God, I miss central AC!
 

My house is cooled with an evaporative cooler, as most of the houses are in the desert. They're incredibly efficient and also incredibly evil to get up and running for the season. I dread this time of year.

* Go to Home Depot and get new pads.
* Climb onto the roof
* Curse about the 3 layers of skin the shingles just ripped off my arms from climbing onto the second peak while my central AC having neighbors watch me.
* Realize it's a long way down. Breathe.
* Take off the cover and toss it to the driveway only to have it land on the dormer instead.
* Oil the motor and drum
* Realize that for the second year in a row you got the wrong size pads (why can't these things be universal?)
* Climb down, (damn shingles), retrieve the cover, return the pads and get the right size.
* Get back onto the roof and attempt to replace the pads.
* Remove another 2 layers of skin
* Realize you forgot to turn on the water.
* Climb down, go to the basement, turn on the water, climb back up (more skin) and wait 30 minutes for the base to fill up.
* Climb down, turn on the pump and return to the roof to check the nozzles are soaking the pads.
* Realize one of them is plugged (ACK!)
* *sigh* climb down (*&#%! shingles!), turn off the pump, and get a piece of wire to unblock the water lines.
* Get back on the friggin roof and clear all the water lines. Entertain the idea of installing metal roofing
* Climb back down (I'm a skeleton now) and turn on the pump for the second time.
* Yep.... back to the roof, verify the pads are wetting down, adjust the float to keep the water from overflowing (again) and take a break.
* Satisfied, climb back down while shouting profanities that would embarrass a sailor as the neighbors watch.
* Remove the insulating pillow, vacuum the chute, replace the diffuser and turn on the cooler.
* Wait 20 minutes and get a jacket because you are now freezing. (it might have something to do with the missing flesh claimed by the roof)
* 1 hour later, discover the float isn't shutting the water off and it's overflowing again.
* Turn off the cooler, shut off the water and decide to deal with it tomorrow. (note: wear long sleeves)

I swear... if it weren't for the fact that I ran this thing maybe 10 times last year and never paid more than $30/month increase on my power, I'd be installing central air.

LOL :D girl you have about had me rolling, I don't know when i have laughed so much..I do hope that you can get it fixed tomorrow

Oh it just keeps getting better.

Hubby comes home just after I typed all that.

Hubby: "Why's it so hot in here? I thought you were going to get the swamp cooler up today?"
Me: *Glare*
Hubby: "What?! It's like an oven in here."
Me: *unamused look*

(He's probably not going to live through the night.)

Is his insurance paid up :D

Why yes! Yes it is, in fact!

Sometimes, I don't know how we manage to coexist. He's the reason I was forced to develop a sense of humor about things like this.

I was laughing so hard reading your posts I can hardly type this. GET THE CENTRAL A-C & be done with this, woman! It's only money. ;) Besides, why are you doing this? This definitely sounds like a honey-do thingy to me.

We don't have ac at work or at home!!! Imagine being busy at work with a bunch of people waiting, watching over you, and no ac. Boo!

LOL thats sounds like a husband. I hope you get it up and running it sounds like warmer temps are on the way

I was cracking up reading your post! And then your husband says it hot well DUH!!!!!

He's owns a landscaping company. He's more of a 2 feet on the ground kinda guy. In fact, I'm starting to question that. In his defense, he doesn't know anything about swamp coolers. Neither do I but I figure things out pretty well.

8am and I've already made 3 trips to the roof. the float valve isn't working. As in, it's not shutting off no matter how much you adjust it. So I drain it to keep it from overfilling and dripping down the chute, into the house.
*sigh* this involves another trip to Home depot for a $5 part. I might as well get a new pump while I'm at it. He's on the ground, pruning and watering plants in the yard and yells up "there's a lot of water coming down!" Ya think? Hmmm I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that I pulled the plug?

Omgosh that's too funny!

Lol, too funny :D! Right now, I'm very grateful for my AC, since it's going to be a billion degrees here today.

Most times, I love doing projects w/ my hubby. And then other times, like when he doesn't realize I'm totally 100% correct and he's not....that's when things get dicey. For him, not me :D.

That made me soooo glad we don't need AC since we stay cool here on the coast.
Your job sounds like a two or three man type of job. Hope you don't need skin grafts. :D

I live in Connecticut and never heard of a swamp cooler. I just got back from visiting my daughter in Albuquerque, NM where the majority of houses do have swamp coolers (luckily my daughter has central air). The houses are very close and you can sit in the living room and see the neighbors roofs. I have to confess that I watched the neighbor on his roof the entire afternoon playing with his swamp cooler and thought central air would be so much easier.

Gurl I'm dying with laughter up here.....thank you soo much...I needed a good laugh after the day i had! BTW what in the world is a swamp cooler??:confused: I thought the States was civilized...up here in Canada we have AC...you might want to check that out! LOL!! Lord that was funny!