My wife keeps our AC turned down to 69 from about April through October every year. After working outside all day I'm freezing with it that cold at home. I'm actually wearing a long sleeve flannel shirt right now to warm up. But luckily she keeps the heater at about 68 during the winter so I'm good there. What drives me crazy is at work during the summer people will be upset that during the evening in full sun when their AC can't cool below 72. But in the fall when the high is about 70 they will have their heater turned up to 80. It will take my breath away when I walk into one of these apartments to do a repair. This is the main reason why I wear a short sleeve shirt under my jacket. I can take off my jacket and deal with the heat in these apartments.
My wife keeps our AC turned down to 69 from about April through October every year. After working outside all day I'm freezing with it that cold at home. I'm actually wearing a long sleeve flannel shirt right now to warm up. But luckily she keeps the heater at about 68 during the winter so I'm good there. What drives me crazy is at work during the summer people will be upset that during the evening in full sun when their AC can't cool below 72. But in the fall when the high is about 70 they will have their heater turned up to 80. It will take my breath away when I walk into one of these apartments to do a repair. This is the main reason why I wear a short sleeve shirt under my jacket. I can take off my jacket and deal with the heat in these apartments.
I haven't worn a long-sleeve or high-collar shirt in literally years. The only times I'm forced to break that practice is during the odd formal occasion (wedding or some such) in which it's basically required of me. Even in so-called "standard room temps", they'll make me so stuffy and uncomfortable that I can't stand it. In my past corporate jobs, I would exclusively wear short-sleeve polos or button-ups and the like. Thankfully, long-sleeves were never required on those jobs. I may not have accepted them.
Even in the winter, I'll put on a jacket over a short-sleeve shirt. I technically have a sweater in my closet but I can't remember the last time I wore it. Too darn hot.
Thankfully the humidity has been down for the past few days. That's what really kills me most. I don't mind dry heat; it's when it's heavy and oppressively humid.
Its going to be close to 100F today in north new jersey and humid as nuts. I hate it. Anyone know somewhere on this earth thats 50-80F with low humidity year round. God that would be paradise
Well AC is fixed, luckily it was a Freon issue. Then I find out I'm going to have to change systems soon as some shit about the type of "juice" it uses will be outlawed in two years. Meh, I'll burn that bridge later. Estimate of $5,200 sounds a bit high to me especially right now.
Its going to be close to 100F today in north new jersey and humid as nuts. I hate it. Anyone know somewhere on this earth thats 50-80F with low humidity year round. God that would be paradise
That would almost be my ideal climate. I'd like a week in the 90s during the summer, and a couple months, right around Christmas, just barely cold enough to snow and stick.
Well AC is fixed, luckily it was a Freon issue. Then I find out I'm going to have to change systems soon as some shit about the type of "juice" it uses will be outlawed in two years. Meh, I'll burn that bridge later. Estimate of $5,200 sounds a bit high to me especially right now.
$5200 for a furnace and ac? Or just ac? If for both thats pretty cheap and id be worried about the quality of the products used. The cheapest my company usually does is around $8000 for furnace/ac change out for the baseline carrier brand stuff
Oh and your system mosy likely uses r22 refrigerant which was banned from production years ago if i remember right. It can still be obtained but its either NOS or recycled. It will only get more expensive as time goes on and the supply dwindles
Well AC is fixed, luckily it was a Freon issue. Then I find out I'm going to have to change systems soon as some shit about the type of "juice" it uses will be outlawed in two years. Meh, I'll burn that bridge later. Estimate of $5,200 sounds a bit high to me especially right now.
$5200 for a furnace and ac? Or just ac? If for both thats pretty cheap and id be worried about the quality of the products used. The cheapest my company usually does is around $8000 for furnace/ac change out for the baseline carrier brand stuff
Oh and your system mosy likely uses r22 refrigerant which was banned from production years ago if i remember right. It can still be obtained but its either NOS or recycled. It will only get more expensive as time goes on and the supply dwindles
I'd think its furnace and ac as that's what I have currently, rather old however.
Yeah after talking around a bit $5200 isn't too bad price wise, but still a hefty chunk after paying out for a custody battle and catching child support up etc, but I have time to deal with that issue at a later date.
Well AC is fixed, luckily it was a Freon issue. Then I find out I'm going to have to change systems soon as some shit about the type of "juice" it uses will be outlawed in two years. Meh, I'll burn that bridge later. Estimate of $5,200 sounds a bit high to me especially right now.
$5200 for a furnace and ac? Or just ac? If for both thats pretty cheap and id be worried about the quality of the products used. The cheapest my company usually does is around $8000 for furnace/ac change out for the baseline carrier brand stuff
Oh and your system mosy likely uses r22 refrigerant which was banned from production years ago if i remember right. It can still be obtained but its either NOS or recycled. It will only get more expensive as time goes on and the supply dwindles
I'd think its furnace and ac as that's what I have currently, rather old however. Yeah after talking around a bit $5200 isn't too bad price wise, but still a hefty chunk after paying out for a custody battle and catching child support up etc, but I have time to deal with that issue at a later date. Thanks for your input tho.
