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Quandry about a/c repair
I have these exorbitantly expensive built in through the wall a/c units.
They are so expensive mainly because they are supposed to go on and on and on (and on) They have virtually no features and are exceptionally old fashioned but the replacement units (made by the same manufacturer or, - only, - one other which will fit into these sleeves) are identical and equally old fashioned There is a company around me which specialises in coming out free and telling you that you need new units and that they will sell you new units for some extraordinary amount of money. There used to be a guy in our building who would service them EITHER cheaply by doing a quick clean job on them so that 13,500 BThU units which actually give out about 6000 can give out possibly as much as 9000. OR he could do what he called a more appropriate job which we were putting off which involved taking the hwole slip-in unit downstairs and steam-cleaning something underneath them to restore the whole functionality of the unit, which we really need He has departed for various health reasons. Now I have found a new company which charges a call out charge to clean the units which doesn't actually seem too expensive and an even smaller additional charge to do additional units. But they seem to think that the cleaning process will take about a half hour a unit. Does anyone know how you steam-clean one of these units PROPERLY, which is the difficult bit to steam clean on the underside, how important it is to do this to get a 9000 unit back to 13,500 and how long it should take to do this (by someone who does this every day)? I am reluctant to pay this company the call out charge merely to be told that I need new units because they want to sell me them. (I have been caught out that way once before when I called the company with the largest ad in the yellow pages only to find that they put this in BECAUSE it imparts credibility to a cowboy who will come along and spin you a yarn about needing a new unit refurbished by him) |
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