Air Conditioning

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Air Conditioning
Topic Started: May 27 2016, 08:37 AM (979 Views)
Dialtone	Jun 1 2016, 02:27 PM Post #31
Gold Star Member Posts: 7,190 Group: Member Member #721 Joined: April 1, 2010	Our house has a larger unit than required for the square footage, so no problem making it uncomfortably cool in the summer.. if you want. This causes some disagreements as we are always "discussing" what the proper inside temperature in summer should be. I like it about 22C, my wife would like to make it a meat locker. My DIL calls our son the thermostat nazi , he controls the temperature in their house and likes it 20C all year round, most everyone who visits has to wear a sweater when it's 30C or - 30C outside. Must be some genetic defect, since it's way too cool for me but still not cool enough for my wife's preferences. :cold: (and she's past the hot flash stage in life laugh123 )



haili	Jun 1 2016, 11:45 PM Post #32
Gold Star Member Posts: 7,083 Group: Member Member #387 Joined: September 15, 2006	I find the upstairs bedroom stuffy with the a/c on. The furnace guy told me to shut the basement and downstairs vents to get a stronger blast of air upstairs and I still use a fan in that bedroom just to circulate the air.



Trotsky	Jun 2 2016, 12:40 AM Post #33
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	Dialtone Jun 1 2016, 02:27 PM Our house has a larger unit than required for the square footage, so no problem making it uncomfortably cool in the summer.. if you want. This causes some disagreements as we are always "discussing" what the proper inside temperature in summer should be. I like it about 22C, my wife would like to make it a meat locker. My DIL calls our son the thermostat nazi , he controls the temperature in their house and likes it 20C all year round, most everyone who visits has to wear a sweater when it's 30C or - 30C outside. Must be some genetic defect, since it's way too cool for me but still not cool enough for my wife's preferences. :cold: (and she's past the hot flash stage in life laugh123 ) I think even 22C (71.6F) is a bit too cool Summer or Winter. If I had unlimited assets I would set up a system that gives me 23.3C (74F) Winter and Summer automatically with a perfect 45% humidity without my having to touch a single switch or dial. Naturally it would have to be a forced air system, rather than steam convectors and I would uber-filter the shit out of it to make dust an un-fond memory. This is pretty much the temperature and humidity we keep now 12 months of the year but not without a bit of fancy dancing on my part. The dust catcher is the furniture and floors. The only time as an adult when I thought maybe there really WAS a God was when I bought my first air-conditioned CAR (1968 Chevvy Impala.) I thought I had died and gone to heaven. Edited by Trotsky, Jun 3 2016, 05:58 AM.



campy	Jun 2 2016, 09:27 AM Post #34
Handyman Extraordinaire Posts: 28,720 Group: no politics Member #204 Joined: February 2, 2006	Air conditioning in cars works damn well good. Set it and forget it.



wildie	Jun 3 2016, 01:47 AM Post #35
Veteran Member Posts: 12,173 Group: Member Member #442 Joined: October 11, 2006	campy Jun 2 2016, 09:27 AM Air conditioning in cars works damn well good. Set it and forget it. I traded my Dodge Caravan (2005) in for a GMC Montana because of the failing a/c. I bought the vehicle new and had a/c problems from the get-go. It was continuously in the repair shop and when the warantee ran out I got rid of it quickly. The repair bills would have been impossible. I now have a Toyota RAV4 (assembled in Canada) Got tired of North American engineered cars.



swing	Jun 3 2016, 04:54 AM Post #36
swing Posts: 9,979 Group: Member Member #359 Joined: August 18, 2006	I now have a Toyota RAV4 (assembled in Canada) Got tired of North American engineered cars. My daughter has a 2009 and is very happy with it. They bought it new somewhere in the burbs of T.O.



wildie	Jun 4 2016, 04:57 AM Post #37
Veteran Member Posts: 12,173 Group: Member Member #442 Joined: October 11, 2006	swing Jun 3 2016, 04:54 AM I now have a Toyota RAV4 (assembled in Canada) Got tired of North American engineered cars. My daughter has a 2009 and is very happy with it. They bought it new somewhere in the burbs of T.O. So far, I'm happy with mine. I expected better gas milage, but its OK! The 2.5 litre engine uses about the same as did my 3.9 litre GMC Montana!



wildie	Jun 4 2016, 04:57 AM Post #38
Veteran Member Posts: 12,173 Group: Member Member #442 Joined: October 11, 2006	Double Post? Edited by wildie, Jun 4 2016, 05:06 AM.



