Home, Hot Home

 When we walked into our home at about midnight on July 30th after a very long day of travel, we were overwhelmed with the heat.  We both said in unison, "The cooler is broken."  I checked the thermostat.  It was about 97 degrees in our home.  AHHH!  Not quite the welcome home we were hoping for!  We had set the thermostat for about 78 degrees before we left, knowing it would cool down pretty quickly.  But it was just blowing very hot air.

We are blessed that we have a separate air conditioner that serves downstairs.  Ken went down and turned it on.  We took our necessities to sleep down there.  It took a while to cool down, but we went to sleep.  We both were suffering from colds and coughs and had been up for many hours.  We were exhausted.

Before 8:00 the next morning, Ken called our faithful HVAC specialists- Alpine Air.  We have used the same company since literally day one of being in our home (when we moved in, our air conditioner wasn't working, and we called Alpine and they came right out.)  Brother Christensen has served us ever since.  He has since sold the company to his grandsons and retired.  Later that day it was the Grandpa - Brother Christensen who called us.  He said they had 31 calls before 8:00am and so his grandsons enlisted his services.  He came out that afternoon to assess the situation.  He said our unit was dead and we needed to replace it.  He also said they were swamped, and it would probably be next Monday before they could get to us. That was a whole week away! We geared up to wait and live in the basement.

But the very next day he called and scheduled us for 7:30 am on Wednesday!  Yea!  They were there promptly at 7:30am. and replaced our outside unit as well as the unit in the attic.

They had to cut a hole in the ceiling of our laundry room to install the new attic unit.  A couple of weeks later, someone came to repair that.

By about 1:00 pm, we had a working air conditioner.  We so appreciated them working us in earlier.  They said, "We have to take care of our faithful customers."  

They still have to come and replace insulation on the pipes in the attic.  They plan to do that when it is not so hot.  

But we find that this air conditioner works SO much better than our old one.  We keep having to turn it up because it is so cold.  

This experience made us SO much more grateful for air conditioning.