I've been too busy or distracted this week to write this up earlier, but our air conditioning saga is hopefully now at an end. The new unit had been scheduled to arrive a week ago today, but when the two man crew showed up shortly after 8:00 a.m. on Saturday morning and began unloading their truck, it was to discover that the wrong model had been shipped from the supplier! Now, you may wonder why they wouldn't have checked that earlier in the week - say, when it arrived at their shop and there was still time to do something about the screwup - but it doesn't pay to dwell on such matters, I'm told.
Attempt # 2 came on Wednesday evening, when the correct unit made its long-awaited appearance and the guys worked from 6:00 p.m. until a little after 11:00, during which time the temperature in the house rose from around 22.5° C (2° lower than normal, as I was anticipating an extended outage) to 28.5°. The good news is that the much more efficient model that replaced our 1980 unit got us all the way back down to 24.5° in quick order once it came online.
Not surprisingly, our new air conditioner seems whisper quiet to us after 12 years with the machine that we affectionately referred to as "the jet engine". For those who've experienced the whole "speak up a bit, the air just came on" effect while sitting in our backyard, you can rest assured that's a thing of the past now.
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