Cooling The House

The apartment we live in does not have central air. When we signed the lease, there was one broken a/c unit in the wall, and they said they would replace it. We weren't in too much of a rush, because we had our own units to go in the windows. The only problem is that our windows are small, and the units are big. It took Junior and one of his friends about an hour to figure out how to shimmy the unit into the window. I was afraid that they were going to break the glass because they were slamming the window up, and using screwdrivers and all kinds of things to get the window up just a little more. They finally got it in, but it blocks the sun from coming into the living room.

It is almost time to resign the lease, and if we do, Junior is going to ask if we can take out the broken unit in the wall and put ours in the hole. He says it will fit, but we will have a problem with the plug. The old unit is a 220, and our unit is not. The management company may need to call in a Tampa Electrician to switch out the plugs. It's the least they can do since they never replaced the broken unit like they were supposed to.

Keeping It Cool

Growing up in New York, our house did not have central air conditioning. The only room in our house with air conditioning was my parents, and we were not allowed in there. We would have to suffer through the nights with open windows and fans. Luckily we had a two story house, and we could keep the bedroom windows open all night because they were on the second floor. Looking back, I have no idea how we lived like that. I remember spending a lot of time at my Aunts house in the summer, and it was great because she did have air conditioning. I wish my parents had looked into having a Cleveland hvac guy come and put air conditioning in the house. Either that, or they should have let us kids sleep on the floor in their bedroom where it was cool.

Living in South Carolina now, it is impossible to make it through the Summer without air conditioning. Truthfully, it's hard making it through the Spring without it. It's only April, and we have had ours running for a couple of weeks now. It is very uncommon to find a home that isn't air conditioned. We like keeping it cool down south.