The AC guys wrapped up their work and had me sign-off on the paperwork about 10 minutes ago.
I got out the ladder and shoved the old remote thermometer up into the vent to get a read on the temperature.
The temperature coming out of was 64 degrees. It has dropped down to 62 since they left.
The house thermometer in the hallway along with the one in the kitchen have both dropped a degree.
One interesting thing is that when the blower would kick-on before, it would just about suck the air-filter up into the duct. This one wasn't nearly as powerful. I mean I could hear it come on and see if "grab" onto the air-filter, but not in the same manner.
It would appear that the blower as a whole isn't quite as powerful as the old one and just doesn't pump the same amount of air output as the old one.
However, some of that might change when they re-do the duct work next week. I would guess the following:
#1. The old ducts aren't sealed well to the unit or the wall.
#2. That the old ducts were put in inefficiently, thus the air coming out isn't as cold as it could be.
#3. That the old ducts might actually be bigger than the ones that are going to be installed. I would guess that smaller ducts would mean a higher output of airflow, because it would add pressure to the amount of air being pushed.
Anyway, the outside unit is about 1/2 as noisy as the old one, which is nice. I noticed that I tend to have the TV up louder than I normally do when the outside unit is on. I don't think that will be the case anymore.
I hope the house is nice a chilly when Gina gets home.
I need to run a few errands.
Oh yeah, I am going to crawl up into the attic either tonight or in the morning (ie when it isn't insanely hot) and take some pics of the new inside unit.
I can't wait to compare July's electric bill against last years.
Laterz.
The new HVAC is being installed today.
I originally thought it was going to take maybe like 3-4 hours.
The guy told me "This will take about 6 hours." that was at around 9:00 give or take 10 minutes.
However, it apparently took them longer than they thought it would to remove the old attic unit.
He apparently had to cut the old one in half to remove it, it was that big.
The new unit looked a lot smaller.
I had the notion to take pictures of the new unit, for comparison to the carcass of the old unit, a few minutes too late. They have already take it up into the attic to.
I got some pics of the old unit.
I will upload them later.
There is a serial number on the old unit, maybe I will be able to find out some background information for comparison to the new unit I bought and get a better guess on the difference in energy efficiency. Then again, it is an old unit, pretty sure made before the whole 'Energy Star' energy rating stuff, but who knows.
Back to the grind.
Laterz
