Air conditioner is broken and it's hot as hell

[Ika]

Originally posted by: NanoStuff
As much cold water as possible with maximum surface area.

Something like industrial sized baking pans stacked on top of each other with a bit of water in each, then get a plain old fan and blow air through them.

hah, watercooling, rehashed for your apartment.

 

[Zolty]

I go to work. Free AC 😀

 

[Rage187]

Mine busted a few weeks ago, 7 days and $650 later it was fixed.

 

[spaceghost21]

Fall asleep in the fridge.

 

[deftron]

Go to a bar (with AC) and have a few beers



Come home buzzed enough that you can crash
without AC in your house

 

[PrinceofWands]

Originally posted by: Eeezee

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Buy more AC. Nothing matters until it's cool. Nothing.

If it's over 70, give up food, clothing, cars, jobs, tv, internet, phones, movies, alcohol, etc. Sell it all off until you have working AC.

But then again, I'm kinda biased.

Whoa now...

Everyone keeps their unit set to about 78. That's the cool zone.

Air conditioner has been working fine now for awhile, this thread wasn't as funny as I had hoped 😛

Our house temp is kept below 70. Always. Period. In this house, in apartments, everywhere else. I've had to buy as many as 5 AC units before, in rental places, in order to maintain that temp, but that's ok. Temps must not rise above 70. Bad things happen to Kristin above that level.

Seriously though, most people I know with heat pumps or other forms of total house thermal control keep their place between 68 and 72. A few go as high as 75. With window AC's people just turn them on full when it gets above 75. *shrug* at least that's all I've ever seen.

 

[eldorado99]

Set the oven to cold.

 

[Siva]

I don't have an AC. I guess the best resort is going to work in the day, and waiting for the sun to go down to come home.

Being poor sucks

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: eldorado99
Set the oven to cold.

Good idea, I should have tried that actually

 

[walkur]

use a fan and walk around naked...

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: kyzen
Geez, no creative answers from people in college (or reliving their college days)?

Two years ago the AC I had sucked, but I couldn't afford a new one. I ended up getting a couple of 1 gallon plastic milk and juice jugs, filling them up with water, and putting them in my freezer. I then went out and bought the biggest fan I could get for under $20. Every night I'd put the frozen jugs/bottles in front of the fan, and turn it on. It didn't help much, but if you were in front of the fan, or in the room the fan was in, there was a noticeable temperature drop.

In the morning before work/classes I'd toss the bottles back into the freezer so they were as frozen as possible by the evening. At one point I had 4 bottles, I'd use 2 one night, put them in the freezer, use the other two the next night, and cycle like that so they would freeze completely through.

Remembering what I learned from my college days, I'd suggest that your solution actually heats up the apartment. It's like leaving the freezer door open, only in slow motion.