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[secretagentmoof]

The air conditioning for the upper floor broke about three weeks ago - compressor decided to short itself out - and the home warranty company fucked around and eventually decided "lolno" to paying, so fuck hellosuper.com. To add to the fun, the compressor uses one of the older refrigerants, which acts as a labor/supplies multiplier - and since the compressor alone would be about $1k before labor, we're considering putting in a heat pump. (The natural gas boiler is from 1975, and we're not sure what its life expectancy is.)

To add to the fun - it looks like the air conditioning is *massively* overspec'ed for the house - like, 2x what it should need. One of the guys who we had out just blandly speced the same size without mentioning it at all.

The first estimate we got was for $37k; I'm hoping the guy who just came out (and seemed very down to earth) will be less, but I suspect that between AC and the electrician it'd be $30k at a minimum. This will be rather cutting into my toy/entertainment budget for a good long while. (I'd very much like the long covid research to pan out so I could consider working again, even at part time.)

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[xeger]

FWIW, I ended up getting one of the mitsubishi ductless setups, and have been very happy with it for heat and cooling (and it was way, way cheaper than I'd be expecting/fearing).

[secretagentmoof]

our house is ductful and split into first floor/basement and second floor/attic; it seems that there's no easy way to just plunk down a single big unit, alas. And while the Mitsubishi units sound like everybody loves them and whatnot, they also run offa 240V and rewiring would be in order.

OTOH, maybe we just need to bite the bullet and do All The Rewiring (or at least, Much of The Rewiring)

[xeger]

FWIW - the installer handled all of that for me, and I'm still running off of the same 100A/120V incoming power service as before. It might be worth finding out what, if anything they'd actually need.