Keep All Documentation (updated)

Great idea, eh?  I still have the paperwork for my toaster oven, for example.  All that stuff goes in a specific drawer.

So where is the documentation for the air conditioner on this 96° day?  No. Fucking. Clue.

Where are the screws for mounting the air conditioner?  Probably attached to the documentation and carefully packed so as not to ge lost when we moved from Stoughton to Middleboro.

Wonderful.

At least for the baby swing I have the documentation so I know what screws to buy and how to put it back together when the time comes.

Sigh…

I have plenty of screws around, so I may just end up figuring it out and locating some that will work.  This is ridiculous though.  Just like the baby swing, we undoubtedly were excrutiatingly careful about keeping the documentation and parts where they would be easy to find, in an obvious place, when needed again.

On a related note, it looks like we’re going to put the AC in my office, rather than the bedroom.  The bedroom gets cooler easier than the office and ends up surprisingly comfortable.  The office does okay, but has restricted airflow and of course the electronics to heat things up.  It’s also not bad as a retreat if the bedroom, or rest of the place during the day, gets unbearable or a break is needed.  Plus I need to close the door a lot anyway, which makes lack of AC worse.  That and we can’t really close the bedroom door if we want to hear the kids or have them be able to get to us readily.

Update:

I got the air conditioner mounted, sort of.  There may have been parts that would have mounted it differently in this window than in the window in Stoughton.  Or maybe not.  The main thing that holds it is a single screw above the middle of the unit, into the frame of the window that closes against it.  That’s all I used, but it required tearing apart the closet to get at the toolboxes to find an ancient package of assorted sheet metal screws, one of several such packages I bought at a dollar store 15 or 20 years ago.  I like having the toolboxes accessible, and now they are.  Actually, one of them is supposed to be in the van.  I started a project eons ago in which I divided up the tools into a couple boxes that would stay in the house, a box that would go in the car, and a toolbag that would and did go in the truck.  Somehow the car got a couple sets of things like ratchet wrench set, but never the full box.  Currently the truck tools are in the car.  Need to take care of that, along with clearing out the Sentra the rest of the way and organizing trunk items at the back of the van.  But I digress.

What I was going to say is that even though it’s not going to fall, man is the AC unit loud.  It can vibrate just enough, on top of its inherent noise, I really won’t be able to hear anyone in the rest of the house.  Perhaps it would vibrate less if I could find the part I’m sure mounts in between the inner and outer windows for the unit to rest on.  Oh well.

Back to work.  The girls are off swimming.  If I can finish the project I am on in time, I’ll reward myself by joining them.

Posted by on 06/27 at 09:16 AM

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