let me vent.

Are you surviving this heat? It’s BRUTAL out there. I want nothing to do with being outside, ever. We’ve been staying in the house and trying to limit the time we are outside as much as we can. The poor monkey, he can barely make it down the front stairs without starting to pant. Bulldogs are extremely heat sensitive and they can actual die from being out in the heat too long. That being said, we usually keep our house at a cool 71/70 degrees and Tuck has a personal fan that we put on him at night. (There is nothing worse than to waking up to him panting at 1:30am.) Sometimes we don’t even have to look at the thermostat, if Tucker starts panting we know it’s over 72degrees in the house. When we came home from our friend’s house last night, we were greeted by a panting dog. Weird, but there were fireworks and when he gets scared he also pants. (total princess). Finally we noticed that the thermostat was showing a temperature of 75 degrees. WTF?!

We turned it down a little to 70 and hoped it would kick on. No such luck. It just started getting hotter and hotter. Luke warm air was slowly coming out of the vent, I was sweating and there was an 80lb panting monkey lying next to me. RC went downstairs to the unit in the basement to assess the situation and he saw this:

ICE! How does that even happen? And he saw water build up on the unit and then water on the wall. (to the right, it looks like a shadow)

Awesome. Nothing like a brand new system that doesn’t work. Right?! So I did what any 27year old grown up would do, I called my Dad. He knows how this stuff works and we either needed to know how to temporarily fix it or if leaving it on would damage it more. Turns out, his advice was to turn it off and turn on the fan to melt the ice. It definitely helped with the air flow but by no means did I need a blanket to sleep nor was I comfortable. This morning, we called our contractor and they were awesome. They sent someone out today to fix it! He put in more freon. (sp?!) and the temperature in the house is slowly but surely dropping. I’m hoping that’s all it was, the technician seemed to think so but RC and my Dad both have some doubts. I guess time will tell?!

Situations like this make me anxious, what if this happened in 3 years? We would have to be shelling out money and time to get this fixed because it wouldn’t still be under the warranty. I now know why people are lifetime renters- so they don’t have to change air filters and carry around Freon.