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daveamkrayoguy

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Finally a May that feels like MAY! --Late JUNE, actually...

 

After all that Winter Vortex we'd had (& I still can't get rid of my cold or cough)...

 

But I don't like opening my windows, and I notice not too many other people in my neighborhood do either... And so far nobody else has theirs on yet either...

 

Another problem is the wife always complains about feeling cold...

 

 

-- Dave

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turned on the new central this morning, wanted to keep it cool before the heat hit.....was actually dying to see how it works, so far so good, super quiet, but still didn't expect to turn it on yet...

it didn't come on until around noon....that's when the heat hit into the 90's, actually felt hotter than that....and this is only day 1, were expecting these temps for at least 2 more days.....

forget Spring and Fall, we go from one extreme to the next....
 
No!

At least not in this house. Just isn't that warm in our part of New York, that is my opinion anyway.

However going by what one has seen/heard whilst walking about others feel differently. Let them have at it, that is what I say. Con Edison isn't giving away anything and see no reason to pay triple digit electric bills any sooner than is truly necessary.
 
Well, my heat kicked on this morning with the thermostat set at 62. Closed the windows up now as its too chilly to even use the BBQ. Not worth putting a/c in for just 1 day. Maybe next month. Usually cools right off at night here off the lake and a window fan works fine. Once the humidity hits, a/c will be running, trust me.
 
With it getting into the low 90s here today the central a/c was turned on this morning.
Just last week we had the furnace on in the morning and evening.
Hope this heat lady's only a day or two so I can turn the a/c off and save some electricity for the rest of the month
 
Ran mine the last 2 days.

Yogitunes, did you get a new HVAC system and if so, what brand

 

Hi frig!
 
The A/C has been on at home for the past few days now. Sadly I'm not getting to enjoy the warmth (in the 80s) as I'm in Colorado where it's been cloudy, in the 40s and raining. And yes the heat is on where I'm staying. I'm kinda pissed cuz it was such a cold spring at home and now I'm stuck in cold again.
 
Barely hitting low 80's here outside and I turned off the heat yesterday morning after the heat cycled on upstairs with the thermostat set to 66°.

Have been running two old window air conditioners just a few hours since to get rid of the humidity, will probably add one or two more as it gets warmer.

It's still cooler upstairs even if I didn't run the air conditioner in my bedroom today, the temperature upstairs didn't reach 68°. I started the air conditioner in the kitchen when the temp reached 72° this afternoon and I shut it off about two hours ago and the temperature went up from 69° to 72° again. [this post was last edited: 5/17/2017-22:22]

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93 Degrees in Springfield, Mass. today

so I put in the 3 Friedrich window units. One more day of heat tomorrow, so yes, they are running already.

It was only a week ago that I had to turn the heat back on, because of how cold and damp it was.
 
So far no complaints about being "Too Cold" & she--

--doesn't even know that it's ON!!!!

 

Well, it took a while for the thermostat to go from 65º / 83º when I did switch it to A/C, to finally read what it says now...

 

I'd wished I'd made the change when it read 71º / 79<span style="font-size: 12pt;">º, but now what a relief I can turn the Temp. UP, now, & the house will feel cozy & the wife, hopefully in every case, won't complain...</span>

 

 

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">-- Dave</span>

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I keep it about

65 to 68 in the summer, about 68 in winter, we burned less than 250 gallons of oil this winter, but you can bet the power bill will make up for it this Summer!
 
"forget Spring and Fall, we go from one extreme to the next...."

It feel like November & March weather (45-55F, cloudy, raw, chill clings to your bones) starts earlier and runs later every year. At the same time summer comes earlier and stays longer.

A/c in our building turned on today. Using the a/c at Eric's for the first time this evening.
 
I'm in Michigan at my mom's Dave and these brick Allen Park houses get hot by the afternoon so  I got their a/c ready for the season for them.  Took off the outside cover, cleaned the condenser, changed the dampers from winter to summer and changed the filter.  We were quite comfortable at about 77 in no time.  I sure wish my house had central air, I'm going to have to bump it up the list of things to do.  
 
the A/C system is a PAYNE....

I was able to bump up slightly from a 3 ton to a 3.5.....the inside unit was an "A" frame, now its a "N" shape design, and roughly 6 inches taller, also allows access for opening up and cleaning

this Father and Son team installed it....well, actually I met them last Fall as the son bought a Kitchen Aid washer/dryer off of me......

I gave him a good deal on the set....and he gave me a fantastic deal on this unit and install.....he also offered, if this is not going to work for this house, he would take this back, and offer a deal on a complete heat/AC switch out, bumping upwards to a 4 or 5 ton unit...

they also showed me how to braze copper lines, without the use of cleaning and flux.....that lesson was worth more to me than you know....

all I know so far, its 90 outside, no shade or trees, the sun bakes on this house, and inside its at 74, and it is cycled off at the moment...well, its been three hours so far, and has not come back on.....

the original unit ran 24/7 and barely kept up......we had electric bills close to 1000.00 a month...

but for right now, I am a happy camper...better than I expected

the only thing with central air systems, unlike window units, you can't really shut off rooms or registers, it will throw the unit into havoc, best to keep everything open full blast...no matter what, you have to cool the entire house...
 
91 here at the moment, and the t-storm clouds are brewing...

but we hate a/c, generally, so the box fan is on low next to me. We have 7 of them and use them in every room we inhabit here in central NY throughout summer.

In VT we have a new high-tech Mitsubishi Cold Climate heat pump that heats well down to minus 15F, it'll be interesting to see how well it cools, though we probably won't use it much in summer, if at all; we prefer the breeze off the lake. But no doubt the kids will use a/c when they are there.
 
Payne, IIRC, is a division of UTC, aka makers of Carrier and owners of ICP HVAC stuff.

 

So long as it is not microchannel, you should be fine
 
My 1990 ish

2.5 ton Bryant is doing fine (knock wood).

Since we are talking A/C, what is a microchannel Ben?
I also noticed our neighbor has a second unit installed. it is not brand new looking. The green one in the back was also running today.
At first I thought it was a heat pump. maybe it is, for a grow room in his basement perhaps?
he has the lines going through a basement block window vent.
 
It was in the high 80s yesterday so I had to turn on the ductless A/C unit in the bedroom when I went to bed. I set the timer for 1 hour as I just wanted to cool the bedroom down but at 2:30 am I had to get up and turn the A/C back on. It was humid here today and we had a downpour this afternoon. It is supposed to go down to about 35 F tonight (a couple hours north of here it was snowing this afternoon) and a high of only about 60 for the next several days. I am having another ductless split A/C unit installed tomorrow in the main living area.

Gary
 
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