AC tales

I am back. I seem to be having some trouble with the AC here. I have gone into the furnace room to see water leaking from the bottom of the unit and soaking my collection of boxes of empty beer bottles. At 10 cents a piece, it never seemed worth my time to return them until I had collected many. I am not sure if that is laziness or efficiency, in any event, since they started a deposit system for wine and alcohol bottles, I had collected about ten to twelve of those too.

Saturday, I wake up and check the thermostat as the AC is still running. The temperature is above where I set the thermostat and thought that it could not be. I go down to check on things and I hear "ping" "ping" "ping"......... I open her up and find that droplets of water are dripping down on to the bottom of the metal unit. I wipe up what I can and try to figure it all out. I know that it is condensate and I have blown out the hose, or so I thought. I had not been hearing the sound of water trickling into the drain much this summer. I got it all dried up, put back together and thought that I had cleared out the line.

Because of that, I figured it was time to return the bottles. Bonus number one was that I found three bottles that I had not put in the fridge. I had 3 "free" beers. They were "free" because by my mental accounting, they were bought, paid for, and drunk before (I am not sure how long ago). Now, I have 3 extra beers. Drop right in and enjoy one with me. I got back about $10, so that was like real money at that point.

Sunday rolls around much like Saturday. Again, the AC is on, the temperature is higher than the thermostat setting and I am confused. Again, I go down, only to hear that pinging noise. Fuck! Do I have to call my furnace and AC guy? I take things apart and dry it up. This time I take all the hose connections apart. This time I go to the bottom connection and ram a skewer into it to see if the blockage is there. It was in that area about 5 years ago (during a heat wave around the time of my brother's wedding-Aug 1).

I then go to drain and hear that joyous "drip""drip" "drip, as the condensate goes to the drain, where it is supposed to go. All last night, I listened for that drip as the AC was going. I heard it. I checked this morning, no leaking water to speak of. I solved the problem, for now.

Now, I have my AC when I really need it. Ciao!