Good grief you folks are cooking around here I need to visit more often. It takes a few mins to catch up on reading the post.
Earl,
Try changing the filters. A lot of the time when an a/c is not cooling properly it is due to the filters not being clean. If that is not the problem then your a/c units outside are getting too hot to recover the house temp. You need to get a water hose and wash the units down. They collect dust in the coils and this stops the effieciencty and the production process. It would not hurt to plant somthing green beside the unit (not too colse) that would shield the units from heat this time of year. If you wash the units be sure to turn off the breaker to avoid possile shock. They should be protected from that but since I can't look at your units it would be safer to power them down. Nothing special to do on start up just turn them back on, even if they are wet.
I wash mine down everyweek this time of year and change the sprinkler system heads by the units to wet them down in the afternoon. It is all done by automatically.
Kristen,
I don't know if you ever saw our big home in Keller, but I PROMISE you I can cool your house down and do it effeciently. The largest electric bill we ever had was @ $188.00 for the month if I remember right. I do know we never had one over $200.00. I can hang icesickles in your house if you want them, promise!!! One thing I did in all my years in construction was I studied very hard on building an effiecent home.
Bernie,
The formation is really done live. They did that at an airshow here several years ago, the news carried it for days. The pilots even said they were concerned because they were so close in the letter "A". Is there any room left in Aussie land? Isn't fuel real expensive over there?
