We living in an older home. It was built in 1927! It’s well built but overall I don’t think the previous occupants did much to change the home. It’s heated with oil so we have an old oil furnace and of course that means no built in air conditioning. I’m sure we could add air conditioning but I think we’ll be replacing the furnace soon anyway so we might as well wait.
So … we use window air conditioners to keep our house cool in the summer. Unfortunately when my husband put them in earlier this month during the heat wave that we had here we discovered that one of the air conditioners (the cheapest one we bought) was no longer producing cold air. It worked more like a fan instead. We figured that the ac compressor is probably shot.
Since it was a cheap unknown brand air conditioner we decided that rather than try to repair it we’d just replace it with a new one so we bought a new air conditioner this weekend. Good price too. Luckily it’s cool here right now because we still haven’t installed the new air conditioner. The other one will cool the house, but two work better for this house.
Does anyone else still use clunky heavy window air conditioners?
No air conditioners here – we can’t afford the hike in the electricity bill. But lots of people in these apartments do, and I’m not sure they have much of a choice. On the plus side, they’ve all got their windows closed, so we don’t have to worry about being too loud.
LOL, they’re not “old fashioned” here! Where I live it’s rare to have a place with air conditioning. Pretty much only the high high end homes have it unless you get it put in yourself,and usually if you’re going to add a/c it’s a window unit. Honestly our homes need both a very good source of heat as well as a/c. Our temperatures go from as low as -35 to -40(celcius) in winter to as warm as 30 to 35(celcius) in summer…and everything in between LOL. Last summer we had a month of temps 30 or higher, it was not fun, we went for a ride in the car almost every night with the a/c blasting just to get some relief!
Jolene I see that you are in Calgary? I’m in Toronto and our temp range is something like that too … well -35 with windchill anyway and yes 40 C with humidity. We had a really hot summer last year too and tons of snow this winter. We don’t normally get a lot of snow that stays but we were hit much harder than normal this winter. Not complaining – it was good for my plants to actually have some winter protection and my garden is perhaps the best it’s ever been thanks to our heavy snow winter.
Our Cars AC broke down about 4 years ago and it needs a major and very expensive repair so we’re living without it.
I just hate the window air conditioners. Our house faces North and when we put the air conditioners in it blocks out some of the light we get in the house.
Thanks for your visit!
Liz when we lived in an apartment for the first while we could put an air conditioner in without any rent increase so of course pretty much everyone did it. However in the last two years or so that we were in the apartment they decided to add a surcharge if you were using an air conditioner – I think it was something like $200 for the summer – way more than it would have cost for the electricity I’m sure so we lived without AC. Luckily our apartment, like our house faced North so closing the curtains during the day helped keep it cool.
It’s so hot and humid here and being sick with Crohns I’m not sure I could live without ac in the summer. I hate the window air conditioners but we need them.
We just replaced the window air-conditioner for a split unit.