Man my kids rooms are messy! They were still hot and came into our room to sleep on the floor for three nights. Aparently our room was the coolest.
People had always said what a great idea the home warranty is but I just never wanted to spend the money. Well of course stupidity catches up to you. That or you kinda figure a 10 year old air conditioner is bound to go out sooner rather than later. Well that is what happened to us. At first we heard a knocking sound and at one point it got so bad the kids thought it sounded like Jurassic Park when the T-rex is coming. They were freaked out a little :) So we had a guy in the ward come out. Turns out our fan blades had become separated and were banging around. So $275 later we had a new fan. The next day... the compressor blows requiring a whole new air conditioner unit! Now if any of you have never been in the market for a new air conditioner you may like to know that they are upwards of $5000! Again, we Davis' may not be like the rest of you either in that we don't have a spare $5000 lying around that we want to use on an air conditioner so on the credit card it went. Hooray! My dad asked if we were going to wait untilthe spring to have it replaced. I don't understand why that would have even been an option seeing at is was going to cost us just as much in the springtime as it would in September. If we lived pretty much anywhere else in this great country we may have been willing to wait until spring to shell out such an expense, but seeing as it is going to be hot here until October we wanted it done ASAP.
So where does the home warranty fit in... at the same time my AC went out my neighbor down the street was having the same issue, but she has a home warranty so for the budget price of $45 she had her AC fixed! AUUGH isn't stupidity great? So if any of you home owners have wrestled with the idea of a home warranty let me be the stupid one and go and get one. Save yourself $4955!
If there was a positive in all this it is that we did have a way to pay for it, we don't have two air conditioning units, and this new air conditioner is supposed to save us 25-30% on our cooling bills. We'll see .
