probably looking at replacement cost. Hilarious. Fortunately after he looked (and indeed listened) he said the noise was not unreasonable for a unit of its age (about 8 years I think), and was unlikely to attract a noise pollution summons any time soon. OK, may not in those exact words, but he had a gorgeous musical velvety african accent and it was hard to concentrate on specifics.
As for the main problem he said we had a gas leak which was causing the pipes to ice up. Upon melting, that ice landed inside, rather than down the drainage system which was deemed Fine. So, the office will be sending me a quote for repair and re-gas. Fortunately they won't charge a second callout fee, because for no actual net improvement in service today was quite expensive enough. But there is hope, and possibly a reduction in electrical cost if the thing is running at better efficiency once more. Power bills hurty.
In other news, The Catmobile failed to start this evening when I tried to go to the shops. It's almost exactly 6 months since the last time this happened, and given the similar symptoms I imagine it might be the same problem. A little lug has fallen off part of the clutch assembly and cut power to the ignition system. Or something completely novel involving cat fur in the manifold. *shrug* Husband was around so he drove me to the shops and I'll call the RAC tomorrow after peak hour has cleared. I'm most fortunate that I don't have anything important scheduled, and having this happen at home was an improvement over the last time outside the Japanese restaurant just before Swancon.
Yes, space and time are all one big timey-wimey-spacey-wacey thingie. We all know that, because after Swancon is the Pancakes place.
Tomorrow goddess willing I get a hard-won second quote for some roof drainage improvements. Water again being the culprit. Inconvenient stuff, good thing it's being phased out.
