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    So no AC for at least a week. It's supposed to be in the mid to upper 90's and I have to survive in this humid ass heat. I actually feel worse for the dogs. The entire unit just went Kaput We knew it was going in the winter, but we didn't know it was going to happen that fast. I feel bad for my roomate too, however, she is from S. Africa and says she's used to it. I guess it bothers me more than her then. We are looking into alternate options for the weekend.

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    You could get a window AC unit, I think they're around $100.. maybe a used one at a pawn shop or something for cheaper? Get a bunch of fans and put them in the windows, like the big box fans. Keep blinds and curtains closed during the day to keep the heat out and try not to eat cooked food very much so you don't have to use the oven/stove! Hang in there I get really pissy when I'm hot.

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    We have fans in the windows..and the AC units we'd need are much more expensive. It doesn't help that I'm having a HORRIBLE period...
    Period + humid heat = PISSY BITCH!

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    ^ In that case, the best suggestion I have is a cold bottle of vodka

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    ^^^^^woot!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Default Re: Fairwell AC...Hello Sweaty Ass

    Let me guess -- when the power came back on from the storm blackout, it blew the AC unit, right?

    Why do you have to wait for an entire week?

    You could buy a single high-BTU window unit and just spend most of your time in that room.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lady Jade View Post
    I've lived my entire life without air conditioning.
    Me too,kinda. Growing up w had one window air cond unit that cooled the living room, kitchen and dining room. My dad hung a curtain in the hallway so all the air would stay in those areas. I have 2 brothers and 2 sisters and we all slept in the living room in the summer. Until I moved out, then my dad went and put the window units in the bedrooms too.

    Now, and ever since I had my own place, I keep my air at 68 degrees from March to November.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MeanGirl View Post
    Me too,kinda. Growing up w had one window air cond unit that cooled the living room, kitchen and dining room. My dad hung a curtain in the hallway so all the air would stay in those areas. I have 2 brothers and 2 sisters and we all slept in the living room in the summer. Until I moved out, then my dad went and put the window units in the bedrooms too.

    Now, and ever since I had my own place, I keep my air at 68 degrees from March to November.
    hah thats how i grew up too. and int he winter my mom would pitch a fit if we turned the heat over 62.

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    The HVAC places are soo busy they are booked until then. That and another problem. We are going to finance it. We always run E's credit because I KNOW mine is not very good. It's getting better but I made some dumb mistakes that fucked it up. A few years back in Ohio a kid took home a tape with people's identity info. E was one of those people. Ohio paid for everyone affected to have fraud protection. This can cause a lot of problems. It takes forever for the credit app to go through. He isn't applicable for instant credit approvals..etc. They require a wait period.
    We don't really want to use emergency expenses or put it on a high interest credit card when they have the no payments no interest for one year (which it will be paid off by then). SOOO that's another reason that it will take so long.

    I too was raised without AC...I'm starting to wonder how I did it. I guess when you're little you're just so busy that your little mind doesn't think how hot it is. So here I am, sitting at home with a knee injury...can't go to work and can't run around a bunch. I'm bored outta my mind and can only think about one thing. How hot it is. Although...mentally I've been able to tell myself it's cooler..I think that's working. We've got fans up, but I don't think we'll be buying the AC window unit. We have an open floorplan and I don't want to use A TON of electric keeping it cool. This is more environmentally friendly anyways. I keep telling myself that. I'm starting to think maybe I could handle this long term.
    I think I'll stick with L&L's idea of cold vodka

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    Default Re: Fairwell AC...Hello Sweaty Ass

    not to threadjack but i didnt want to start another ac thread-

    if you shut some of your vents off in the rooms you dont use does it increase your ac efficiancy?

    i have my air set to 67 and its 72 in here.....im kinda pissed. this is a new apt so i havent had to use the ac yet till now.

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    The only way I think that could be effective is if you shut the basement (lower level) vents and allow the cool air to settle. Also depends on the kind of system you have. If it's a heat pump, I believe it works by drawing hot air out of your home. Look into what kind of system you have and then try googling it to get more info. Or you could close all the vents other than the one near your thermostat (where it regulates and reads the temp) that'll keep it cool around there and run the ac less. The rest of the house may keep warm though. I may just be talking out of my ass too....i don't really know. Sorry for probably no help

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    I would put some ice in the dog's water bowl. Also, something cold for them to lay against or on, would be nice. When I had to make do without AC, I always had frozen water bottles for my ferret to lay next to. I THINK dogs are like ferrets with the whole "not sweating" thing. So, a fan doesn't do them any good. Perhaps bags of ice (maybe wrapped in an old towel) in the bathtub on those really bad days.
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    A fan can cool down a general temp. so it helps a little bit. At least they like to lay in front of it, so I assume it does something. We've got a hose and very well shaded patio area. If I hose it down it stays quite cool. I got them some frozen bones to gnaw on too. Our back never gets much sun, so that will be cool for them as well. Frozen water bottle are a good idea also!

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    ^Lol, you may not have AC... but at least you have a yard!
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    Quote Originally Posted by i.breathe.in View Post
    not to threadjack but i didnt want to start another ac thread-

    if you shut some of your vents off in the rooms you dont use does it increase your ac efficiancy?

    i have my air set to 67 and its 72 in here.....im kinda pissed. this is a new apt so i havent had to use the ac yet till now.

    I have 3 rooms that aren't in use in my home and i have all the vents closed so it's cooler in the rooms I do use.

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    When I was a kid the only window AC was in my parents bedroom, so we drug a mattress in there on the floor and we all slept in the one room all summer.

