I travel back and forth between two houses.
I properly stay up north from May until sometime in September and then spend the rest of the year down south.
I recently made an extra trip to my southern home while I was in early September for the sake of a much-needed getaway. I planned to appreciate the sunshine, moderate hot and cold temperatures and simply relax. However, I arrived and realized that the shrubbery was in desperate need of mowing and all of the gardens overgrown with weeds. Inside, there were dead cockroaches to wipe up, dust coating every surface and mildew thriving in the bathrooms. Since the outside temperature was steadily in the upper eighties, I started up the a/c and was thankful for the influx of cool air from the vents. On my second day there, I realized that I was hot, boiling and uncomfortable. I checked and discovered that the control component wasn’t laboring. Replacing the batteries solved nothing. I read online that my control component might fail to operate because of a tripped breaker. After flipping the switch on the breaker panel, the control component lit up and I thought my problems were solved. The reading indicated that the indoor temperature was at 73 degrees. I set the temperature at 73 and heard the a/c beginning up. I went back to work on cleaning the house, expecting it to cool down. When I was still covered in sweat profusely a half an hour later, I took another look at the control component and realized the a/c had accomplished nothing. Although it was making plenty of noise, there was no cool air coming from the vents. I couldn’t get a supplier to show up for repairs until the following day. I ran the overhead ceiling fan on high all night and still found it impossible to sleep.
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