re: Who else lives in Louisiana and is watching their A/C lose the battle today?

Posted by RT1980

Member since Sep 2020

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Posted on 8/20/23 at 2:18 am to WinnPtiger

Yea who's fricking living room doesn't have windows. Sounds like a sex dungeon

Posted by Bayou Brat

Member since Jul 2021

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Posted on 8/20/23 at 2:20 am to TigerCoon

My mom is our hero. We have a chest freezer in the garage and she's been filling about 20 bags of these things with water and freeze them solid. Each of us would grab a couple of bags to take with us to bed. It's great and keeps us cool all night. It starts to melt after a couple of hours but she have many more in the freezer just waiting to be swapped out.

This post was edited on 8/20/23 at 2:24 am

Posted by josh336

baton rouge

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Posted on 8/20/23 at 7:38 am to Bayou Brat

I dont think sleeping with the condensation from that would be too comfortable to me

Posted by Bullfrog

Running Through the Wet Grass

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Posted on 8/20/23 at 7:45 am to josh336

Plus they look like douche bags.

Posted by KiwiHead

Auckland, NZ

Member since Jul 2014

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Posted on 8/20/23 at 8:37 am to Lsuhoohoo

Still, 77-78 in these temps is not a horrible output. You figure at 105 outside you still are getting a 25-30 degree reduction. 30-32 degrees I find is the max output of most central units.

This weather is going to challenge your A/C no matter the size. I've not seen it this persistently hot without appreciable rain ......maybe ever or at least since 1980 when Bob Breck did the weather one night in shirt sleeves, shorts and sandals

Posted by biglego

San Francisco

Member since Nov 2007

84745 posts

Posted on 8/20/23 at 10:45 am to mikelbr

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DSLD homes are looking mighty fricking fine this Summer. Our cookie cutter piece of shite house by OT standards is incredibly energy efficient. $127 'lectric bill last month. AC cools to 72° in 100° with no issues nor tree cover.

Yeah I’m loving my non-custom house. 4700 sf chilling at 74 all day with the AC even cutting off. Of course I’m also smart enough to not try to keep the upstairs at 72 all day. That’s just dumb. Set it at 75.

Posted by tigerfoot

Alexandria

Member since Sep 2006

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Posted on 8/20/23 at 10:55 am to biglego

Any advice on door seals? Our garage entry door is near the front unit thermostat. I can see light coming thru. I want to find a great gasket that will block the air but still allow door to bolt without shoving in it.

Posted by Suntiger

STG or BR or somewhere else

Member since Feb 2007

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Posted on 8/20/23 at 11:11 am to TigerCoon

My A/C and I are fighting the good fight. Ceiling fan on in the family room, window a/c in the bedroom and the upstairs stays on 82. I turn it down to 70 in the morning to cool off the house and I’ll put it on 73 or 74 during the day. It keeps up, but 4:30/5:00 is a struggle. And it works to get down to 72 by 8:00.

The filter probably could have gone another month, but just replaced it anyway.

Not looking forward to this next week.

Posted by dallastigers

Member since Dec 2003

10613 posts

Posted on 8/20/23 at 11:45 am to Suntiger

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The filter probably could have gone another month, but just replaced it anyway.

I just replaced my filters early as well about an hour ago. I also went down a few MERVS from what I usually use. I will go back to regular filtering level in a couple of weeks.

This post was edited on 8/20/23 at 12:03 pm