The thing that ate my air conditioning
- Jered
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Re: The thing that ate my air conditioning
90% of house dust is human skin...
The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
- 308Mike
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Re: The thing that ate my air conditioning
Chris, I completely agree that I'm sure some of your breathing problems were aggravated by that thing. Regarding the suggestion to not use the more expensive air filters and instead use the cheap ones, I disagree. There's NO WAY the cheap filter is going to catch the same amount of crap in the air if you use a thin, cheap filter.
We're currently using a filter with a density of 1085 at our home, and even at every two months, the buildup on the filter is VERY obvious. The only way using the cheap filters would come anywhere close to properly filtering the air is if there was a way to ensure ALL the house air was recirculated repeatedly and often through the thin filter - giving the filter MANY opportunities to catch the crap floating around in the air. Otherwise it just gets blown out in all the rooms and settles as dust & dirt to be wiped or vacuumed up.
I think you should bring this up to the previous HVAC people you had come out and ask them what they are going to do to make it right, since you OBVIOUSLY wasted your money on their services. See how much they like bad BBB references and winding up in small claims.
We're currently using a filter with a density of 1085 at our home, and even at every two months, the buildup on the filter is VERY obvious. The only way using the cheap filters would come anywhere close to properly filtering the air is if there was a way to ensure ALL the house air was recirculated repeatedly and often through the thin filter - giving the filter MANY opportunities to catch the crap floating around in the air. Otherwise it just gets blown out in all the rooms and settles as dust & dirt to be wiped or vacuumed up.
I think you should bring this up to the previous HVAC people you had come out and ask them what they are going to do to make it right, since you OBVIOUSLY wasted your money on their services. See how much they like bad BBB references and winding up in small claims.
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- Netpackrat
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Re: The thing that ate my air conditioning
Yuck.
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- HTRN
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I would go after the $%$#^T$ bastards that you paid for the job and then didn't do it.
I've had it up to here with service companies who cut corners, even when you're paying for the service...
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I've had it up to here with service companies who cut corners, even when you're paying for the service...
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- 308Mike
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Re: The thing that ate my air conditioning
With Kimberly's health problems, if they pulled that shiite at our house, I'd have the previous companies in court (of course, this is based on MY current workload and free time - if I couldn't hire someone at a decent rate).
Unfortunately, there are times and circumstances which it's best to taker your losses and go on with your lives - and those sometimes sting, 'cause you'll ALWAYS wonder..........
Unfortunately, there are times and circumstances which it's best to taker your losses and go on with your lives - and those sometimes sting, 'cause you'll ALWAYS wonder..........
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
- Netpackrat
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Re: The thing that ate my air conditioning
At the very least, creatively use the object in question to exact a little payback.HTRN wrote:I would go after the $%$#^T$ bastards that you paid for the job and then didn't do it.
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- mekender
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Re: The thing that ate my air conditioning
document yourself putting it back in the a/c then call them back out and make sure you record the entire process of them not cleaning things out... hidden cameras would work nicely...Netpackrat wrote:At the very least, creatively use the object in question to exact a little payback.HTRN wrote:I would go after the $%$#^T$ bastards that you paid for the job and then didn't do it.
maybe the state fraud investigators would like a copy of the tapes?
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- workinwifdakids
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I'd fill the insides of their work trucks with fill dirt, but hey - that's just me.
And may I say, from a moral point of view, I think there can be no justification for shoving snack cakes up your action.
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- Steamforger
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I bet that hairball could make one strong pot of coffee 

- SoupOrMan
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Nail it to their front door with a note saying "You missed this stuff twice kthxbye" or something similar.
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