And I mean “Cool!” in two respects: first, that something great has happened; and second, in regards to the temperature of the apartment. The air conditioner repair guy came back this morning and fixed not just the machine he was supposed to, but also the one the moving company installed.

As mentioned before, the main machine leaked its freon and nitrogen gas reserves–as it turns out, a fitting had been left loose, and the gases had all escaped long before we moved in. He sealed the fitting and charged up the gases, and for the first time, the air conditioner actually works. And now that it does, I can note that it works really well. Sachi and I thought that the building makers had simply skimped and bought a really bad air conditioner. Had we thought to complain earlier, we could have avoided a lot of hot days in the living/dining/kitchen area.

While he was running some sort of vacuum test on the main unit, he took a look at Sachi’s air conditioner, the one that had been installed tilted to the right. He was not in any way responsible for that one, but just as a courtesy, he spent about twenty minutes working on it. It turns out that not only was the wall unit installed at an angle, but the tubing was done extremely poorly–the tubes inside the wrapped bundle leading outside were arranged such that the drainage tube had a notable upward slant, even though the whole bundle was level. Water was pooling inside the unit, and as a result, led to the entire inside of the machine being “sweaty.” Eventually it all dripped out onto the floor. So he unwrapped the bundle, reset the tubes.. and after five or six hours of running at full power, not a single drop has come out. Seems like that unit is fixed as well.

One of these days, the apartment will be perfect. We’ve still got the bath/laundry stink to deal with (likely due to evaporation in the pipes caused by the 24-hour bath-drying utility, which we can’t shut off), and those little flying insects are still massively infesting the apartment–likely breeding in the soil in Sachi’s potted plants. We have to re-pot the plants and then make sure that the bugs left flying around don’t get a chance to re-lay their eggs.