    Do you have a bedroom with a door that closes? You could put in a window AC and just use that room. But it prob wont be worth it for just a week.

    People lived for a long time without AC...it will be uncomfortable,but you will live!

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    Quote Originally Posted by MeanGirl View Post
    I have 3 rooms that aren't in use in my home and i have all the vents closed so it's cooler in the rooms I do use.
    We do this with the spare bedrooms and it works great, but be careful if you have an open floor plan and unused rooms. We have 4 rooms we never use downstairs so I shut the vents to them and it just ended up really hot all over the downstairs. The rooms with the open vents didn't seem any cooler than the ones with the closed vents. Apparently I wasn't using my thinking cap that morning.

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    Fan + bucket of ice = swamp cooler!

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    LOL at swamp cooler.
    I know we'll live, I worry my roomates going to want to leave because it's soo hot. I think she's ok with it, as she knows we're working hard to remedy the situation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ajbaer View Post
    So no AC for at least a week. It's supposed to be in the mid to upper 90's and I have to survive in this humid ass heat. I actually feel worse for the dogs. The entire unit just went Kaput We knew it was going in the winter, but we didn't know it was going to happen that fast. I feel bad for my roomate too, however, she is from S. Africa and says she's used to it. I guess it bothers me more than her then. We are looking into alternate options for the weekend.
    I just got a portable unit at BJs Wholesale Club for $279.00. Big enough for 350 square feet., just run the hose to the window and there is a plastic insert so you can crack the window for the exhaust hose. It only got the place down to 82 today, but that's a LOT more comfortable than 90!
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    My HVAC unit died on Wednesday, it's been unbearable heat wise here in Va. My husband found a guy to fix the unit in exchange for a tattoo, god bless the barter system! Hopefully this will get us thru the summer til we can get a new unit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by i.breathe.in View Post
    not to threadjack but i didnt want to start another ac thread-

    if you shut some of your vents off in the rooms you dont use does it increase your ac efficiancy?

    i have my air set to 67 and its 72 in here.....im kinda pissed. this is a new apt so i havent had to use the ac yet till now.
    No, no, no, no, no!

    Do not shut off the registers going to a room you don't use; it does nothing to help the system's efficiency, and in fact, will make it run harder to cool your home.

    Let's say your system is designed to deliver 1,000 units of cool air throughout your home, split up evenly between all the rooms. If you close off a register, that air is still being delivering down that duct run, except that now it has no place to go and the system is forced to find those missing units of air elsewhere: attics, basements, outside via doors and windows and any other unconditioned space available. Additionally, the air that is forced into that run starts to back up, and will eventually make your indoor coil ice up, and possibly even damage your compressor (the heart of your system).

    The proper way to redirect air away from rooms you don't need/use is with dampers located inside the duct system. These can either be manual dampers or (more expensive, but ideally) a zoned system that automatically raises and lowers the dampers and cools just the rooms you want, to the temperatures you desire.

    Most duct systems are very, very poorly designed. Whenever I travel the country doing my training, every contractor tells me the ducts in their area are the worst. A study done a few years ago by Florida Power & Light shows that, on average, the typical duct system loses at 30% of its airflow into the attics and crawlspaces. Having a well sealed duct system, combined with a regular maintenance program, will make your system run a lot longer, and deliver the efficiency you are actually paying for but not receiving now.

    We could talk about the advantages of variable air flow and 2-stage cooling, and how that would solve most of your problems, but that is whole other class.

    CP

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    Quote Originally Posted by i.breathe.in View Post
    not to threadjack but i didnt want to start another ac thread-

    if you shut some of your vents off in the rooms you dont use does it increase your ac efficiancy?
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    No, you're just more likely to damage your heating and air conditioning system.
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    Default Re: Fairwell AC...Hello Sweaty Ass

    Thank you CP and Silverback, this is good info to have. I've been leaving half the upstairs vents closed since we moved.

    CP - What is a damper? How would I find this. Would it be in the system in your average mid to high end home? We have 2 seperate systems for our house (upstairs and downstairs), if that helps.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chili Palmer View Post
    No, no, no, no, no!

    Do not shut off the registers going to a room you don't use; it does nothing to help the system's efficiency, and in fact, will make it run harder to cool your home.

    Let's say your system is designed to deliver 1,000 units of cool air throughout your home, split up evenly between all the rooms. If you close off a register, that air is still being delivering down that duct run, except that now it has no place to go and the system is forced to find those missing units of air elsewhere: attics, basements, outside via doors and windows and any other unconditioned space available. Additionally, the air that is forced into that run starts to back up, and will eventually make your indoor coil ice up, and possibly even damage your compressor (the heart of your system).

    The proper way to redirect air away from rooms you don't need/use is with dampers located inside the duct system. These can either be manual dampers or (more expensive, but ideally) a zoned system that automatically raises and lowers the dampers and cools just the rooms you want, to the temperatures you desire.

    Most duct systems are very, very poorly designed. Whenever I travel the country doing my training, every contractor tells me the ducts in their area are the worst. A study done a few years ago by Florida Power & Light shows that, on average, the typical duct system loses at 30% of its airflow into the attics and crawlspaces. Having a well sealed duct system, combined with a regular maintenance program, will make your system run a lot longer, and deliver the efficiency you are actually paying for but not receiving now.

    We could talk about the advantages of variable air flow and 2-stage cooling, and how that would solve most of your problems, but that is whole other class.

    CP
    About the damper. I know what it is, but I can't remember which way it is supposed to be. I know in the winter it's one way, in the summer the other. I just can't remember which is which.

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