Saturday, May 23, 2015
I'm going to have the heat pump a/c at the country house replaced with a standard compressor-type a/c system. Piper is trying to talk me into choosing an evaporative system instead (also known as a "swamp cooler", not because they are used in swamps, but because they can smell like one). They are less expensive to install and less expensive to run, especially given the cost of electricity in the Mid-Hudson Valley.
However, the freakin' things don't work in high humidity! Yeah, they're great in Texas, or Arizona, and they've been used for centuries in the Middle East, but they simply don't work in areas where the humidity gets above 50%, maximum. Because, uh, duh, they depend on evaporation, which doesn't work well when the dew-point is 70 degrees. It's not often that high in the Mid-Hudson Valley - only on very hot days, which is exactly when it matters. Sheesh.
I've given up arguing with him. He tends to fall for every sales pitch. I've warned him over and over that you don't get information on which to base buying decisions from the guys selling things - you get information from actual users or disinterested parties. But he doesn't use the internet at all, except to follow "cookbook" directions for email, so he doesn't research things.
He says it's not the same thing as a swamp cooler at all, and he's sending me some brochures, and I've promised to look at them, but ....
Sheesh!
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1 comment:
Good luck trying to sell a house east of the Mississippi with a swamp cooler in it, but you already knew that.
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