Oh its by no means a cheap thing no matter how you do it. You could also look into gettring ductless units for the house. I recommend Mitsubishi. Again not a cheap solution but that way you can control the temperature heat and cool and a per eoom basis and their electricity useage on those things is laughably small. So you would save on electricity, not have to use a gas heating system, and not have to condition rooms you dont regulary use. Just a suggestion. When you get to the point of dealing with it you can hit me up with any questions and i can answer the best i can.
Well AC is fixed, luckily it was a Freon issue. Then I find out I'm going to have to change systems soon as some shit about the type of "juice" it uses will be outlawed in two years. Meh, I'll burn that bridge later. Estimate of $5,200 sounds a bit high to me especially right now.
$5200 for a furnace and ac? Or just ac? If for both thats pretty cheap and id be worried about the quality of the products used. The cheapest my company usually does is around $8000 for furnace/ac change out for the baseline carrier brand stuff
Oh and your system mosy likely uses r22 refrigerant which was banned from production years ago if i remember right. It can still be obtained but its either NOS or recycled. It will only get more expensive as time goes on and the supply dwindles
I'd think its furnace and ac as that's what I have currently, rather old however. Yeah after talking around a bit $5200 isn't too bad price wise, but still a hefty chunk
What size unit are you talking about at that price?
The tonnage is a pretty big factor in whether $5200 is cheap, reasonable, or even expensive.
The equally significant factor is SEER rating.
I've had 2-ton units replaced on my house (furnace and AC) for as little as $5k.
It's not that they are low quality units, either.
It's that I'm only paying for a lower SEER rating (14) rather than getting sucked into the sales pitch on SEER 19, or higher, when the actual payoff in efficiency between the two isn't usually going to be there. (unless you keep your place COLD and run the hell out of the systems)
Well AC is fixed, luckily it was a Freon issue. Then I find out I'm going to have to change systems soon as some shit about the type of "juice" it uses will be outlawed in two years. Meh, I'll burn that bridge later. Estimate of $5,200 sounds a bit high to me especially right now.
$5200 for a furnace and ac? Or just ac? If for both thats pretty cheap and id be worried about the quality of the products used. The cheapest my company usually does is around $8000 for furnace/ac change out for the baseline carrier brand stuff
Oh and your system mosy likely uses r22 refrigerant which was banned from production years ago if i remember right. It can still be obtained but its either NOS or recycled. It will only get more expensive as time goes on and the supply dwindles
I'd think its furnace and ac as that's what I have currently, rather old however. Yeah after talking around a bit $5200 isn't too bad price wise, but still a hefty chunk after paying out for a custody battle and catching child support up etc, but I have time to deal with that issue at a later date. Thanks for your input tho.
Oh its by no means a cheap thing no matter how you do it. You could also look into gettring ductless units for the house. I recommend Mitsubishi. Again not a cheap solution but that way you can control the temperature heat and cool and a per eoom basis and their electricity useage on those things is laughably small. So you would save on electricity, not have to use a gas heating system, and not have to condition rooms you dont regulary use. Just a suggestion. When you get to the point of dealing with it you can hit me up with any questions and i can answer the best i can.
Our unit cost $8k six years ago - but I suspect we over paid. They shipped up a box of cookies afterwards as a "thank you" gift.
Funny thing, the weather is forecasting thunderstorms for the next four days where I live. It's still going to be int he 90's though so humidity is going to be a bitch.
Well AC is fixed, luckily it was a Freon issue. Then I find out I'm going to have to change systems soon as some shit about the type of "juice" it uses will be outlawed in two years. Meh, I'll burn that bridge later. Estimate of $5,200 sounds a bit high to me especially right now.
That price sounds fair to me. R22 has been on a timer for the last decade or so. There hasn't been any new R22 made in a long time. Converting to R410 is a good investment. You won't notice a difference in performance. 410 runs at a higher pressure so you evaporator coil in the furnace would be a ticking time bomb for springing a leak. It will have to be upgraded to a 410 unit. Add the cost of a 410 condenser, and flushing your pipes with nitrogen to remove the oil from R22, then all the labor. Sounds like a fair price to me. If you had a high pressure line that was too small for 410, then the price would go up even more. Sounds like your lines will be able to be reused. But since you are up and running, I wouldn't worry about it yet. I wouldn't make the change until your current system needs to be charged again. I'd make sure I laid eye-balls on this situation before taking the plunge. AC techs will often tell you that you need freon even though it was a more simple problem that doesn't involve the charge at all, like a capacitor. The blue gauge on the tech's AC manifold will read somewhere around 75 PSI if the system has a good charge. This can move up or down maybe 10 PSI depending on if it is cool or really hot outside.
