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| Do you enjoy the delights of AC in these awful summer months? |
| Of course I have AC (but I still hate summer). |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| We have air-con but it's a battle royale between my wife and I to turn it on, off, up or down. I need it. She wants to save money. |
my wife is always cold and turns it off just when i start to get comfortable. I wait 3 minutes and turn it on again. She waits 10 minutes and turns it off and then hides the bloody remote control. I find it and then sit on the damn thing until I'm comfortable. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 2:47 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| We have air-con but it's a battle royale between my wife and I to turn it on, off, up or down. I need it. She wants to save money. |
my wife is always cold and turns it off just when i start to get comfortable. I wait 3 minutes and turn it on again. She waits 10 minutes and turns it off and then hides the bloody remote control. I find it and then sit on the damn thing until I'm comfortable. |
Ha. We should start a club.
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 2:53 am Post subject: |
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[quote="indytrucks"]
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| Every summer is the same thing. |
i reckon this summer is a bit worse than the previous 2.
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| I *beep* hate summer in this country. |
winter too, very cold, lethal ice all over the pavements, and you can't escape endless flu.
Spring - yellow dust storms, summer uncomfortably humid, and autumn dry cold winds. The climate is not pleasant in K.
And..yep, aircon is left on all night and evening everyday now and my apartment is still like an oven. |
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krats1976
Joined: 14 May 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 2:54 am Post subject: |
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These days, I keep my house a degree short of frigid. Tomorrow I'm gonna put a sign on the door that says, "Welcome to the Igloo."
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Gee thanks, planet-killer.  |
You're most welcome. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go unpack my sweaters.  |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:41 am Post subject: |
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This is the first time I've had aircon in Korea, it's sweet. Feel like produce in the cooler.
How much does it cost to run an air con? The power bills? It's only this month and waiting for the power bill, no idea what it will be....
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:44 am Post subject: |
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We have. Minimal usage. Only when ... most .. urgent ...
Doing our small part karmickally, NOT to speed up global warming  |
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pet lover
Joined: 02 Jan 2004
Location: not in Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:50 am Post subject: |
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I have a/c, but whoever took off with the remote left it set on 70 and turbo. I find anything below 75 to be really quiet chilly, so I am constantly turning it on and off. I leave it on all night since I don't like to wake up constantly to shut it off, but I sleep in pajamas under a polar fleece blanket with two dogs snuggled up to me as closely as possible.
I know they make universal remotes for TVs and VCRs, but do they make them for a/c units??? |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:57 am Post subject: |
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| pet lover wrote: |
I have a/c, but whoever took off with the remote left it set on 70 and turbo. I find anything below 75 to be really quiet chilly, so I am constantly turning it on and off. I leave it on all night since I don't like to wake up constantly to shut it off, but I sleep in pajamas under a polar fleece blanket with two dogs snuggled up to me as closely as possible.
I know they make universal remotes for TVs and VCRs, but do they make them for a/c units??? |
Pet Lover, just call the A/S centre of your brand, give them your model # and tell them you need a new remote. ("pet ate the original for breakfast") I've had to do this many times. Once tenants packed two of them with their things when they moved out, and then I lost one all by myself. |
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 7:18 am Post subject: |
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I'm without at home, and only got a fan two days ago (been under deadline and too busy to go shopping). I've been spending as much time as possible at my office, which has AC.
I really do hate this weather, and will get AC for next year in the fall. I'll slog through this; penance for something I did, I'm sure. |
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pegpig
Joined: 10 May 2005
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 7:30 am Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
| SuperHero wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
| We have air-con but it's a battle royale between my wife and I to turn it on, off, up or down. I need it. She wants to save money. |
my wife is always cold and turns it off just when i start to get comfortable. I wait 3 minutes and turn it on again. She waits 10 minutes and turns it off and then hides the bloody remote control. I find it and then sit on the damn thing until I'm comfortable. |
Ha. We should start a club.
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I think it's a rather large club. Over time a compromise sets in. My wife's Korean, so naturally she likes it a little on the warm side. One summer I was at the in-laws and they had the A/C set at 28. 28?!?! What's the point of an A/C when you have it set at 28?
Gradually over time I got used to it being a little warmer than I used to like and she's gotten used to it being a little cooler than she was used to. Now, we're living in Canuckville and for the most part the temp's not a problem. Time.
How many friggin' teachers are on board here? Aircon?!?! Jeez louise! |
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:21 am Post subject: |
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| indytrucks wrote: |
Every summer is the same thing. I try to rationalize spashing out on an airconditioner, convince myself that since I'm usually gone for most of the summer I can stick out the remaining months with just fan power, then curse my cheap indecision.
It's no different this time. I *beep* hate summer in this country. |
Yep! Same boat! I DO have one of those faux-air-con units (the one that's a fan and you put plastic bottles of ice in it to cool the air). It works for a couple of hours...use it before I go to sleep.
I'm pretty lucky in that my apt has a great breeze for most of the afternoon and evening. Highest temp: 31. Right now...29. I can deal with it.
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Dawn
Joined: 06 Mar 2004
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The bedroom is well air-conditioned. The rest of the apartment is not. Temp in the living room/kitchen hasn't dropped below 32 in nearly a month, and was 36 degrees at 10:30 last night. Yes, due to the number of south-facing windows in this place, it actually gets hotter inside than outside. 
Needless to say, we're basically living in the bedroom. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Dawn wrote: |
The bedroom is well air-conditioned. The rest of the apartment is not. Temp in the living room/kitchen hasn't dropped below 32 in nearly a month, and was 36 degrees at 10:30 last night. Yes, due to the number of south-facing windows in this place, it actually gets hotter inside than outside.
Needless to say, we're basically living in the bedroom. |
If there were any home that needed a second A/C more than yours, Dawn, then I have yet to see it. 36� at night?? Amazing what people will endure. But don't get me wrong, I've been in precisely the same situation you're in. And I do mean precisely: sleeping, studying, working, watching TV, eating, XXX-ing, and relaxing all within the four walls of a small bedroom. The shortest trips out of that room, to the bathroom or the kitchen to forage for food & drink, was to enter hostile enemy territory.
In the early '90s I went from no A/C at all for about 3 years (and fully assuming I'd never own one in my life) to one A/C for my bedroom, and then a second A/C the following year for the living room. Life had simply gotten too wretched during those summers. A few weeks I could handle, but when it got to be MONTHS without relief, forget it.
Life's too short for such long misery-endurance tests every summer, living like a prisoner, a caged animal in my own bedroom. Pathetic. I remember how my friends initially thought two A/Cs was the very height of wasteful extravagance, and how they all changed their minds after 10 minutes in my living room with the A/C turned off and just a fan blowing. The thing was, none of them could truly apprehend how bloody unlivable my home was without experiencing it, because their understanding of 'oppressively hot' was based on their own much-cooler homes. Mine was a raging inferno by comparison, worse than a greenhouse for any kind of plant would die even with all windows open, and you would no sooner keep a pet there as lock one in a roasting car with the windows rolled up.
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| How many friggin' teachers are on board here? Aircon?!?! Jeez louise! |
I don't understand what point you're making. You didn't expect many teachers to have air-conditioners? |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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At work: ON ALL the time.
At home: Fan and AC, close the door, one hour setting, then it turns itself off.
Summer? What summer?  |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| I care more about good heating in the winter. Freezing is much worse than roasting. I don't complain so much about summer. It's my favorite season. I just can't stand to freeze in the winter. |
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