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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (107202)	9/28/2005 6:45:18 PM
From: Naomi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

I don't know if there was a brand name back then, but it was designed and put in by Way Engineering Company in 1939,and they are still an established business in Houston, I think, but don't think they are doing A/C/H now. It was installed as a twelve ton unit, but when we bought it there was only one compressor running and I let another A/C/H put in a smaller compressor which only lasted less than two years and we have kept six tons running and it has been comfortable for us. At times, the windows are frosted. Our engineer has talked about changing it out, but that would entail dismanteling the unit and it is huge and takes up quite a bit of our basement. They also put in a sump pump for its drainage and we have had to replace the motor on it twice when we found the basement flooded. There is a fan out on top of the patio to the quarters which forces water back and forth and so the unit is water cooled for air. The highest bill we have had in the twenty-six years we have lived here is $750.00 for the month of August and then it falls way down again as the weather gets cooler. That is much cheaper to run than the new ones being installed. The lowest price we could find to put in what would be needed was a $30,000.00 bid and the highest was $40,000.00. Our home is the oldest one in the section where we live and I am sure we would have to put in some new ductwork as it has been in the house 66 years. We have neighbor friends who moved a few years ago and put in a new unit so they could sell their house for a better price and spent almost that and were shocked. Most of the houses around us are 4300 sq. ft., which ours is, or larger. We might be able to find an energy company that has better rates, but have not searched that possibility yet. We have just stuck with the original one and paid our bill. If we stay here will have to do that or my husband will have to continue to work longer rather than retire and he is thirteen years past retirement age now, but he loves what he is doing.