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My wife keeps our AC turned down to 69 from about April through October every year. After working outside all day I'm freezing with it that cold at home. I'm actually wearing a long sleeve flannel shirt right now to warm up. But luckily she keeps the heater at about 68 during the winter so I'm good there. What drives me crazy is at work during the summer people will be upset that during the evening in full sun when their AC can't cool below 72. But in the fall when the high is about 70 they will have their heater turned up to 80. It will take my breath away when I walk into one of these apartments to do a repair. This is the main reason why I wear a short sleeve shirt under my jacket. I can take off my jacket and deal with the heat in these apartments.
I haven't worn a long-sleeve or high-collar shirt in literally years. The only times I'm forced to break that practice is during the odd formal occasion (wedding or some such) in which it's basically required of me. Even in so-called "standard room temps", they'll make me so stuffy and uncomfortable that I can't stand it. In my past corporate jobs, I would exclusively wear short-sleeve polos or button-ups and the like. Thankfully, long-sleeves were never required on those jobs. I may not have accepted them.
Even in the winter, I'll put on a jacket over a short-sleeve shirt. I technically have a sweater in my closet but I can't remember the last time I wore it. Too darn hot.
Its going to be close to 100F today in north new jersey and humid as nuts. I hate it. Anyone know somewhere on this earth thats 50-80F with low humidity year round. God that would be paradise
That would almost be my ideal climate. I'd like a week in the 90s during the summer, and a couple months, right around Christmas, just barely cold enough to snow and stick.
Well AC is fixed, luckily it was a Freon issue. Then I find out I'm going to have to change systems soon as some shit about the type of "juice" it uses will be outlawed in two years. Meh, I'll burn that bridge later. Estimate of $5,200 sounds a bit high to me especially right now.
$5200 for a furnace and ac? Or just ac? If for both thats pretty cheap and id be worried about the quality of the products used. The cheapest my company usually does is around $8000 for furnace/ac change out for the baseline carrier brand stuff
Oh and your system mosy likely uses r22 refrigerant which was banned from production years ago if i remember right. It can still be obtained but its either NOS or recycled. It will only get more expensive as time goes on and the supply dwindles
Well AC is fixed, luckily it was a Freon issue. Then I find out I'm going to have to change systems soon as some shit about the type of "juice" it uses will be outlawed in two years. Meh, I'll burn that bridge later. Estimate of $5,200 sounds a bit high to me especially right now.
$5200 for a furnace and ac? Or just ac? If for both thats pretty cheap and id be worried about the quality of the products used. The cheapest my company usually does is around $8000 for furnace/ac change out for the baseline carrier brand stuff
Oh and your system mosy likely uses r22 refrigerant which was banned from production years ago if i remember right. It can still be obtained but its either NOS or recycled. It will only get more expensive as time goes on and the supply dwindles
I'd think its furnace and ac as that's what I have currently, rather old however.
Yeah after talking around a bit $5200 isn't too bad price wise, but still a hefty chunk after paying out for a custody battle and catching child support up etc, but I have time to deal with that issue at a later date.
Thanks for your input tho.
Well AC is fixed, luckily it was a Freon issue. Then I find out I'm going to have to change systems soon as some shit about the type of "juice" it uses will be outlawed in two years. Meh, I'll burn that bridge later. Estimate of $5,200 sounds a bit high to me especially right now.
$5200 for a furnace and ac? Or just ac? If for both thats pretty cheap and id be worried about the quality of the products used. The cheapest my company usually does is around $8000 for furnace/ac change out for the baseline carrier brand stuff
Oh and your system mosy likely uses r22 refrigerant which was banned from production years ago if i remember right. It can still be obtained but its either NOS or recycled. It will only get more expensive as time goes on and the supply dwindles
I'd think its furnace and ac as that's what I have currently, rather old however. Yeah after talking around a bit $5200 isn't too bad price wise, but still a hefty chunk after paying out for a custody battle and catching child support up etc, but I have time to deal with that issue at a later date. Thanks for your input tho.
Oh its by no means a cheap thing no matter how you do it. You could also look into gettring ductless units for the house. I recommend Mitsubishi. Again not a cheap solution but that way you can control the temperature heat and cool and a per eoom basis and their electricity useage on those things is laughably small. So you would save on electricity, not have to use a gas heating system, and not have to condition rooms you dont regulary use. Just a suggestion. When you get to the point of dealing with it you can hit me up with any questions and i can answer the best i can.
Well AC is fixed, luckily it was a Freon issue. Then I find out I'm going to have to change systems soon as some shit about the type of "juice" it uses will be outlawed in two years. Meh, I'll burn that bridge later. Estimate of $5,200 sounds a bit high to me especially right now.
