I am not a scientist or an engineer.
- In fact I barely graduated from high school! When something around the house breaks or stops working, I don’t grab a tool box and check it out myself.
I am quite sure that regardless of what the problem is, my attempts to help will only make things worse. There are a host of local experts and handymen that can assist me, no matter what my domestic issue happens to be. However, when money is tight and I can’t afford to pay a guy $200 to come over and inspect my air conditioner, I have to get creative. Youtube is a great place to start, because I needed to find something like an Air Conditioning For Dummies tutorial. I am deeply thankful that someone out there took the time to make a laborious, three-hour long deep dive into my particular brand of air conditioner. This video was insanely long, but literally took apart an A/C unit piece by piece and explained what everything was, and what it did. I watched the entire video, and then took the metal housing off of my own A/C unit to see what I could find. Sadly, it was not something that I could fix. I doubt even the most seasoned HVAC export could have fixed it. Somehow a raccoon had gotten under the housing and into the delicate guts of the HVAC unit. There were shredded wires, blown fuses, missing pieces, and in the middle of it all there was a dead, flash-fried raccoon. No wonder the smell was so bad!