Hooray for haircuts and in person classes, Easyas!
Lynn, my own hair has not been cut since before Christmas of 2019! I never did get it cut before the pandemic. I indeed hope you are able to get a haircut (for both of us)! soon
Yes, thankfully we do have brand-new (as in bought last year by sadly being placed by the building's owner in an awful situation) AC's.
I may have shared part of this with all of you. I'll try to make this very long story as short as possible! is Pre pandemic in January of last year, the owner to this building out of the blue decided to replace all the doors and windows within the building. Our new windows, that we had zero say in or knowledge would be this type, have no removable slats the way our old windows did to where a window AC can be installed. The old AC's my Dad had actually purchased on his own years ago. One in the back room was his choice due to the heat of the first summer he lived here. The second was a replacement for an original unit (possibly here since the building was built in 1960) that died and the owner (not same owner as now) refused to replace. In other words, out of pocket, Dad had bought 2 new AC's for this apartment already.
We were told when the old window AC's were taken out that they would be replaced with new ones to go inside the new windows. Last Spring there was a weekend were it was almost 100. We had no AC and let me just say both Dad and I were definitely health affected!
At least with the cold, you can layer in clothes or add blankets. What ended up happening, I still can't believe this, was that ALL window (except for ours) of the old (and believe me the AC next door was most likely original to this building because it had a 30+ year tenant in it until he passed away) were re-installed through the walls! I am not kidding. This is bad enough in itself. As most of you may already know, window and wall AC's vent differently! Our old window AC instruction manual in black warning letters said to never install it through the wall! The owner did not seem to be fazed by that at all
Plus, for a good 3 months, our old AC's had been sitting (we had been led again to believed they would be replaced with new units and had been long thrown away) inside a filthy storage room in the basement during a pandemic!
I pray all of you already know it is never my intent to speak ill of anyone. I sincerely shared all this as a FYI to anyone renting to always, always get any promises of significance in writing at the time of they are promised from the owner!
Yep you guessed the end result, Dad and I had to purchase very expensive for us (through the wall AC's cost a TON more than window AC's) two brand new through the wall AC's. One "good" thing was that one of the workers went to Home Depot to pick them up for us and later two workers installed them at no charge to us. They did work amazingly well which lol they better have! Should God-willing we ever get to move, of course, these AC's will be staying and up the value of the apartment. Oh well, we are so Blessed to truly know this Summer we will be healthy and cool.
Thanks for listening, friends