Trotsky	Jun 4 2016, 05:24 AM Post #39
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	wildie Jun 4 2016, 04:57 AM swing Jun 3 2016, 04:54 AM I now have a Toyota RAV4 (assembled in Canada) Got tired of North American engineered cars. My daughter has a 2009 and is very happy with it. They bought it new somewhere in the burbs of T.O. So far, I'm happy with mine. I expected better gas milage, but its OK! The 2.5 litre engine uses about the same as did my 3.9 litre GMC Montana! Is that the same as the Chevrolet Montana? Edited by Trotsky, Jun 4 2016, 05:25 AM.



wildie	Jun 5 2016, 09:12 AM Post #40
Veteran Member Posts: 12,173 Group: Member Member #442 Joined: October 11, 2006	Trotsky Jun 4 2016, 05:24 AM wildie Jun 4 2016, 04:57 AM Quoting limited to 2 levels deepGMC Montana! Is that the same as the Chevrolet Montana? It the one and the same vehicle, only the GMC version is called a Montana. The Chevrolet version has a different name but I forget what it is?



Trotsky	Jun 6 2016, 02:28 AM Post #41
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Montana (I couldn't find any links to GMC Montana,) Edited by Trotsky, Jun 6 2016, 02:28 AM.



wildie	Jun 6 2016, 02:47 AM Post #42
Veteran Member Posts: 12,173 Group: Member Member #442 Joined: October 11, 2006	Trotsky Jun 6 2016, 02:28 AM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Montana (I couldn't find any links to GMC Montana,) Following your link, no wonder there's confusion! "The Chevrolet Montana is a front-wheel drive coup� utility sold by Chevrolet in Latin America and emerging markets." Here in Canada the Montana was offered by the Pontiac division of General Motors. On my Montana it was emblazoned with a GMC badge on the front and rear. For Chevrolet dealers the badges were different and there was less chrome.



blizzard	Jun 7 2016, 03:54 AM Post #43
Gold Star Member Posts: 4,152 Group: Member Member #1,012 Joined: July 8, 2013	We use fans when it is too hot. Yesterday we nearly had a duel, thank goodness we do not have any foils, I kept running away with our tall fan whenever I was working in my room, or I would set it to not oscillate. Our new place has a heat pump that works as an AC for warm weather. I shudder to think of the hydro cost. Must look up how they work.



Trotsky	Jun 7 2016, 04:04 AM Post #44
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	blizzard Jun 7 2016, 03:54 AM We use fans when it is too hot. Yesterday we nearly had a duel, thank goodness we do not have any foils, I kept running away with our tall fan whenever I was working in my room, or I would set it to not oscillate. Our new place has a heat pump that works as an AC for warm weather. I shudder to think of the hydro cost. Must look up how they work. Pretty much as an air conditioner it works just like any other central air unit. For Winter use however it must gain heat from the outside. Therefore the evaporator (outside) must be much colder than the air. In very cold and/or damp weather the unit will freeze up and stop functioning unless: 1. You supply heat to melt the ice or 2. You switch the VERY Expensive resistance heating, That's when the hydro bill will break your back. Heat Pump heating is for areas that are very dry and have modedrate Winter temperatures: like Southern California. WHen conditions are right, you have moderately low electricity bills. We had a heat pump in New Jersey...dreadful idea and landlord replaced them for resistance heaters $$$$$. Cr�me de la cr�me: With low natural gas prices you can get a gas powered heat pump. Delightful.



Darcie	Jun 7 2016, 04:20 AM Post #45
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	I had a heat pump in Montreal in one of the houses I owed. My bill was less than that of my neighbors who heated with gas and had regular air.



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