Air

I went along to my local air conditioning expert on Friday. The system has not been working since some point in the winter.

I could have done with it recently because we have been having really hot weather. I know we are in the spring/early summer period, nevertheless, we have had no rain for about a month, and we have had temperatures in the thirties. That is unusual in the South East of England but if last year is anything to go by, it is becoming the norm. The grass is dying off and I have to keep a sprinkler going in the garden.


Part of Our Garden Last Summer

I just looked back at my service record and I see that I had my aircon completely refurbished on 28th June 2001. On that occasion I had it brought up to the new EEC standard for eco-friendly refrigerant. That meant that I had to have new pipes, seals and various parts. You can’t just re gas the system with the new fluid because the old seals won’t take it. So the total cost was £796.36!! Not cheap.

I hope it’ll be cheaper this time round. I suppose there is some leak somewhere that will need fixing…..anyway we will see.

I’ve had a few problems with cooling and aircon over the last few years, but more about that at some other time.