$5200 for a furnace and ac? Or just ac? If for both thats pretty cheap and id be worried about the quality of the products used. The cheapest my company usually does is around $8000 for furnace/ac change out for the baseline carrier brand stuff
Oh and your system mosy likely uses r22 refrigerant which was banned from production years ago if i remember right. It can still be obtained but its either NOS or recycled. It will only get more expensive as time goes on and the supply dwindles
I'd think its furnace and ac as that's what I have currently, rather old however. Yeah after talking around a bit $5200 isn't too bad price wise, but still a hefty chunk
What size unit are you talking about at that price?
The tonnage is a pretty big factor in whether $5200 is cheap, reasonable, or even expensive.
The equally significant factor is SEER rating.
I've had 2-ton units replaced on my house (furnace and AC) for as little as $5k.
It's not that they are low quality units, either.
It's that I'm only paying for a lower SEER rating (14) rather than getting sucked into the sales pitch on SEER 19, or higher, when the actual payoff in efficiency between the two isn't usually going to be there. (unless you keep your place COLD and run the hell out of the systems)
Unless it's killed everybody off in the other time zones...
Well AC is fixed, luckily it was a Freon issue. Then I find out I'm going to have to change systems soon as some shit about the type of "juice" it uses will be outlawed in two years. Meh, I'll burn that bridge later. Estimate of $5,200 sounds a bit high to me especially right now.
$5200 for a furnace and ac? Or just ac? If for both thats pretty cheap and id be worried about the quality of the products used. The cheapest my company usually does is around $8000 for furnace/ac change out for the baseline carrier brand stuff
Oh and your system mosy likely uses r22 refrigerant which was banned from production years ago if i remember right. It can still be obtained but its either NOS or recycled. It will only get more expensive as time goes on and the supply dwindles
I'd think its furnace and ac as that's what I have currently, rather old however. Yeah after talking around a bit $5200 isn't too bad price wise, but still a hefty chunk after paying out for a custody battle and catching child support up etc, but I have time to deal with that issue at a later date. Thanks for your input tho.
Oh its by no means a cheap thing no matter how you do it. You could also look into gettring ductless units for the house. I recommend Mitsubishi. Again not a cheap solution but that way you can control the temperature heat and cool and a per eoom basis and their electricity useage on those things is laughably small. So you would save on electricity, not have to use a gas heating system, and not have to condition rooms you dont regulary use. Just a suggestion. When you get to the point of dealing with it you can hit me up with any questions and i can answer the best i can.
Our unit cost $8k six years ago - but I suspect we over paid. They shipped up a box of cookies afterwards as a "thank you" gift.
Our unit cost $8k six years ago - but I suspect we over paid. They shipped up a box of cookies afterwards as a "thank you" gift.
Were the cookies good at least?
Our unit cost $8k six years ago - but I suspect we over paid. They shipped up a box of cookies afterwards as a "thank you" gift.
Were the cookies good at least?
They were tasty
Anyone else top that yet?
According to my phone, it is currently 103 with a "real feel" of 108.
Anyone else top that yet?
Not today, but last week we had a day that was 101 at the peak with a heat index of 120...
Walking outside felt like being in the attic.
Well AC is fixed, luckily it was a Freon issue. Then I find out I'm going to have to change systems soon as some shit about the type of "juice" it uses will be outlawed in two years. Meh, I'll burn that bridge later. Estimate of $5,200 sounds a bit high to me especially right now.
That price sounds fair to me. R22 has been on a timer for the last decade or so. There hasn't been any new R22 made in a long time. Converting to R410 is a good investment. You won't notice a difference in performance. 410 runs at a higher pressure so you evaporator coil in the furnace would be a ticking time bomb for springing a leak. It will have to be upgraded to a 410 unit. Add the cost of a 410 condenser, and flushing your pipes with nitrogen to remove the oil from R22, then all the labor. Sounds like a fair price to me. If you had a high pressure line that was too small for 410, then the price would go up even more. Sounds like your lines will be able to be reused. But since you are up and running, I wouldn't worry about it yet. I wouldn't make the change until your current system needs to be charged again. I'd make sure I laid eye-balls on this situation before taking the plunge. AC techs will often tell you that you need freon even though it was a more simple problem that doesn't involve the charge at all, like a capacitor. The blue gauge on the tech's AC manifold will read somewhere around 75 PSI if the system has a good charge. This can move up or down maybe 10 PSI depending on if it is cool or really hot outside.
Here's the sun a few minutes ago.
93 currently. Have the whole place set up for one giant crossbreeze.
Next week's
I was enjoying the 90's and sunny, but then it got humid, and then it's been storming on and off for the last week. Bring back the 80's!
*Sits back and drinks ice tea (right in front of the running (really well thank you) swamp cooler).*
Life is good.