On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 3:21:42 PM UTC-6, Julie Bove wrote:
> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
> ...
> > On 7/19/2015 9:36 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
> >
> >> Got my hair cut the other day. Hairdresser has a shop at the side of
> >> her unACed home. It's a newer home and quite fancy looking. She does
> >> have AC in the shop and she has used it. But not that day. Client
> >> before her was practically begging her to turn it on and she would not.
> >> Had my hair not seriously needed a bang trim, I would have just left.
> >> It was miserable.
> >
> > Had you (and maybe others) walked out, she would get the hint in the
> > future. AC as for the comfort of customers as well as the workers. Being
> > cheap does not always pay off.
>
> Yes, but I don't know where else I would have gone. I am thinking back to
> all of the other salons I have been to in the past and none had *any* AC.
> >
> >>
> >> Today I saw people asking on Facebook if there were any churches with
> >> AC. They got no response.
> >
> > People often go to the movies when hot, or the mall.
>
> The mall isn't particually cool with all of the skylights and the theater
> doesn't always put on the AC. We did try the movies a week ago but the
> movie that we went to (Ted 2) was so disgusting, we walked out.
>
> >> Only now do I not feel sick and
> >> headachy because I *finally* got the new swamp cooler working.
> >> Apparently I had overfilled it but there is no way to tell how much
> >> water is actually in there. I am now just erring on the less side.
> >> This one won't get damaged if the water runs out. It just won't cool.
> >> I blasted about a gallon of water out of the beast in 3 hours last night
> >> and only managed to raise the humidity to 43%.
> >
> > I still don't get the swamp cooler thing. 43% humidity is the maximum I
> > want to see in the heat. A portable AC can be installed in any room with
> > any window and it actually removes the heat to the outside and reduced
> > humidity to a comfortable level. A properly sized AC will get the
> > temperature down at least 20 degrees below outside, maybe more. Our
> > bedroom is 70, the rest of the house is about 73.
>
> They can not be easily installed in *these* windows. We've been through
> this before. They are very large, very tall, sliding ones. And now they can
> not be installed at all after I had Mr. Handyman put the hardware cloth over
> all of them. That is necessary for the cats.

Ditch the cats...who needs 'em? Bill of expense.
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