one thing after another

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Originally Posted by GoodOlBoy

well monday I am home sick with bad sinuses and the ac goes out at 10 am. at 5:30PM or so the ac guy finally gets a circuit board in the outside unit replaced and the ac starts working again. Wed my wife calls me at 3:30 pm the unit has blown the circuit breaker. I have her reset it, no cold air. I take Thursday off and wait until 7:30pm at night before the guys show back up. They check the unit. It is on a 20 amp breaker. It should be drawing 10 amps or so. It starts up drawing 54 amps. 45 seconds in it hits 67 amps and the compressor fails 2 minutes in it hits 97 amps of draw and the breaker throws. . . . . Yeah the 20 amp breaker doesn't throw until 97 amps are pulled. The unit is an r22 unit. I can get a replacement r22 unit for around 2 grand, but my inside coil apparently is going bad, and you cannot get a replacement r22 coil anymore. SO they are showing up today to install my new 410 unit, inside, outside, etc at the nice little cost of $4grand. . . . . . . . crap. . . . .

GoodOlBoy

GOB,

That is life. It is always one thing after another. Tried fixing the Sonata this summer and it was a disaster. So, we went out and bought a new car. Spent an entire weekend scraping, prepping, and painting our 2 car garage door. I had hit it with the house one night about a month ago to wash all the dirt off and the paint came off with the dirt. Now, I need to paint the trim, bay window, and door on the front of the place. Plan on spending a couple weekends doing that.

The front passenger side wheel, CV joint, or what have you is making a horrible sound on the Taurus so I have to look into that. Back in March, in the middle of tax season, the stupid ICP sensor went bad on my truck. The dealer wanted $900 to replace it so I spent 6 hours under the hood fixing it. Then, in May I went to change the fuel filter and cross threaded it. Cost $240 to have the dealer fix that one.

The doc found a nodule on my wife's thyroid on my birthday last week and thinks it might be cancer. She went for an ultrasound today. I was extremely sick for 2 months last September/October. My daughter almost died on my son's first birthday in May because she ate a peanut butter Lindt truffle and is highly allergic to peanuts (That is an extremely long story that makes me cry a lot and which ultimately was my fault with several lapses in judgment/memory occurring altogether to lead to the incident). I am sure I could pile a bunch more onto the list, but I will leave it at that.

Sometimes, a $4,000 A/C repair bill isn't a big deal. Kind of like a $900 ER bill for my daughter versus a funeral. I was extremely happy to pay that $900. Best $900 I have ever spent. I was happy to pay $200 to the allergist a couple weeks later to find out that she is extremely allergic to peanuts, pistachios, and almonds and generally allergic to all tree nuts. Also learned that she is so allergic to peanuts that she will never grow out of it.

Sorry to hear about your troubles, but glad to hear that it is just an A/C repair bill and no longer your health. I would paint my garage every weekend of the year and work on the cars too if I never had to go through anything like this thyroid nodule issue with my wife, my daughter's allergic reaction to the peanuts, and my illness from last September/October. Yep, repairs and maintenance are cake compared to health issues.