Update 2: 7/4/2026 See changes below
Update 1: 7/1/2026 Added missing QR codes to bottom of post.
June 29, 2026
Hi everyone! It's been an odd couple of weeks. My air-conditioning went out about 2 weeks ago in the midst of the hottest part of summer. I had about 10 gallons of condensed moisture fall out of my bathroom ceiling where the interior A/C unit is in the ceiling. This water issue has been a problem off and on for ages but it's just been occasional drips before. The maintenance guys would tinker with the pic drainage pipe and get it working. But this time I had a flood. About 10 gallons of water ran out the door! So they decided to replace both he interior and exterior unit (which is 20 years old) with a more modern and efficient one. They did give me a temporary unit of the bedroom with a big plastic hose going out the window so I could sleep at night. The rest of the apartment I had to rely on the ceiling fans for cooling. Temps here were in the high 90s-100s F with high humidity.
They had to order a custom unit, I didn't have a heat pump, I have an odd kind of unit. My natural gas water heater doubles as a home heater during cold weather. At the time it was installed that was the cheaper energy solution for heating. Natural gas is something Texas has in abundance. The new heat pumps are probably about the same now given the efficiency of the new units, but that's what this apartment was built with 20 years ago.
The custom ordered unit arrived last Friday, they installed the exterior unit. It's about twice the size of my old one. They also installed the interior unit but were lacking an electrical cable, so they came back Saturday and finished the hookup. What a difference this unit has made! This place gets ice cold very fast!
There is still a hole in my bathroom ceiling, so there's some drywall repair that needs to be done around the bathroom vent. The dry wall has to be completely dry first.
Terran note: The scar on my upper lip has faded a lot since I wrote this๐! I really think it will be hard to notice in 3 months. ๐ฅณ