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Last weekend was super hot and humid.
On Friday and Saturday, it was 90 degrees in the office!
The highest I can remember it getting inside, in the last 10 years, was 88 degrees.
The building once had A/C but the previous pastor had more important bills to pay, so we never got it fixed.
One company gave us an estimate of $30,000 because of the size of the building, (but they also wanted to re-do everything from scratch.)
I think a volunteer has recently been looking at fixing the fan-box-things outside the building, and using the existing ducts.
I didn't get much done with the cars, because it was too hot to go anywhere.
It did rain on Sunday. After I washed all the cars.
I noticed the windshield wipers on the green car looked a little wonky.
When I tried them, they aren't really touching the window at all:
On Tuesday I went to see Don about the getting the A/C to work on the Green car.
(I meant to ask him about the wipers but I forgot.)
This is a picture of the air conditioning parts.
First he pulled out a little filter-looking thing.
It came out of hole A.
It is something that converts the A/C coolant liquid into cool air.
It should be shiny and clean, but it was all gunked up. Here is the dirty one:
Here's a blurry picture of the new one:
He used a vacuum to see if the system would hold air.
Kind of like an air compressor, but in reverse.
That seems to be working, it didn't seem to have any leaks.
We spent a good hour looking for a small piece of plastic that would allow the can of refrigerant to be pumped into the system.
For a little while the air coming out felt a tiny bit cold.
The can-like part C in the picture at top, is supposed to get cold and sweaty, and it didn't.
There's other parts that might be gunked up, but the whole system will have to come out, and that's another day's work.
Oh boy!Maybe a year from now, this will all be a funny memory?
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