Air-conditioning on hot summer day

The air-conditioner has been down for sometime, spewing warm air that is good only for winter. With occasional use of the other room to watch TV and on this hot summer day, the room can be a cooking oven even if the windows are wide open and the temperature out is equally hot.

The air-conditioner needed repair or maintenance. The landlord checked out air-conditioner the first occasion several days ago, thinking only new coolant would suffice to restore for the piping but later all drained dry and not able to generate cooling air at all.

Today, two repairmen were deployed to check it out again. This time it was found that a piping or a conduit was dislocated due to the degenerative bolt causing leakage of coolant - appeared more like some con job from before. Requiring replacement of a new bolt, they went out to search for a fitting one but only one alike was found as one of them explained. Soldering was needed; the burning fire actually made a shallow dent on a part of the wall behind the conduits. They had to touch up with cement finish on that particular spot. During the repair, I took a few shots as shown below. One of them spoke in his native dialect that I was taking photographic evidences of the repair. The repairmen took nearly three hours to get it all set; the repair cost me RMB150.00.

The air-conditioner is working now and hopefully for a long time.


Jeremy
Shanghai
July 20th 2008