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thewayneNo, what's that other word? NOT.
There's a reason why we try to keep libraries on the cold side. It helps control mold and insects.
When winter ended, and we didn't have much of one, we noticed that the library was warmer than it should be. We called the HVAC people for a service call. They couldn't fix it, and the news was very bad. I don't know what the exact diagnosis was, but it was to the extent that basically it would require a major fund allocation and practically an RFP to fix it. It took MONTHS before the money was properly shuffled and people could come out and do the actual fix.
That started this week! Yay?
We have a supply closet next to our kitchen, both of them pretty small rooms. The supply closet has the ladder that goes up to the roof. Thursday I'm going in to the kitchen, and one of the HVAC techs is in the closet, they're lowering tools and stuff down on a rope. I ask him how's it going. He tells me they're pretty much done for the day, they're pumping down the new compressor with a vacuum pump overnight and it should be good Friday.
WAAAH?
Turns out that the only problem was a failed compressor. Something had failed inside it - a winding, whatever that is - and it had lost all its coolant.
The never-sufficiently cursed original tech had completely bollixed the initial diagnosis and we had been for FOUR(?) MONTHS with underperforming AC! Being able to recognize a failed compressor that had dumped all its coolant should be a pretty basic diagnosis, this dude really needs to go back to school!
Friday's library temperature?
SEVENTY DEGREES.
Peak temperature during the height of summer? 84ish.
Today was the first day in three+ months that I wore my genuine Norwegian Wool Cardigan.
I am not happy. That was a badly botched evaluation. I don't have a clue how to look for damage to our collection, no idea if four months at 80f may have damaged it.
There's a reason why we try to keep libraries on the cold side. It helps control mold and insects.
When winter ended, and we didn't have much of one, we noticed that the library was warmer than it should be. We called the HVAC people for a service call. They couldn't fix it, and the news was very bad. I don't know what the exact diagnosis was, but it was to the extent that basically it would require a major fund allocation and practically an RFP to fix it. It took MONTHS before the money was properly shuffled and people could come out and do the actual fix.
That started this week! Yay?
We have a supply closet next to our kitchen, both of them pretty small rooms. The supply closet has the ladder that goes up to the roof. Thursday I'm going in to the kitchen, and one of the HVAC techs is in the closet, they're lowering tools and stuff down on a rope. I ask him how's it going. He tells me they're pretty much done for the day, they're pumping down the new compressor with a vacuum pump overnight and it should be good Friday.
WAAAH?
Turns out that the only problem was a failed compressor. Something had failed inside it - a winding, whatever that is - and it had lost all its coolant.
The never-sufficiently cursed original tech had completely bollixed the initial diagnosis and we had been for FOUR(?) MONTHS with underperforming AC! Being able to recognize a failed compressor that had dumped all its coolant should be a pretty basic diagnosis, this dude really needs to go back to school!
Friday's library temperature?
SEVENTY DEGREES.
Peak temperature during the height of summer? 84ish.
Today was the first day in three+ months that I wore my genuine Norwegian Wool Cardigan.
I am not happy. That was a badly botched evaluation. I don't have a clue how to look for damage to our collection, no idea if four months at 80f may have damaged it.
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Date: 2022-09-24 01:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-09-24 03:25 am (UTC)Unfortunately we don't record that.
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Date: 2022-09-24 05:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-09-24 06:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-09-24 03:42 pm (UTC)I am too lowly a fish to have any influence on decisions such as those.
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Date: 2022-09-24 04:04 pm (UTC)Perhaps you can use your limited influence to say "if we have trouble again, that tech is barred from coming back and trying again."
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Date: 2022-09-24 04:11 pm (UTC)I don't remotely have that level of authority. And I doubt my boss would notice.
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Date: 2022-09-24 11:53 pm (UTC)That was beyond stupid of that first guy. WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hugs, Jon