HVAC Repair Tips for Homeowners

The seller was offering the cabin for a shockingly low price.

I asked him what the catch was, plus he explained that the previous tenant had been a hoarder, plus the place was still filled with many tons of junk that had been collected over a series of years.

It was worth him selling the place for a song, just so he didn’t have to clean everything up – that’s how nasty it was inside. I took a look around, however thought that for the cheap price I was getting I could handle the physical work of cleaning it out. At that point I did not suppose about the dead creature lodged in the air ducts, even though I would find out soon enough. After I unloaded the cabin itself, I had to dig a little deeper plus get into the attic, the basement, plus the ductwork. I inspected the temperature control, plus took care of it out by trying the heating plus then the air conditioning, both systems engaged, however no air came out of any of the air vents. I dislinkd the grating from the air vents plus saw that the ducts beyond were stuffed full of trash plus expired food. Once I started to empty the air ducts, I came across the first of many dead creatures, which had been lured in by the spoiled food. Some of these mouse plus squirrel carcasses were 2 years old, plus totally desiccated, care about little creature mummies hidden inside the ductwork. If I had it to do over again, I would skip buying this house, even at such a low cost, plus invest the currency into my cabin Heating plus A/C system.

 

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I have managed a handful of rental properties for many years now, and i started doing it right after I retired, as a way to make extra currency plus also to keep myself busy! Retirement can be boring, so it’s nice to have hobbies, plus when those hobbies make currency, so much the better! Nine times out of ten, if not moreso, the guests who rent my apartments plus houses are actually nice people, plus leave the place in the same condition they found it; Occasionally there are bad tenants plus tenants, however, plus recently I had a single such tenant, who left the entire lodge, plus the , in awful condition! Apparently this person believed that air conditionings are powered by magic, plus thought they could make the place as chilly as he wanted it to be, but he must have been on drugs, because what rational person thinks the air conditioning can make it 32 degrees inside? When the air conditioning machine wouldn’t get chilly enough, he tried to tune it up himself, with disastrous results.

• I assume he was on drugs, even though I don’t suppose for sure because after he ruined the central Heating plus A/C plan he packed up his stuff plus left in the middle of the night.

I called an Heating plus A/C tech I have used before to get an bid on the cost to replace the unit, plus then charged the credit card the tenant had used for those costs; A modern Heating plus A/C plan was going to cost me 2 thoUSAnd bucks, plus the tenant’s card maxed out at many hundred bucks, so I’m screwed.

 

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I feel that it’s happened to all of us at 1 time or another.

You let someone into your house, plus they steal from you. It could be a acquaintance at a party, or a worker you hire to come plus perform a service for you. When you invite someone into your home, there is a social contract involved, plus so when that man violates the contract plus steals from you, it is shocking plus frustratedting. This happened to myself and others just recently, plus I’m still dealing with it. In this case the issue was severalfold, because our trust was violated, plus I lost our a/c in the process. It sincerely never occurred to myself and others that it was even possible to steal an a/c, even the smallest 1s are quite dense plus heavy! The spare home office in our home used to be a 1-car garage, plus when it was converted it still wasn’t attached to the central Heating plus A/C system. Instead of adding current air ducts to the main system, I decided to buy a window-mounted component for the room. It was many hundred dollars cheaper to get this kind of AC component instead of remastering the air ducts. After this party the other night I went into the spare home office, plus saw that the a/c was no longer standing in the window! The AC component had been unclogged from the inside, plus then unbolted from the outside, so whoever had taken it was someone at our party! That a/c cost myself and others many hundred bucks, plus I want it back!

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My partner and I run a small company of renting beachside bungalows to tourists.

It is seasonal work, as you might imagine, with 6 weeks of heavy company followed by 6 weeks of almost no company at all.

During the tied up season the two of us both stay booked always. My partner handles the bookings and the paperwork, while I am the handyman and make sure all of our properties stay in tip-top condition. Last Summer was our second year in business, and our busiest season to date! There were a lot of complications, though, including a rash of system thefts that cost us a lot of money. You know how in major hotels the rooms all have sizable systems built right into the walls? Those are genuinely costly, however worth it because they are the best for cooling down a small space, and they are almost impossible to steal. In our beachside bungalows the walls are too thin, and the power grid too weak, to support all of those Heating and A/C units. Instead the two of us use the small, portable systems that you can mount in a window using simple brackets. These are low in cost and provide reasonable cooling for the guests, so everybody wins! Recently the two of us l received the major negative of these units, that being how small they are makes them genuinely straight-forward to steal. It is not our guests stealing the systems, of course, it is people stealing the units from the outside. Being mounted in the window sill means that the systems are exposed to the outside, and straight-forward to rip off the brackets.

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