"Roy" > wrote in message
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On Saturday, July 23, 2016 at 10:03:57 PM UTC-6, Julie Bove wrote:
> "Jeßus" > wrote in message
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> > On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 15:04:57 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
> > wrote:
> >
> >>On Saturday, July 23, 2016 at 7:49:15 AM UTC-10, KenK wrote:
> >>> I'm having my own private high heat this past month. About 6/15 The
> >>> 100K+
> >>> AZ town in live near had a week-long heat wave, around 115. Then it
> >>> returned to normal - high 90s, low 100s, once in a while low teens.
> >>> Out
> >>> here in the farmland where I live, aboutc 2 miles west of town, it's
> >>> consistently been around 15 degrees above theirs since then. They
> >>> report
> >>> 100 on the radio weather report, 1 get 115. Yesterday it was 113
> >>> there,
> >>> 132 here. I'm afraid this is going to last all summer. This has never
> >>> happened before - the temperature in both places was always close to
> >>> the
> >>> same. Must be a very local phenomena, I've seen no mention in the
> >>> newspaper. My usual source of cooling, evaporative cooler, just blows
> >>> hot
> >>> air - the water in it nust be too hot to cool the air. Very strange,
> >>> Very
> >>> miserable.
> >>>
> >>> No, it's not a defective thermometer, all three of my outside
> >>> thermometers agree.
> >>
> >>Check your water level. If it's not going down, your water pump is not
> >>turning on. It's either the switch or the pump that needs to be looked
> >>at.
> >
> > I was about to say it must be high in humdity in AZ (which renders
> > evap coolers useless) but I just checked the weather and humidity is
> > only 16% ATM, so it's not that.
> > https://www.google.com.au/search?q=a...DMns0ATF656IBw
>
> My old one quit blowing the water out. Not sure why. Worked like a fan but
> the water was never getting onto the cooling pad.
Does nothing ever work in your house? From door locks to garage door
openers...nothing but problems it seems.
Maybe you need a maintenance man to go along with the gardener/grounds
keeper.
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I don't have a gardener and never had a grounds keeper. What I have now is a
handy man. He does it all.
At one point, Zillow assigned numbers to houses in terms of quality of
construction. They no longer do. Used to be 1 being the worst and 10 being
the best. Mine was 4 as was my friend's in Shoreline. My parent's and bro's
were a 6. I kept plugging random addresses in until I found some 10's. None
in this area. I did find a very few in Seattle. Huge places. Likely custom
built. And 4 was the worst that I ever saw listed.
Both of my swamp coolers were inexpensive. None of the ones I looked at got
very good reviews and the last one I bought got very mixed ones. Those who
got working ones must have gotten very lucky. Mine worked well only a very
few times. I doubt that I will buy another. Unless someone manages to make
one that isn't prone to problems.