Sometimes You Just Have to Laugh

It looks like our A/C may have gone out again. We’re at (or mostly likely past) the point where we would have come out ahead just to replace the whole system.

I wish I had kept a record of all the times we’ve had our air conditioner worked on. A quick skim of the blog turned up at least three different posts (August 2008, June 2008, and May 2007) where the A/C had broken, and a couple more when the heater had broken. On top of that, some of those posts reference other repairs that I didn’t document online.

It’s going to be in the 80s this week and the 90s this weekend, so if we can’t get things working today on our own we’re going to have to call the A/C people out (again) and have them fix the thing (again) before we spent yet another weekend melting …

5 thoughts on “Sometimes You Just Have to Laugh”

  2. I feel for you. While I am all for companies making a profit, the profit margins on AC repair seem extremely high. P&L to replace a $35 capacitor is $130. P&L to replace a $5 breaker $130. P&L to replace a $25 contactor is $130. The problem that I have is that each of these repairs takes 5 minutes (including time to walk back to the truck to get the part). The bigger problem is that if you have multiple failures – you still pay $130 for each of the repairs above. Diagnostic trip charge $100. However, those guys have to work outside most of the day regardless of temperature. I do not, and for that I am grateful.

  3. I’m just wondering if you are going to make good on your threat (via twitter) to poop on the A/C man’s truck. (If you threaten something via a Tweet would that make it a twreat?)

  5. I feel for you. We replaced ours after the second repair. It’s held up well and we’re happy with it, but it was expensive–about 4 grand. Took a while to pay that off. Our A/C was fairly new, but it was from the PC Chips of air conditioners.

    Best of luck, and seriously, look into some thermal (aka blackout) curtains. They help keep the heat out in the summer time and they’re not terribly expensive. We got a bunch on clearance at JC Penney this weekend for $19 a pop. The weather is mild today so they haven’t been tested hard, but they did keep the intense morning sun out of one room and the A/C didn’t have to kick in at all before noon. And at night they keep noise and light pollution out, which is nice too.

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