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Originally posted by James 3528
We were so poor , my daddy would come in the night before Christmas and paint my feet brown and ask me the next mornig how I liked my new shoes?

you sure that was paint.

first time i had ac was after i joined the airforce after tech school my first duty assignment the barracks had ac james you kill me.

We were so poor , my daddy would come in the night before Christmas and paint my feet brown and ask me the next mornig how I liked my new shoes?

We didn't get one till I was about 7, we had a window shaker that dad brought home from work on a job he did at the time.. It only worked for a week, then winter came..

We didn't have A/C till I was 12. Well, would of had it 2 years earlier if Dad wouild of taken the time to install it. Old Willie stayed in the box in back of the house for 2 years. Once dad installed it, Friends used to give me crap cuz we had central air. Most other didn't have a/c or just a small window shaker.

We had a couple relic window shakers in the early 60s. Around 1970 Dad got tired of getting warm downstairs so he went to Sears and bought the biggest one he could. Of course the salesman didn't talk about proper sizing. The sucker was a 2.5 ton, probably twice the size. We could keep the downstairs mid 60s in mid 90s weather! Of course had to run a dehumidifier to keep Mom's piano happy. Had to turn it off when we had dinner in the dining room, would blow us into the next room! Drove by the old place a couple of years ago, that unit was still there nearly 35 years later!

Originally posted by small change
It was old it was Brown and it was ugly

It was 1969 and I was 14 and I found it in the attic

I remember some things about it

It was very heavy, when I dragged it down the stairs and put it in my bedroom window, I remember stuffing towels around it to get it to fit

The lights dimmed in my room when I turned it on

I remember My Dad wasn't very happy when he saw it and pitched a bitch about it

That sounds like something my middle son would do

Grew up in England so we never needed AC. My first AC was a heat pump in my apartment 8 years ago. My house has the original 1978 Heat Controller split that's probably running at about 3 SEER, but still running.

It was old it was Brown and it was ugly

It was 1969 and I was 14 and I found it in the attic

I remember some things about it

It was very heavy, when I dragged it down the stairs and put it in my bedroom window, I remember stuffing towels around it to get it to fit

The lights dimmed in my room when I turned it on

I remember My Dad wasn't very happy when he saw it and pitched a bitch about it

I do not have a/c in my home now had it in a trailer that we owned years ago but that is because my wife took a used one I was trying to sell and made me buy it

It was a package unit and since she used to help me she knew how to do most of the install

I got a call a little after lunch one day and she wanted to know where the 24 volt wires hooked up at on the thermostat when I asked her why she said ¡§you know that a/c you was trying to sell?¡¨ ¡§Well you just bought it!¡¨

As for my new house (not new just new to me)
I really don¡¦t want a/c but because we are putting in a h/p we will have it by default ƒ¼

The way I figure it is I have 2 young children and don¡¦t see any reason they should be able to stay inside because it is too hot outside especially when we have a pool in the back yard

It was funny that I posted about our old apartment. My brother-in-law who lives down that way said that they made the old place into an Italian Restuarant. I bet they have central air in it now!!

I'll have to take the War Dept down there for a dinner. They would probably get upset if we went there for a roll in the hay.

House I grew up in did not have a/c...don't remember the barracks having a/c...might have just don't remember...so after I got married and moved off base into a trailer with my wife....1984.

We got air conditioning in our home just about the time that The Wonderfull World Of Disney came out in color

Havet't yet. Only a window shaker in the bedroom. AND DO I HEAR ABOUT IT.

going to put it in this year. My wife is threatening to sell the house move to Aptos Calif (on the coast with fog). And I can just put up with the commute.

1989 i was 23 living in an apt i brought a window thumper 6000 btu armana from an old lady. I brought 2x3 and two pieces of plywood and some wheels, I made a stand in the living room and the person below banged on the ceiling when I was sawing wood at 7pm so i stomped sround for 30 mins anyway i wheeled this thing from the living room to the bedroom as needed on the deck
those were the days

Originally posted by rimek
1972- a Carrier, complete with swearing, cursing installers-

Nothing ever changes

Had it in my car 3 years before I came across a really old Chrysler Airtemp unit 1982 for our apartment. I installed my parents central in 1984. As payment he gave me his 10,000 wall unit which replaced the 6,000 Chrysler. It sat over the sill of the balcony door. Cooled everything.

I have not had a set of gauges on my father central since 1984 and he is way too cheap to get someone else to work on it.

My dad bought a big used window shaker in 67.

We moved 2 years later, and the dang thing wouldn't fit any of the windows in the new place, it 3 more years till we got a/c again.

I'm in this trade largely because of the faltering central a/c our house had when I was a kid. It was one of the first tract house developments with central air (early 60's)...it used a Lennox condenser with the slanted front and a compressor that sounded like a semi-hermetic. About ten years in it kept eating compressors and the guy who'd come out to replace them was a self employed man who had plenty of patience with my constant barrage of questions.

Even as a kid I was curious how that thing worked and once I found out how, it piqued my curiosity more. One thing led to another and now I spend my days in a central plant looking after chillers and boilers and air handlers and VAV's and etc.

My grandparents house always had A/C for as long as I remember.
Dad's place had a window unit from the early 80's on (still does).
Mom's place had a window unit from the mid 80's or so. When Mom and I moved we eventually got central installed (mid 90's), man how did we live so long with out it!

Now that I'm on my own I'm back to a window unit in the bedroom Eventually I'll get around to remodeling the basement and installed duct and a heat pump.

P.S. Dad was an appliance repairman for 35 or so years. Switched over to HVAC service around 8 years ago, still does appliances occasionally. Needless to say he usually had a decent supply of window shakers, microwaves, dishwashers, and laundry equipment.

1972- a Carrier, complete with swearing, cursing installers-

What I can remember

About 12 years old.