Is anyone else dying of the heat wave???

wow wish our hum.was 35%.we have been running in the high 90's with 80% hum.Feels like a bath house working outside.Just a reminder though and check those filters in your air handler/furnace.Lot of run time equals getting dirtier quickly!

Pretty warm here. Central air won't turn on and no money to have it looked at.

Finally got so uncomfortable I took a cool shower. While in shower the power went off, then my tank ran dry, but not before I was done showering. So I half dressed and went next door to finish.

Did a search on my phone after and find there's a fire next city over which knocked out several substations. Idiots setting off fireworks, lit up a tree and it spread into power lines. I hope they get theirs.

Might see if I can find a cheap evaporative cooler. Was thinking if I add blocks of ice that would cool it even more.

Originally Posted by IdahoScrapper

Might see if I can find a cheap evaporative cooler. Was thinking if I add blocks of ice that would cool it even more.

cheap? them things are $500 now (used to be 39.95!) I scrapped one that didn't look any good about 5 years ago, then last summer it hit 112+ most every day here (110 by 10 am!). 115 was the highest i saw (on my, mostly accurate, thermometer ; ) but a neighbor told me one "cooler" than that day, theirs read 118. I pulled one off of Dad's old trailer but the bottom was rusted out (wished I'd had the scrapped one back), I figured a way to use a side from an old chest freezer to build it a new bottom, but the saw i needed to use to cut it went bad too. Most afternoons I just had a simple fan blowing hot air from a mostly shaded window, and sitting in front of that, mostly while online ; ), was about all that got me through last summers heat. It isn't as hot here as it was last year, so far, but we still have the worst part of summer yet ahead, and it can go from bad to worse, overnight

Originally Posted by Bear

cheap? them things are $500 now (used to be 39.95!) I scrapped one that didn't look any good about 5 years ago, then last summer it hit 112+ most every day here (110 by 10 am!). 115 was the highest i saw (on my, mostly accurate, thermometer ; ) but a neighbor told me one "cooler" than that day, theirs read 118. I pulled one off of Dad's old trailer but the bottom was rusted out (wished I'd had the scrapped one back), I figured a way to use a side from an old chest freezer to build it a new bottom, but the saw i needed to use to cut it went bad too. Most afternoons I just had a simple fan blowing hot air from a mostly shaded window, and sitting in front of that, mostly while online ; ), was about all that got me through last summers heat. It isn't as hot here as it was last year, so far, but we still have the worst part of summer yet ahead, and it can go from bad to worse, overnight

I know - new they are ridiculous. That's why I would try to find a used one that wasn't all rusted out. Did a search on CL just now...people are crazy.

I may tinker with the A/C. Just hope I don't pull a Hoss and fry my tater tots.

get to googling that central air, Idaho, use the make and model number, and keywords of the problem it has. You might find a discussion on an HVAC forum about what it could be, maybe even simple enough to fix